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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2017-01-05 Hearing Transcript - Rhodes Moore LLC Amend REZ 840WINDWARD PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAII HEARING TRANSCRIPT JANUARY 5, 2017 A regularly advertised hearing on the application of RHODES MOORE, LLC (Amend REZ 840) was called to order at 9:01 a.m. in the County of Hawaii Aupuni Center Conference Room, 101 Pauahi Street, Hilo, Hawaii with Chairman Gregory Henkel presiding. COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Joseph Clarkson, Donn Dela Cruz, Gregory Henkel, Donald Ikeda, and Myles Miyasato. ABSENT & EXCUSED: Raylene Moses. ALSO PRESENT: Daryn Arai (Deputy Planning Director), Malia Ho (Deputy Corporation Counsel for the Windward Planning Commission), Kelly Gomes (representing the Department of Public Works, from 9:37 a.m.), Jeff Darrow (Planning Program Manager), Maija Jackson (Staff Planner), Christian Kay (Staff Planner), and Sarah Hata-Finley (Commission Secretary). And 14 members from the public in attendance. APPLICANT: RHODES MOORE, LLC (formerly GRAPHIC IMAGES HAWAII, INC., FINANCE HOLDINGS, LTD. and TRI -ELECTRIC, INC.) (Amend REZ 840) Request to amend Condition C (Final Subdivision Approval), Condition G (Secure Letter of Map Revision from FEMA), and Condition Q (Fair Share Contribution) of Ordinance No. 12-111, which amended Ordinance No. 99 116, which amended Ordinance No. 96 159, which rezoned approximately 7.402 acres from the Single -Family Residential — 10,000 square feet (RS -10) district to the Neighborhood Commercial — 7,500 square feet (CN -7.5) district. The amendments to conditions relate to a 5 -year time extension to secure final subdivision or plan approval, the timing of installing drainage improvements on the property, and request for relief from fair share contribution provisions for an assisted living facility. The property is located on the southeast side of the intersection of Kanoelehua Avenue (State Highway 11) and East Kahaopea Street, Waiakea Homestead House Lots, South Hilo, Hawaii, TMK: 2-2-044:031, 032, 035 and 037. HENKEL: We'll move on to the first agenda item which is Rhodes Moore, LLC, formerly Graphic Images Hawaii. It's amendment REZ 840. Will the Applicantor, no, I'm sorry, first we'll have Maija do the presentation. JACKSON: Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, everyone. DELA CRUZ: Morning. HO: Good morning. EXHIBIT A JACKSON: So, the first item on the agenda is a request to amend Change of Zone Ordinance No. 12-111 for Rhodes Moore, LLC. The subject property is located in the South Hilo District. It's shown here with a black outline. You have running in a north -south direction Highway 11, Kanoelehua Avenue, and then running in an east -west direction towards the top of the slide is Kahaopea Street. So, the subject property is located just south of Kahaopea and just east of the highway. It actually consists of four properties, and you can kind of see there's one here, two, three, and four. They're currently zoned Neighborhood Commercial — 7,500 square feet which is shown on the map in a light pink. Opposite the intersection north, northwest direction, you have the Baskin-Robbins, Subway, O'Reilly's, and the McDonald's in that area, and that's shown in the darker pink. That's also zoned Neighborhood Commercial. And, then, most of the surrounding properties are zoned Single -Family Residential. The Hilo Lani Subdivision is located just east of the property. That's shown here. And, then, some older subdivisions and the Pana`ewa Park is located to the north across Kahaopea Street. The General Plan designation for the property is Low Density Urban which is shown in the mustard color. Again, the Puainako Center where Baskin-Robbins and Subway are located is High Density Urban which is shown in the red color. And, the Low Density Urban allows for residential uses up to a maximum density of six units per acre. It also allows for some community and public uses as well as Neighborhood Commercial and convenience uses. This is an aerial view of the property. Generally, the property is located in this area here. This is an old image from 2014. Some trees have been removed along the highway since then, but you can see the Hilo Lani Subdivision to the east, and then the Puainako Center northwest of the intersection. There is a floodway that runs through the property, and if you follow the red dot, it generally runs north and south through the property in this location here, and it comes out across Kahaopea in this area. DOI (from audience): It comes down, too, from the back. JACKSON: Yeah, it also, it flows in this direction as well. DOI (from audience): Kawailani, too. Yeah, all the way from Kawailani the water flow. JACKSON: This is the Applicant's site plan. So, on the left side of the slide, you have Kahaopea Street. On the bottom of the slide is the highway. The access to the property is proposed to be across from Awapuhi Street. This is the access driveway here. The Applicant, I believe, is proposing a 30 -foot wide driveway. There's some parking in the front area, and then you drive in. You can see they're proposing an assisted living facility that's located over here on the south end of the property. And, then, they are also proposing some commercial