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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2015-03-25 KCDP Minutes Final1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 Kona Community Development Plan Action Committee County of Hawai'i Minutes Meeting Date: March 25th, 2015 Call to Order: 2:00 pm Place: Kona Planning Conference Room. Bldg. E, 2nd Floor West Hawai'i Civic Center 74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Highway Kailua-Kona, Hawai'i 96740 Roll Call: 1. Members Present: Hiram Rivera, Douglas Payne, Greg Ogin, Barbara DeFranco, Keoki Schattauer, and Kari Kimura. 2. Planning Department: Terry Dunlap and Ali Catalano 3. Public in attendance: Ann Bouslog, Ken Melrose, Stan Fujimoto, David Elbogen, Jim McClean, Mike Shibata, Chuck Flaherty, Jeff Zimpfer, Leinani Wessel, and Janice Palma Glennie. 4. Council Members Present: Karen Eoff The meeting was called to order by the chair Greg Ogin and introductions of AC members followed. STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC REGARDING ITEMS ON AGENDA None. ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS 1. Minutes from the Meeting on January 28th, 2015 Meeting Kari Kimura made a motion to approve the meeting minutes, and Barbara DeFranco seconded that motion. The motion was carried unanimously. PRESENTATIONS TO ACTION COMMITTEE: 1. Ann Bouslog of Forest City Hawaii provided a project update on Kamakana Villages at Keahuolu. She provided a hand out presentation of slides for the Action Committee to follow along. She explained the plans and locations of retail, housing, schools, and more. There were some concerns of burial sites, which Ann clarified that they have been reviewed and that the plan is to keep burials in place and protected. There was also some concern in regards to green open space areas and lack of green belt. Ann clarified that there is open space around the property. Discussion continued to cover the amount of homes that will be included, 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 price ranges, affordable housing, and time frames and projections. BUSINESS OF COMMITTEE: ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION AND ACTION 1. The Action Committee discussed their options and the challenges in forming an investigatory subcommittee to prepare recommendations to amend the Hawaii County General Plan. The overall response of the Action Committee was that it is unreasonable to take on this project and provide recommendations in such a short amount of time for a deadline of June 6th, 2015. However, after much discussion, the Action Committee agreed that this is an opportunity and that they should take on this project. After further discussion, Doug Payne made a motion to create two adhoc subcommittees: one to look at the outreach, economic development, and TOD activities report of the Kona CDP as it relates to the General Plan; and the second to look at the land use, environmental & cultural resources report, transportation and public facilities report as it relates to the General Plan. Curtis Tyler seconded this motion, and it was carried unanimously. The members of each adhoc subcommittee are as follows: Group One: Greg Ogin (Chair), Kari Kimura, Barbara DeFranco, and Elaine Fukushima. Group Two: Hiram Rivera (Chair), Curtis Tyler, Doug Payne, and Keoki Schattauer. 2. Island Wide Action Committee Report by Greg Ogin and Hiram Rivera Greg Ogin reported that in February, there was a meeting with the other Action Committee members where they discussed global issues that the other committees were experiencing. A major topic of conversation was the selection of committee members and the method of selection. Greg went on to explain that it is apparent there is no process and that nominations appear to get lost in the system. This was brought to the attention of the Planning Director and the members who attended the meeting were under the impression that the Planning Director would look into this matter and hopefully come back with some type of process that will be more effective than what is currently in place. 3. Update on Capital Improvements Program (CIP) as it pertains to the KCDP AC recommendations. Terry Dunlap passed out a packet that included the items that made the appropriation list, and the status of those items. He also passed out a copy of the county approved budget for 2014-2015. 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS 1. Ad-hoc Subcommittee Reports a) Chapter 25, (Zoning Code) of the Hawaii County Code Curtis Tyler made a motion that the ad-hoc subcommittees reviewing the proposed chapter 25 revisions to the county code be dissolved, as its work has been completed. Barbara DeFranco seconded that motion, and it was carried unanimously. The motion that remained from the November meeting (see below) was brought up for discussion. There was a request at the January meeting by Ken Melrose to decline this motion, but the Action Committee chose to hold off on any action until Curtis Tyler was present. Motion is as follows: 1,11"IuS Tw������]��ade: s>Ilhu°ol�tt ]�� ll Ilee I�as Ire%"ue%^ Veda III' e pl"Oposed ph)III>r:II>II 0 cll aj::Ild u: '25 OfIII'�.e lhn�^vall Code,, I�e a Se S aIII :1 1-ec01r' I��eII.d s IIII aII:: III�e P I a i i i i i i i g Dlllyeu°Ildoi", a'01Jd1� " IIII';L1.'IlliaIe allld fo]� X'Valld'Il tl se 0 III; ]esjro e IIIA"o 0 IlIle lk)%Nall fol ull's d::olu sud::el� allii.ol� alld passage. Bai"ba a DeFiaii o secoil ded I. will:aouu Curtis Tyler made a motion that this motion be removed from the table. Keoki Schattauer seconded that motion and it was carried unanimously. Curtis Tyler stated that the motion as just read (listed above) in lines 157-165 stands. Further discussion. A vote on the motion lead to one in agreement, and 4 in disagreement. The motion was not carried. b) Chapter 23, (Subdivision Control Code) of the Hawaii County Code Hiram Rivera reported that there are no amendments at this time. Hiram Rivera made a motion not to recommend any adoption to the proposed changes, and Curtis Tyler seconded that motion. 2. Subcommittee Reports Hiram Rivera explained that after his report in January, there was further discussion in regards to Village Design Guidelines. He explained that he 139 called Terry, and asked if it would be ok to replace Kari with Keoki and 140 what would be necessary to make that change. Meetings have been held 141 up since then, but Hiram addressed that he would like to make this 142 change official. 143 144 Hiram made a motion to amend the membership of the subcommittee, 145 and Curtis Tyler seconded that motion. The motion was carried 146 unanimously. 147 148 Hiram went on to explain that the subcommittee feels that there 149 shouldn't be a minimum or maximum when it comes to acreage in project 150 districts. Their recommendation to the Planning Director is to withdraw 151 the minimum. Hiram stated that in their next meeting they will come 152 forward with that recommendation, and that they will also do a 153 justification and recommendation report on the village design guidelines. 154 155 STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC 156 157 None. 158 159 ANNOUNCEMENTS 160 161 Next meeting Wednesday, April 29th, 2015. 162 163 Meeting adjourned at 4:45 PM. 164 165 Minutes submitted by Ali Catalano, of Kinoshita Communications.