2012-07-19 Leeward Exh A - Kohanaiki

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LEEWARD PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I HEARING TRANSCRIPT JULY 19, 2012 KOHANAIKI SHORES, LLC (SMA-12-50) A regularly advertised hearing on the applications of was called to order at 9:45 a.m. in the West Hawai‘i Civic Center, Community Center, Building G, 74-5044 Ane Keohokālole Highway, Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i, with Vice Chair Lani Bowman presiding. COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Lani Bowman, Brandi Beaudet, Thomas Hickcox, Wayne Iokepa and Thomas Whittemore ABSENT AND EXCUSED: Geraldine Giffin and Richard Nelson, III ALSO PRESENT: Ivan Torigoe (Deputy Corporation Counsel), BJ Leithead Todd (Planning Director), Daryn Arai (Planning Program Manager), Jeff Darrow (Planner), Kiran Emler (Department of Public Works, Engineering Division), and Noriko Sauer (Commission Secretary) And approximately twelve people from the public in attendance. APPLICANT: KOHANAIKI SHORES, LLC (SMA-12-50) Special Management Area Use Permit to allow the development of a frontage road along the makai side of the Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway from the Huliko‘a Drive intersection at the Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway to Kohanaiki Way, Kohanaiki, North Kona, TMK: 7-3-009: portions of 16 and 18. BOWMAN: So we will move on to our second agenda item that is Kohanaiki Shores, LLC, SMA Permit 12-50. It’s a special management area use permit to allow the development of a frontage road along the makai side of Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway from the Huliko‘a Drive intersection at the Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway to Kohanaiki Way, Kohanaiki, North Kona. Thank you. DARROW: Thank you, Madam Chairperson, and also good morning, Members of the Planning Commission. Welcome. If I can direct your attention to our presentation this morning. Our first applicant is Kohanaiki Shores, LLC. They are requesting a special management area use permit. The area of this application is located within the North Kona District of Hawai‘i. More specifically, we are looking in the Kohanaiki area. You might be familiar with the industrial area located on the lower portion of the map; this is where Costco is located, as well as others. Hina Lani Street runs in an east-west direction, or mauka-makai. More specifically, we have Huliko‘a Street and the industrial area located on the mauka side of Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway, which is running in a north-south direction along the middle portion of the map. The properties identified with this application are outlined in black. You will notice the different colors on the map, which represent the different types of zoning. This is a closer-up view of the area for the application. Again, the subject properties are identified with the black outline. We have Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway running in a north-south direction, and we have Huliko‘a Road running in an east-west direction, or mauka-makai. We have the Kohanaiki project just makai of the project site. More specifically, you’ll see a red outline, that’s the actual project area, so it only is touching a portion of each of these two properties. This particular zoning is the County zoning layer, which identifies both 1 EXHIBIT A