businesses and office space closer to the intersection shown in this EXHIBIT A 2 area. You can see there's a loop driveway that they're proposing, and then some parking over near the commercial area. The Applicant's current request is to amend Condition C of the ordinance to request a five-year time extension to secure final subdivision approval. Because there are—let me back up a little because there are four lots in the rezone area, they're proposing to consolidate the lots and then resubdivide it to align with their future development plans. They are also requesting to amend Condition G to change the timing of installing the drainage improvements in order to allow the Applicant to subdivide the property and receive Plan Approval and then construct the required drainage improvements in conjunction with the development of the assisted living facility. The way that the condition currently reads, it requires that they install and get final FEMA approval for the drainage improvements before they can subdivide the property. And, their last request, they had asked the Planning Department for determination of whether the fair share contribution requirements of Condition Q would apply to an assisted living facility because they feel that it's not a traditional dwelling type structure. They are also asking that if, if those requirements do apply in Condition Q, they would like relief from the parks and roads contribution components because they are, they believe that their facility will provide transportation and recreational amenities on site, so the impact to the public parks and roads wouldn't be as significant. This is a view of Kahaopea Street looking west towards the highway. This is Awapuhi Street on the right-hand side, and so the proposed driveway would be located directly across from that in this area here. This is a view of Kahaopea Street looking east. The property is on the right here. The proposed driveway would generally be located in this location here at the bottom of the hill. You can see there's quite a steep grade. There is an existing driveway off to the right in this location here. And, this is just a view looking onto the property. It's very heavily vegetated. This is—this is another view. This is the highway on the right side of the slide. You can see the existing driveway is located very close to the intersection. And, this is a view of the property standing at the existing driveway looking towards the east towards the drainage way. And, this is a view of the property. The property is in the background here. This is Kahaopea Street here, and then you can see the highway in the background as well. This is standing over near the Puainako Shopping Center sidewalk looking towards the property so, you can see the intersection. The Planning Director is recommending a favorable recommendation be forwarded to the Council for all of the requests to amend Conditions C, G, and Q. We also provided to you this morning a yellow piece of paper with some revised conditions, and those are related to Condition G and Condition I, and it's just to clarify a few points of those conditions. EXHIBIT A 3 And, lastly, the Applicant submitted, shortly after you got your Background and Recommendation Reports, the Applicant submitted an updated diagram of their proposed transportation improvements along Kahaopea Street. And, before I conclude the presentation, the next item on the agenda is a request for a Use Permit on the same property for the assisted living facility. I was going to wait to go into the transportation improvements in the next presentation, but if the Commission would like to see a diagram of those improvements and have me explain those now, I can do that now. It's up to you. Yes? HENKEL: That's fine. JACKSON: Okay. Let me go forward then. Okay, the Applicant did a traffic study for the assisted living facility and their proposed commercial development, and the traffic study recommended that the west leg of this intersection—this is Kahaopea Street and then the highway running north -south. And, this would be Baskin-Robbins, Subway and then the subject property would be in the bottom east corner here. So, the traffic study recommended that this storage lane here on the west leg of Kahaopea Street be extended, and so I believe the Department of Public Works, Traffic Division, has agreed to work with DOT to extend that left - turn pocket I believe about 25 feet to add more storage. So, you can see they're actually going to change the lane configuration and add additional storage. Right now, there is a through -lane and a left -turn lane, and then a separate right -turn lane, and they're going to change it to a dedicated left -turn lane and a combined through, right -turn lane. So, in addition to that, the Applicant is also going to improve their frontage along Kahaopea Street so this is along the east leg of the intersection. You have the highway here. Kahaopea Street. This is the subject property here. Currently, it's a narrow two-lane road. It's also steep. The Applicant, as I mentioned before, is proposing a driveway off of, directly across from Awapuhi Street, and then they are going to be providing ten feet of road widening along their frontage with curb, gutter, sidewalk drainage improvements. And, so you can see that will change the lane configuration