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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2014-01-29 KCDP Minutes Final 1 2 3 4 Kona Community Development Plan Action Committee 5 County of Hawai‘i 6 Minutes 7 Meeting Date: January 29, 2014 8 Call to Order 2:00 p.m. nd 9 Place: Kona Planning Conference Room. Bldg. E, 2 Floor 10 West Hawai’i Civic Center 11 74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Highway 12 Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i 96740 13 Roll Call: 14 1. Members Present: George (Keoki) Schattauer Jr., 15 Hiram Rivera, Greg Ogin, Elaine Fukushima, 16 Douglas Payne and Ken Melrose, Aaron Nagata 17 2. Planning Department: Duane Kanuha, Bennett Mark & Terry Dunlap, Keola Childs Margaret 18 Masunaga (Corporation Counsel) 19 3. Public in attendance: Janice Palma-Glennie, Dorothy Palma, Charles Flaherty, Jeff Zimpfer, 20 Karen Eoff, Josephine Kehipio, Dru Kanuha, Ross Wilson, Byron Moku, Mac McInnis, 21 Carolyn Lyces-Zenk, W. Green, Wendy Baez, Chris Miller and Sharon Willeford, 22 23 The meeting was called to order by the chair, Greg Ogin and introductions of AC members occurred. 24 25 STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC REGARDING ITEMS ON AGENDA 26 The chair noted that the meeting was being recorded. 27 Janice Palma-Glennie requested that her testimony be delayed until the director arrives. 28 The chair granted her request. Janet’s points of presentation: 29 The Planning Department has run on the KCDP since its inception. hot & cold · 30 The public is requiring a strong concurrency requirement. · 31 Immediately create an open space network. · 32 It is not ok for the administration to change the CDP as it was passed unanimously by the County · 33 Council. 34 Asked members of the KCDP AC to stand strong against changes. · 35 This is necessary for the long term success of the KCDP. · 36 37 ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS 38 1.Minutes were approved as amended. Motion by Ken Melrose, second by Keoki Schattauer 39 2.Amended the agenda by deleting items #3 & 4. 40 3.The meeting was recessed while we waited for the Planning Director to arrive. 41 4.The meeting was called back to order by the Chair. 42 43 BUSINESS OF COMMITTEE 44 Duane Kanuha, Planning Director, presented comments on the review of the Kona CDP as it applies to 45 Chapters 23 (Subdivision) & Chapter 25 (Zoning). The following points were discussed: 46 Staff has been involved with due process and is seeking consistency between County of Hawaii · 47 Chapters 23 (Subdivision Code) and 25 (Zoning Code) and the KCDP. 48 The three page document has proposals for amendments and the large document is a synopsis of · 49 the same information. 50 For the next hour, Keola Childs, at the director’s request, provided a synopsis of the proposed · 51 amendments for above referenced codes. Discussion included KCDP mandates and how the 52 County’s codes assure that the adopted regulations are consistent with the items specified in the 53 KCDP. 54 Two (2) ad-hoc sub-committees of four (4) members each were created to deal with the sections of 55 Chapter 25 as proposed for amendment. The subdivision code will be reviewed after the zoning code. 56 The first ad-hoc sub-committee consists of Hiram Rivera (chair), Elaine Fukushima, Keoki · 57 Schattauer and Douglas Payne. Under Land Use, their topics include : 58 #3. 25-2-46 Concurrency 59 #4. 25-2-70 Plan Approval 60 #5. 25-6-10 PUD Approval Criteria 61 #6. 25-6-30 Ohana Dwellings 62 63 The second ad-hoc sub-committee consists of Ken Melrose (chair), Greg Ogin, Aaron Nagata and · 64 Chauncey Wong Yuen. Under TOD, their topics include : 65 #1. 25-1-5 Definitions 66 #2. 25-2-42 Amendments (rezonings) initiated by property owners 67 #7. 25-6-70 through 73 (New Division of Article 6) “Community Design Code” 68 #8. 25-6-80 through 89 (New Division of Article 6) “Clustered Rural Development” 69 #9. 25-7-40 through 49.2 (New Division of Article 7) “Transit-Oriented Districts” 70 #10. 25-7-50 through 63 (New Division of Article 7) “Urban Overlay District” 71 2 72 The sub-committees can only report their findings at the next meeting and discussion will occur at the 73 March meeting. No motions at the next meeting only a report to the action committee. 74 Ken Melrose wants to have enough time for the public to participate in the discussions. 75 Aaron Nagata wants to know if other directors can attend KCDP AC meetings. Director confirmed that 76 the Action Committee can request them to attend. Terry Dunlap offered that the Planning Department 77 will assist in setting up meetings if requested. 