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<br />LEEWARD PLANNING COMMISSION
<br />COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I
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<br />HEARING TRANSCRIPT
<br />OCTOBER 20, 2016
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<br />A regularly advertised hearing on the application of PR PUU PA, LLC (SPP 16-190) was called to
<br />order at 9:32 a.m. in the West Hawai‘i Civic Center, Community Center, Building G, 74-5044 Ane
<br />Keohokālole Highway, Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i, with Chairman Keith F. Unger presiding.
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<br />COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Keith F. Unger, Scott Church, Collin Kaholo, Perry Kealoha,
<br />Barbara Nobriga and Sonny Shimaoka
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<br />ABSENT AND EXCUSED: Nancy Carr Smith
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<br />ALSO PRESENT: Malia Ho (Counsel for the Commission), Duane Kanuha (Planning Director),
<br />Daryn Arai (Planning Program Manager) and Noriko Sauer (Commission Secretary)
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<br />And one person from the public in attendance.
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<br />APPLICANT: PR PUU PA, LLC (SPP 16-190)
<br />Request for a Special Permit to establish a concrete ready-mix batching plant facility, the
<br />manufacturing and storage of concrete precast products, and base yard for the storage of equipment,
<br />materials, stockpiling of aggregates/sand, and related uses and improvements on an approximately
<br />2.0-acre portion of a 13,285.024-acre parcel of land situated in the State Land Use Agricultural
<br />District. The project site is located on the makai/west side of Māmalahoa Highway approximately
<br />one-half (.5) mile to the south of Lalamilo Farm Road, Waikoloa, South Kohala, Hawai‘i,
<br />TMK: 6-8-001:Por. 001.
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<br />UNGER: With that we can get into the agenda item, No. 1. Applicant PR Puu Pa, LLC, Special
<br />Permit 16-190, request for a Special Permit to establish a concrete ready-mix batching plant facility,
<br />the manufacturing and storage of concrete precast products, and base yard for the storage of
<br />equipment, materials, stockpiling of aggregates, sand, and related uses and improvements on an
<br />approximately two-acre portion of a 13,285-acre parcel of land situated in the State Land Use
<br />Agricultural District. The project site is located on the makai, west side of Māmalahoa Highway
<br />approximately one-half miles to the south of Lalamilo Farm Road, Waikoloa, South Kohala,
<br />Hawai‘i, TMK 6-8-1: portion of Parcel 1. Staff, would you like to make your presentation?
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<br />ARAI: Sure, glad to. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, Commissioners. If I may direct
<br />your attention to the presentation screen. The project site, we are looking at the Waimea area here,
<br />which is the colorful area located toward the top of the map, the project area is highlighted here
<br />with an arrow, I’ll zoom in later, and you can see its proximity to the town of Waimea, which is
<br />about one and a quarter miles away from the project site to the north.
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<br />Zooming in a bit, you’ll see the blue area, which is Agricultural 40-acre zoning, and this is the
<br />Kohala Waimea Airport off to your right. This gray area here is lands currently designated Limited
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