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<br />PLANNING COMMISSION <br />COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I <br /> <br />HEARING TRANSCRIPT <br />FEBRUARY 2, 2012 <br /> <br /> <br />KAREN AND ADRIAN GALAN (REZ 11-145) <br />A regularly advertised hearing on the application of <br />was called to order at 10:10 a.m. in the County of Hawai‘i, Aupuni Center Conference Room, <br />101 Pauahi Street, Hilo, Hawai‘i, with Chairman Zendo Kern presiding. <br /> <br />COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Zendo Kern, Dean Au, Takashi Domingo, Wallace Ishibashi, and <br />Raylene Moses <br /> <br />STAFF PRESENT: Ivan Torigoe (Deputy Corporation Counsel), B. J. Leithead Todd (Planning <br />Director), Daryn Arai (Planning Program Manager), Phyllis Fujimoto (Staff Planner), Maija Cottle <br />(Staff Planner), Jeff Darrow (Staff Planner), Kelly Gomes (representing Chief Engineer from 9:36 <br />a.m.), and Sharon Nomura (Secretary) <br /> <br />And 8 people from the public in attendance. <br /> <br />ABSENT & EXCUSED: Stephen Ono <br /> <br />APPLICANTS: KAREN AND ADRIAN GALAN (REZ 11-145) <br />Application for a Change of Zone from Single-Family Residential – 10,000 square feet <br />(RS-10) to Village Commercial – 7,500 square feet (CV-7.5) for approximately 17,994 square feet of <br />land. The subject properties are located on the north side of Pahoa Village Road, across from the <br />Pahoa Cash & Carry Store employee's parking lot at Nānāwale Homesteads, Pāhoa, Puna, Hawai‘i, <br />TMKERN: 1-5-011:008 & 009. <br /> <br />KERN: Application No. 5, Karen and Adrian Galan (REZ 11-145), Application for a Change of Zone <br />from Single-Family Residential – 10,000 square feet to Village Commercial – 7,500 square feet on <br />TMK: 1-5-011:008 & 009. Before we actually do staff presentation, as I’ve stated previously I’m <br />recusing myself just so I don’t even have the appearance of any impropriety, I’m continuing to do that. <br />But what I would like to do is give the applicant the option to either allow me to still continue to chair <br />the meeting or to step out. And it will be your guys’s choice. So I can either facilitate it - I won’t be <br />involved in any discussion, anything like that, I’ll just be facilitating - or I can step to the side and the <br />Vice Chair can chair. Everyone, okay? <br /> <br />APPLICANTS: Okay. <br /> <br />KERN: Okay, thanks. Okay, very good. Then with that, staff’s presentation. <br /> <br />COTTLE: Thank you, Mr. Chair. This application is a continuation from I think our previous two <br />hearings. So it was deferred. And the applicants are Karen and Adrian Galan. They’re requesting a <br />change of zone. The subject property is located in the Puna district in Pahoa Village. And the <br />1 <br /> EXHIBIT B <br /> <br />