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LEEWARD PLANNING COMMISSION
COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I
MINUTES
OCTOBER 20, 2016
The Leeward Planning Commission met in regular session at 9:30 a.m. in the West Hawai‘i
Civic Center, Community Center, Building G, 74-5044 Ane Keohokālole Highway,
Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i, with Chairman Keith F. Unger presiding.
COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Keith F. Unger, Scott Church, Collin Kaholo, Perry Kealoha,
Barbara Nobriga and Sonny Shimaoka
ABSENT AND EXCUSED: Nancy Carr Smith
ALSO PRESENT: Malia Ho (Counsel for the Commission), Duane Kanuha (Planning Director),
Daryn Arai (Planning Program Manager) and Noriko Sauer (Commission Secretary)
And four people from the public in attendance.
A quorum was present. Chair Unger called the meeting to order, and introduced the
Commissioners and staff to members of the public. He described the procedure for public
testimony.
STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC
No statements were presented under this section of the agenda.
NEW BUSINESS
1. APPLICANT: PR PUU PA, LLC (SPP 16-190)
Request for a Special Permit to establish a concrete ready-mix batching plant facility, the
manufacturing and storage of concrete precast products, and base yard for the storage of
equipment, materials, stockpiling of aggregates/sand, and related uses and improvements on
an approximately 2.0-acre portion of a 13,285.024-acre parcel of land situated in the State
Land Use Agricultural District. The project site is located on the makai/west side of
Māmalahoa Highway approximately one-half (.5) mile to the south of Lalamilo Farm Road,
Waikoloa, South Kohala, Hawai‘i, TMK: 6-8-001:Por. 001.
The Commission took up this item at 9:32 a.m., with one person from the public in attendance.
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Action: It was moved by Commissioner Shimaoka and seconded by Commissioner Church that
the application to amend Special Permit SPP 16-190 be approved based on the Planning
Director’s recommendations, findings and proposed conditions, which shall be adopted. A roll
call vote was taken and the motion carried with six ayes (Shimaoka, Church, Kaholo, Kealoha,
Nobriga and Unger) and one absent and excused (Carr Smith).
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MINUTES
Minutes of the September 15, 2016 meeting
At 9:48 a.m. it was moved by Commissioner Kaholo and seconded by Commissioner Nobriga
that the minutes be approved as submitted. The motion was unanimously carried by a voice
vote.
ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS
None.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mr. Arai announced that the next meeting was scheduled for November 17, 2016, with
tentatively one item on the agenda, that is, a petition received regarding a Special Permit
application, SPP 16-000188 (Bolton, Inc.), which had been withdrawn earlier by the applicant.
Mr. Arai also announced that there were no applications queued for the meeting of December 15,
2016; however, two Planning Director initiated amendments to the Planning Commission Rules
of Practice and Procedure (“Rules”), as well as two amendments to the Zoning Code, were
currently being drafted. He expounded that one of the amendments was to bring the Rules up to
date by incorporating the new Planned Unit Development permit process recently adopted by the
County Council, and the other to give clarity to the Contested Case Procedure rules. He said that
because rulemaking had to be considered and acted on at a joint meeting of the Leeward and
Windward Planning Commissions, such meeting was being planned for that day at the West
Hawai‘i Civic Center. He added that the two Zoning Code amendments were concerning
meeting facilities and Agricultural zoning districts.
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, at 9:51 a.m., Chair Unger declared that the meeting adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Noriko Sauer, Secretary
A T T E S T:
Keith F. Unger, Chairman
Leeward Planning Commission
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