a little bit. Now, there will be not as sharp of a turn here. It's a pretty sharp turn right now going onto Kahaopea Street, so this radius will be improved, and then you'll have a through lane in the eastbound direction. You'll also have turn pockets into Awapuhi Street and then into the project driveway in this location here. And, then the road will be widened so that there will be a dedicated left -turn lane onto the highway, and a combined through and right -turn lane onto the highway. So, with that, that concludes my presentation. Thank you. HENKEL: Thank you, Maija. Are there any questions from the Commissioners for staff? I have one question. Maija, is there—there's not going to be a right turn out, right turn in situation there, right JACKSON: No, that's a full HENKEL: coming from the subject property EXHIBIT A 4 JACKSON: access driveway. HENKEL: Okay. Thank you. Will the Applicant and/or their representative, please come forward? Good morning. YEH: Good morning. HENKEL: Will you raise your right hand? Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter before the Planning Commission? YEH: I do. DEWALD: I do. HENKEL: Okay, please proceed. Use the microphones, and state your name and where you reside. YEH: Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the Planning Commission. My name is Tom Yeh, representative of the Applicant, and here with me today is John DeWald who is a principal of the Applicant Rhodes Moore, LLC. I wanted to thank staff for the great Background Report and Recommendation. I'm not sure what else we have to say. I mean, the property over the years has, hasn't been developed because it does have challenges, you know, involving both traffic and drainage issues, but I think from a perspective of, you know, creating a great economic use for the property while meeting what we consider to be a pretty high need for assisted living facilities here in East Hawaii that will give residents an opportunity to stay here as opposed to go to other places like Honolulu or even Kona side, the Applicant is also in conjunction with its engineering representative who's also here, Yen Wen Fang, come up with a pretty good plan for dealing with both with drainage improvements, accommodating those issues as well as the traffic issues that are generated by the project. So, I think with the road widening, the restriping, the addition of turn lanes, we're gonna have a pretty good, sustainable project. There's another component that was shown on the map which is also a commercial segment which is also why we felt, you know, that one of the revised conditions that was presented to you, does allow that to also be subdivided out and not be tied necessarily with the assisted living facility. But, with that, we're open to questions or comments or anything of that nature. HENKEL: Mr. Yeh, did you get the Planning Director's Background Report and Recommendation? YEH: We did. We did. As well as the revised conditions, and we're in agreement with them. HENKEL: Okay, thank you. EXHIBIT A 5 YEH: Thank you. HENKEL: Commissioners, any questions for the Applicant? Thanks, you may be seated. YEH: Thank you. JACKSON: Excuse me, Mr. Chair, before you take public testimony, I forgot to mention there are a few corrections needed to the Background Report. I'd just like to point those out and see if the Commission would be agreeable to the Department making those corrections. On Page 7 of the Background Report, under "Access," it says the driveway—this is the existing driveway that I showed you in the photos. The driveway is located in a road easement that provides access to Parcel 30. That statement actually is incorrect. The driveway is located, the existing driveway is located just east of the existing easement. The easement is located along, it runs along the highway where all of the tall trees are located. So, I'd just like to make that correction on the record. And, then, one other is on Page 2 also related to access is the fourth line down. It says there will be no access at Kanoelehua Avenue, Highway 11. The primary access will not be on the highway. It will be off of KanoeKahaopea. But, the Applicant is, has been trying to see if Department of Transportation would allow like an emergency type access in case their primary access is blocked or it can't be used for some reason. So, I'd like to correct that on the record, too. HENKEL: Thank you. Commissioners, any questions? CLARKSON: Yes, I have a question. Is that Road Easement A, is that the access for the residents that appears in the aerial photo? JACKSON: Yes. CLARKSON: Okay, thank you. HENKEL: We have two individuals signed up to testify for public testimony. Steph Salazar and Russell Doi, please come forward. Would you please raise your right hand? Do you affirm, swear or affirm to tell the truth in this matter now before the Planning Commission? SALAZAR: Yes. DOI: Yeah. HENKEL: Thank you. Steph, you can go first. Please introduce yourself. Speak into the microphone. You've got three minutes. Christian Kay over here has the sign. He'llnotify you when your time is up so. SALAZAR: Thank you. EXHIBIT A 6 HENKEL: Thank you. SALAZAR: I'm a neighbor. I've lived on that property that you referred to that has a 20 -foot wide easement. My personal concerns are that I maintain my easement. I do not want to move my