HomeMy WebLinkAbout2014-02-26 KCDP Minutes Final
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Kona Community Development Plan Action Committee
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County of Hawaii
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Minutes
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Meeting Date: February 26, 2014
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Call to Order 2:00 p.m.
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Place: Kona Planning Conference Room. Bldg. E, 2 Floor
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West Hawaii Civic Center
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74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Highway
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Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 96740
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Roll Call:
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1. Members Present: George (Keoki) Schattauer Jr., Elaine Fukushima
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Hiram Rivera, Greg Ogin, Douglas Payne and Ken Melrose
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2. Planning Department: Terry Dunlap, Keola Childs, Margaret Masunaga (Corporation
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Counsel) and Bobby Command
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3. Public in attendance: Jeff Zimpfer, Ross Wilson, Peter Young, Curtis Tyler, Bill Moore,
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Kari Kimura, Brenda Ford, Laura Dierenfield and Paul Strauss
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The meeting was called to order by the chair, Greg Ogin and introductions of AC members occurred.
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STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC REGARDING ITEMS ON AGENDA
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1.Curtis Tyler spoke on discussions about concurrency and some of its inconsistencies. He
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told the Action Committee about reviewing this important issue and reminded everyone that
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any changes must be approved by the County Council. Curtis said he might be willing to
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serve on the sub-committee to discuss this item.
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2.Jeff Zimpfer identified himself as an Environmental Protection Specialist for Kaloko-
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Honokohau National Historical Park and read from his prepared text, which was distributed
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to all members of the Action Committee and the general public. Also distributed was a three
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page table with direct links to monitoring data collected by the National Park Service and the
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U.S. Geological Survey. Ken Melrose mentioned that requested material from a previous
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meeting was never received. Jeff offered to get back to Ken.
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ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS
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1.Minutes were unanimously approved
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2.No changes to the agenda.
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BUSINESS OF COMMITTEE
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1.Report from Riley Smith on the County Council Planning Committee meeting by the
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Commission on Water Resources Management for the Keauhou aquifer. Copies of his
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presentation were distributed to all members of the KCDP AC and attending members of the
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public.
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2.Ken Melrose reported on his ad-hoc committee meetings where Aaron Nagata, Greg Ogin are
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also members. There are also additional members of the public. Ken distributed minutes of the
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meetings with a list of all participating persons. Items presented for Chapter 25 Zoning Code:
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#1. 25-1-5 Definitions
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#2. 25-2-42 Amendments (rezonings) initiated by property owners
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#7. 25-6-70 through 73 (New Division of Article 6) Community Design Code
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#8. 25-6-80 through 89 (New Division of Article 6) Clustered Rural Development
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#9. 25-7-40 through 49.2 (New Division of Article 7) Transit-Oriented Districts
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#10. 25-7-50 through 63 (New Division of Article 7) Urban Overlay District
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Committee recommendations to the Action Committee:
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Work with portions of the plan that were listed as enacted by plan but are not due to
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technical difficulty.
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Support for the Planning Departments initiative to amend the County of Hawaii Zoning
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Code and to include the tools to permit island wide usage.
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Village Design Guidelines be closely viewed to make certain the goals are achieved.
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Go forward and lend our support to help Planning to mover forward with these items.
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3. Hiram Rivera reported on his ad-hoc committee meetings. Elaine Fukushima and Douglas Payne
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are also members. There are also additional members of the public. Minutes were distributed and
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items presented for Chapter 25 Zoning Code:
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#4. 25-2-70 Plan Approval
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#5. 25-6-10 PUD Approval Criteria
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#6. 25-6-30 Ohana Dwellings
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Item #3. 25-2-46 Concurrency was not reported upon and is continued until the March 19
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meeting of the KCDP AC.
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Greg Ogin discussed how these reports will be discussed at the next meeting.
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Hiram asked about the current code and whether it has concurrency standards for the entire island.
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Keola Childs indicated that for clarification only, the County Zoning Code does have a section on
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concurrency whose method of determining whether a street can handle the traffic count needed to
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perform in an acceptable manner is based on level of service. The CDP has a different method of
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determining concurrency by declaring the entire Kona Urban Area a concurrency zone without the
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level of service to determine that category of use. It may be possible for sections of the
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concurrency method, used by the CDP, to be met by using reasonably proportioned for that
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section of highway in question. This discussion will continue at a later meeting of the Action
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Committee.
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Discussion among the committee members and the planning department was made with
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clarifications about the review process. The Action Committee is being asked to review these items
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made by planning with comments and recommendations to follow item by item.
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Hiram made a standing sub-committee report on highway importance. No report on concurrency is
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made at this time as additional meetings are scheduled to discuss that topic with the subcommittee.
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Ken Melrose commented on his ad-hoc committee on Subdivisions Chapter 23:
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Prepared to move forward on the Sub-Division code.
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Hirams ad-hoc sub-committee has too many items so Ken is offering to add #3, 23-13
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Large Scale Developments and #12, 23-89 through 95 exceptions for CDC and CDP
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standards to his ad-hoc sub-committee to help reduce the number of items from Hirams
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sub-committee. The reassignments are listed below:
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Hiram agreed on the change of assignments.
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#4. 23-29 Block Sizes
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#5. 23-40 Street location and arrangement
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#6. 23-44 Future extension of streets
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#7. 23-46 Improvement of existing streets
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#8. 23-48 Cul-de-sacs
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#9. 23-62 Tentative Approval of preliminary plat
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#10. 23-86 Requirements for dedicable streets
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#11. 23-88 Non-dedicable Street; private dead-end street.