78 Planning offered the conference room for any sub-committee meetings. 79 80 Section of Chapter 23 (Subdivision Code) were assigned as follows: 81 The first ad-hoc sub-committee consists of Hiram Rivera (chair), Elaine Fukushima, Keoki · 82 Schattauer and Douglas Payne. Under Transportation, their topics include : 83 #3. 23-13 Large scale developments 84 #4. 23-29 Block Sizes 85 #5. 23-40 Street location and arrangement 86 #6. 23-44 Future extension of streets 87 #7. 23-46 Improvement of existing streets 88 #8. 23-48 Cul-de-sacs 89 #9. 23-62 Tentative Approval of preliminary plat 90 #10. 23-86 Requirements for dedicable streets 91 #11. 23-88 Non-dedicable street; private dead-end street 92 #12. 23-89 through 95 exceptions for CDC and CDP standards 93 94 The second ad-hoc sub-committee consists of Ken Melrose (chair), Greg Ogin, Aaron Nagata and · 95 Chauncey Wong Yuen. Under TOD, their topics include : 96 #1. 23-3 Definitions 97 #2. 23-6 Applicability of State and County general plans 98 99 Motion by Ken Melrose and seconded by Douglas Payne to assign the categories for Chapter 25 (Zoning) 100 and Chapter 23 (Subdivisions) are as listed above was unanimously approved. The decision to work only 101 on Chapter 25 first was also agreed upon. 102 103 General members of the public can contact Planning for contact to serve on the committee. Past members 104 of the action committee may serve as members of the sub-committee. Size of the sub-committee should 105 be set by the chair of the sub-committee. 106 3 107 Ken Melrose mentioned that it is important for a two person dialog such as is found in the sub-committee 108 over only testifying at a public meeting. 109 110 Capital Improvement Program, (CIP) suggestions: 111 There were 9 original submissions with multiple projects each. Our task now is to pick the top · 112 three (3) individual projects. 113 Our job is to help find funding for these top three or more projects. · 114 We should also select various dollar projects so that we have projects over a broad range. · 115 The request for the 2013-2014 budgets are already assigned. We are looking for funds for the · 116 2014-2015 budgets. Selections are only for the County’s bonding and not the State funding. 117 The Action Committee can support other items on the appropriations list. · 118 Items remain on the list for up to 3 years. · 119 Suggest that each member comment on their top projects at the next meeting. · 120 Ken recommended that projects that are already funded or complete should be eliminated from · 121 the list. 122 Subcommittee Reports-none 123 124 Comments from the Public: 125 Charles Flaherty distributed a copy of pages 5 & 6 of the Hokulia settlement agreement. This is · 126 regarding amendment of Chapter 23 regarding easements to protect archaeological sites can be 127 protected. Charles noted that this is not being accomplished by the County and sites are being 128 destroyed. Concerned those handouts were not issued to him before the meeting even though he 129 requested them. He will check with Sunshine Law to see if this was a violation. He also noted 130 that there are no details as to the conflicts between the PUD, KCDP, Chapter 23 and the General 131 Plan. What are the conflicts. Where is the public input from the past comments and are you 132 trying to move forward without consideration of past involvements. What is the County’s 133 conflict of interest with regards to agenda items. 134 135 Janice Palma-Glennie, noted that a 3 minute rule does not seem to allow adequate time for · 136 discussion of topics. Do not change open space network for its priority. County information 137 presented today should not be split up among two groups. Please send me a copy of the handout 138 as an electronic copy. She would like to be back on the Action Committee as a member. 139 140 Karen Eoff stated thank you for the work and the approach to amend the code is a good direction. · 4 141 Sharon Rudolf stated that these recommendations for the community may be for other · 142 communities. These other people can not contribute to the recommendations. Greg noted that 143 these are island wide standards and not meant to force KCDP standards on other communities. 144 The KCDP is not on the web site but is available through a DVD at the Planning Office for $5.00. 145 146 Josephine Kehipio asked about environmental resources and whether they are included. Greg · 147 confirmed that they are included. 148 149 The meeting was adjourned. 150 151 Next meeting is February 26, 2014. 152 Motion to adjourn. 5