easement. I'm concerned about that's also my water easement because I believe the water main is there. So, my water meter is there also. I'm concerned about runoff from the heavy rains, disruption to my personal access along that easement MIYASATO: Excuse me. Sorry to interrupt, yeah, but Chair do we need to swear them in as HO: They were sworn in. HENKEL: We swore them. SALAZAR: Yeah, we rose our hand. MIYASATO: Could I have your name, please? SALAZAR: Stephanie Salazar. MIYASATO: Stephanie. Okay, thank you. SALAZAR: I'm concerned about having a massive three-story development that I think, think doesn't suit the neighborhood, and the Planning Department notes that there is a density above the General Plan recommendation, and they base that overage based on a 6 -acre parcel which I asked Maija how do they calculate that on six acres when most of that is in the flood zone. So, it doesn't seem that, that makes sense that you would calculate density using the flood zone area and then say that you're going over that density. I've spoken to a few members of the community, and one woman said she didn't feel it was a good location. Concerned about traffic. Crossing the highway is very dangerous. I feel it doesn't fit the area. We've had a recent fireworks, and I can't imagine old folks living there. This facility will not be like Hale Anuenue or Life Care that have, I think, have easier access via ambulance to the highway. ItI spoke to John before, the developer, and he said it is a private pay. They won't take Medicare. So, it's kind of like, to me, more like a rich man's old folks' home. And, as far as getting rid of the Q fair share for parks and roads, this is not like Kamana where we have a lot of elderly people going for exercise classes, so I don't think they should be relieved from providing any fair share especially for recreation which is very important for elderly in our community. EXHIBIT A 7 I thought the County way back planned to extend Awapuhi to connect back to the Old Ruthie Subdivision all the way toward Kawailani Street, and I don't know why Kahaopea Street was not improved earlier. Fresh Onishi said they were waiting for Roland to make the improvements. He's gone back to, I think, 1996 to make these, you know, keeps asking for extensions. And, so that's my primary concern is keeping my easement when Roland went for the, the owner went for renewal before he asked us. And, I don't want to drive through a flood zone. I lived there long enough to know it floods, and I don't want to have to go onto the highway, right turn in or right turn, you know, access only. That means I'd have to drive all the way around the block, and I don't want to have to drive through what I know is a flood zone. HENKEL: Thank you, Ms. Salazar. Any questions from the Commissioners for Stephanie Salazar? I have one. I was wondering. Maija, with your pointer, could you show us your, Ms. Salazar's residence? DOI: And show `em how the water come down in the back, too. HENKEL: Thank you. SALAZAR: So, my concern was when I talk about runoff is because of the slope goes down, right where my house is DOI: —She go over the SALAZAR: the white building where the bushes are, it goes straight down, and it does flood into, you know, over my head high. And, I'm concerned about when they develop, more water is going to come down and also at the end of my easement where it goes onto the highway, there is also a raised culvert, and my mailbox is there. And, in the prior application five years ago, the developer wanted to have the highway make a right -turn lane and cut into the easement, and I said I don't think you can do that because it's Land Court land. This is not a public benefit community. It's a private enterprise, so I don't see how they can take from me for a private development, and as I said before, when Roland made the application, if it comes with problems, if he bought a pig in the poke, that's his problem. I don't think that I should be damaged by his need to make a profit by selling his property and making a development. HENKEL: Okay, thank you, Ms. Salazar. Russell Doi? You've been sworn in. Please speak into the microphone. You've got three minutes, please. DOI: Yeah, I came today and talk about that place. I lived there 50 years, maybe more. I seen all Pana`ewa grow. Came from nothing to what it is today. One of my concerns I guess would be the flooding, and the last time I came about four years ago, I complained that they wen dump plenty material and rubbish in the flood zone. The guy came and check. Till this day, that rubbish and shit is still in the flood zone, and how can be next door where Hank Correa wen subdivide, one Filipino guy when throw material over the cement wall into the flood zone, and County wen make him take `em out, and he had to hire my friend for take `em out. So, one small potato guy, you pick on him, but Roland, they throw hundreds of cubic yards of rubbish in the FEMA flood zone and nobody do jack shit. So, something wrong with County or I guess they EXHIBIT A was Billy's friends so everything can slide, but maybe Harry can do something now and be little bit more honest about what's going on behind closed doors. Second of all, these guys like build one three-story building. We got one big problem with car exhaust. I live there. I always there. Certain