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The second ad-hoc sub-committee consists of Ken Melrose (chair), Greg Ogin and
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Aaron Nagata. Under TOD, their topics include :
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#1. 23-3 Definitions
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#2. 23-6 Applicability of State and County general plans
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#3. 23-13 Large scale developments
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#12. 23-89 through 95 exceptions for CDC and CDP standards
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Motion to amend the agenda made by Douglas Payne and seconded by Elaine Fukushima to allow
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Hiram to present his sub-committee report next was unanimously approved.
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Hiram presented his sub-committee report on highways. Discussion included:
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A six page report with exhibits was distributed to the committee
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Priority roads were identified on exhibits 1 & 2
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Exhibit #3 identified table 4-1 Concurrency Table from the KCDP
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Exhibit #4 has taken completed road from table 4-1 Concurrency Table of the KCDP
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A large scale map of Kona Urban Area denoting highways was posted on the board for
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review
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Discussion about completed roads (red lines) were discussed.
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State Highways that are north/south connectors are the key to traffic movement.
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Selection of key roads should be identified as to all roads
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KCDP Concurrency issues do not have any mechanism for changes. Its either all or
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nothing.
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What happens to a concurrency zone if one of the roads in that zone can not be built?
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Concurrency zones can become dead zones if only one road in that zone can not be built.
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Hiram also read sections of the CDP about concurrency especially Policy LU-2.8, Page 4-45.
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Douglas Payne, also of this sub-committee, commented that the CDP is as thought it is set in
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concrete as to concurrency and as changes occur it basically places a hold on everything.
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Our north south connectors need to be funded and completed if we are to accomplish any relief to
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the existing traffic congestion.
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Hiram stated we need to emphasis with the state the need to get these major connectors build to
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handle the existing traffic as well as future development. These are the log jams for Kailua-
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Kona.
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Keola Childs pointed out that under Policy LU-2.8, of the KCDP, projects over 20 acres shall be
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permitted to develop as a neighborhood TND following the procedures for a PUD and the Village
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Design Guidelines. Also Non-TND projects, with existing zoning, is subject to requirements for
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Parks, affordable housing, street standards, wastewater, concurrency and sensitive resources.
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Hiram noted that if the concurrency process is stalled, we need to move forward to resolve the
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situation. Key to traffic congestion is to deal with the destination roads from north to south.
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Ken Melrose noted that the County needs to decide its policy on whether the Alii Parkway should
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be abandoned and if so how that abandonment would impact the concurrency maps.
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Douglas Payne wants to know when and where will the Action Committee address the financing
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plan. When can this be discussed? Ken pointed out that the Financing Plan for Public Facilities
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and Backbone Infrastructure, prepared on January 14, 2011 by Goodwin Consulting Group
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(GCG), was never approved or adopted by the County Council. The financing plan was adopted
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by the action committee and submitted it to the Planning Director for implementation.
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Douglas Payne suggested that a sub-committee be established to deal with financing for the CDP.
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Finance must be in line with the development for the system to work. Greg asked for discussion
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on this possible finance committee. Douglas indicated that the County needs to identify the
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funding mechanism for the financing plan to proceed. Each neighborhood needs to have a road
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improvement district identified to move forward with funding.
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Keola suggested that a mission be established for a finance sub-committee so that a clear goal can
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be designated for that group. Doug recommended we discuss this at the next meeting. Ken
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recommended we invite Dave Freudenberger, principal with GCG, to present highlights from the
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financing plan at our next scheduled meeting. Ken noted that the financing tools have not kept
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pace with the CDP.
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Elaine Fukushima suggested that financing numbers be added to these handouts to make everyone
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aware of the costs for each item. Ken noted that there are Federal, State and County level funding
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and we need to coordinate these funding sources.
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Bobby Command suggested that the action committee write to the Planning Director to support
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conversation with the State for highway funding. Terry Dunlap suggested that we ask Chauncey
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Wong Yuen to assist the action committee in communicating with the State Highways Division.
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Keola Childs spoke on the possibility of impact fees and discussed his conversation with past
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County Council member, Mr. Pete Hoffman. Discussion included a range of options that the
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action committee could investigate.
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Douglas asked whether an ad-hoc committee should be developed? No, just a regular sub-
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committee and part of Hirams committee.
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Margaret Masunaga noted that Mr. Chen, a volunteer from the community, who has a background
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in economic and is associated with California at Berkley, has offered to help the action committee.
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Curtis Tyler spoke on various highway improvements and the importance of planning and
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improvements. K-K parkway, this road will never be built to Federal Highway Standards.
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Federal Highway will not participate if the highway is not a four (4) lane highway or a segmented
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highway. The road must be built in its entire length as one project. Recommends we move on to
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an achievable project. Focus on projects that can be accomplished.
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Terry Dunlap explained the appropriation list and how it differs from the bond list.
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Discussions on the CIP priorities followed with these top recommendations:
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Makai arterial parkway: Kuakini to Pottery Terrace and Kuakini Extension (Item e and 4B
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on concurrency map)
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Mauka Makai connectors: Lako Street and Nani Kailua Drive
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Kailua Redevelopment TOD Village Scale Plan
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The action committee will vote on these priorities at the next meeting.
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Keola requested that the action committee request that at least monies be provided to do the
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necessary research to determine the viability of the design corridors and identify any problems
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that may exist. This could determine feasibility for the road corridors to be considered. We need
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to get the groundwork accomplished on 4 or 5 streets so that they are ready to proceed with the
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design when funds are ready.
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Terry Dunlap recommended that the action committee request a meeting with the Public Works
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Director to discuss the status of streets within the Kona Urban Area and beyond. Ask the
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Planning Director to set up the meeting with Public Works to discuss these items.
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Hiram stated that streets are not a matter of whether they can be done but when they will be done.
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Next meeting is March 19, 2014
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Motion to adjourn
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