HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008-12-05 TPD-PUBLICPURPOSESUBDIV
PLANNING COMMISSION
COUNTY OF HAWAII
HEARING TRANSCRIPT
DECEMBER 5, 2008
A regularly advertised hearing on the PLANNING DIRECTOR INITIATED AMENDMENT
TO CHAPTERS 23 AND 25 REGARDING PUBLIC PURPOSE SUBDIVISIONS was called to
order at 10:28 a.m. in the Office of theProsecuting Attorney, Conference Room, 655 Kilauea
Avenue, Hilo, Hawai‘i, with Chairman Rodney Watanabe presiding.
PRESENT: Rodney Watanabe ABSENT & EXCUSED: C. Kimo Alameda
Takashi Domingo
Lani Bowman
Frederic Housel
Andrew Iwashita
Shelly Ogata
Rell Woodward
Ivan Torigoe, Deputy Corporation Counsel
Daryn Arai, Acting Planning Director
Norman Hayashi, Planning Program Manager
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Jeff Darrow, Staff Planner
Maija Cottle, Staff Planner
And 13 people from the public in attendance.
INITIATOR: PLANNING DIRECTOR
Amendment to Chapters 23 (Subdivision Code) and 25 (Zoning Code), Hawaii County Code
1983 (2005 Edition, as amended) relating to Public Purpose Subdivisions.
WATANABE: Agenda Item No. 2, this is the second read of Planning Director initiated
amendments to Chapter 23 and Chapter 25. For your information, there’s no one signed up to
testify from the public so I think I’ll turn it over. Norman, are you going to handle this one?
HAYASHI: Yes. Mr. Chair, since there is no one from the public testifying on this
matter, I would suggest that we defer this to the last part of the agenda and take on Item No. 3
since we are slightly behind schedule.
WATANABE: Okay, okay. Are there any objections to that? I don’t believe so. Okay,
then let’s -.
WOODWARD: I don’t have an objection, but I think we’re probably ready for a vote on it
actually, unless there is more -.
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HAYASHI: If the Commission is willing to do that the, you know, that’s fine. I’ll
leave it up to the Commission.
WOODWARD: I would think we discussed it at the last meeting and seemed to be
unanimously in favor of it, so I think that there’s not really much that we need to do.
WATANABE: Well, let me poll then. Does anyone here foresee any issue with Agenda
Item No. 2, the proposed revisions to Chapter 23 and Chapter 25?
DOMINGO: No.
IWASHITA: No.
WOODWARD: No.
WATANABE: Then I’ll entertain a motion. Mr. Woodward?
WOODWARD: Yes. I move that with regard to the Planning Director’s initiated
amendment to Chapter 23 and Chapter 25, that we send a favorable recommendation to the
County Council.
WATANABE: Thank you. Do I have a second on that?
DOMINGO: Second.
WATANABE: Thank you, Mr. Domingo. Any further discussion on this? Maija, you
want to handle the vote on this?
COTTLE: Yes, thank you. Commissioner Woodward?
WOODWARD: Aye.
COTTLE: Commissioner Domingo?
DOMINGO: Aye.
COTTLE: Commissioner Bowman?
BOWMAN: Aye.
COTTLE: Commissioner Housel?
HOUSEL: Aye.
COTTLE: Commissioner Iwashita?
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IWASHITA: Yes.
COTTLE: Commissioner Ogata?
OGATA: Aye.
COTTLE: And Mr. Chair?
WATANABE: Aye.
COTTLE: Motion passes, seven-zero.
WATANABE: Okay, thank you.
The discussion ended at 10:30 a.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Sharon M. Nomura, East Hawai‘i Secretary
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