time of the day get real bad. If they build one building, going block the air circulation. Going even make the exhaust more intense, and ten years from now, going get even more cars and stronger exhaust. Car exhaust is poison, so you telling me that it's okay to increase the poison level where I live and nevamind `cuz I only one guy and these guys bigshot, plenty money, let `em go. So, it's kind of like the view I get with this development, so if you guys let `em go through, it's, that's what I feel you letting happen. HENKEL: Thank you, Mr. Doi. Are there any questions from the Commission for Russell Doi? Is CLARKSON: No, I have a question for the first testifier. I'm sorry HENKEL: Please. SALAZAR: Stephanie. CLARKSON: Stephanie? SALAZAR: Yes. CLARKSON: When you are making a—how do you make your entrance into your driveway off of Kahaopea Street? SALAZAR: The driveway that exists now does go beyond my 20 feet, and that was what was at the old Hirose Nursery for about 30 or 40 years. So, that driveway, we've been using, and the developer has told me that he's going to need to use that property, so I'll be stuck to my 20 feet. So, we may have to remove some trees. We've already bulldozed, some area there. And, I go right onto Kahaopea and turn right or left. CLARKSON: Okay. CouldMaija, could you please, I just want to clarify in my mind that DOI: —Going be danger. CLARKSON: —Can you go back to the, the proposed road improvement drawings? JACKSON: Let me show you a photo to that might help. This photo here. So, here's the highway. Essentially, Stephanie and Russell's easement is from here 20 feet over to here, and then the existing driveway is just to the east of that. CLARKSON: Okay. EXHIBIT A 9 JACKSON: So, when Stephanie said they would take out trees, they would have to take out all the trees here along the highway to create their, their new driveway. SALAZAR: And can you show us where— CLARKSON: —Can we see the, this, the proposed improvement plan? Yeah. JACKSON: This one. So, let's see. It's very, very light, but you can kind of make out the existing driveway right here and here. CLARKSON: Right, but where is the property line? JACKSON: The property line is here? CLARKSON: On the edge of Kanoelehua? JACKSON: Yes. CLARKSON: Right there. JACKSON: And, so, on this next diagram, you can see the edge of the property line and then the 20 -foot easement is here, and then the existing driveway comes right along in this area here. CLARKSON: I mean, far be it from me to, has anybody approved this plan at Public Works? I don't see—okay, so if, if she has to use that 20 -foot easement, the radius of the curve is going to be very shallow. I can't see how anybody could come off of Kanoelehua and make an immediate right turn basically a u -turn going back down the driveway. And, with the left -turn lane and the accumulator left -turn lane there, how, you wouldn't be able to turn left off of Kahaopea. DOI: Onto Kahaopea. CLARKSON: Yeah, how, how? I just don't see how the access is going to be DOI: —Army tanks you need. CLARKSON: is going to be feasible. I mean, just to me. HENKEL: Maija? JACKSON: So, from a traffic safety perspective, it's not the most ideal situation obviously? DOI: Suicidal. JACKSON: And, I did speak to the DPW Engineer yesterday about this, and basically what I asked is will Public Works issue a permit to work within their right-of-way if Stephanie and EXHIBIT A 10 Russell should come in and want to, you know, build their driveway within their easement off of the road. And, my understanding is that the Applicant has tried to negotiate with Russell and Stephanie to relocate their easement along the new proposed access, and Public Works engineer said they would evaluate the status of that relocation and then look at it from a traffic safety perspective. But, ultimately, Russell and Stephanie do have a legal access easement to Kahaopea Street. DOI: And that new driveway is in the flood zone they get `em. HATA-FINLEY: Microphone, please. SALAZAR: Microphone. DOI: Oh. The new driveway is in the flood zone, and when I told the developer they gotta make one culvert across Kahaopea Street so the water flows underneath the road, they said no. So, you going end up like Kawailani Street where when it rain hard, you no can even cross the road because the water flow over the road. I don't know even how the County when approve that because at Kawailani Street, supposed to get one big culvert so the water go under the road. And, at Kahaopea Street, too. So, all this flood, they should start it from Kawailani, go down Kahaopea, all the way to Puainako, and develop that all one time. Otherwise, you going get one haphazard elevation and then when somebody going build something, going be hard for connect one flood zone to the next. So, if somebody had brains, they would make that flood zone one time from Kawailani Street all the way through. HENKEL: Mr. Doi. Excuse me to interrupt, but what we're talking about right now is your access and right-of-way. Did the developer offer to improve your accessibility? Right-of-way? Mr. Yeh, do you have a comment on that? YEH (from audience): You know if I may— HATA-FINLEY: Microphone. HENKEL: Could you come up? YEH (from audience): Thank you. YEH: You know, the present, current conditions, if you were to take a look at where their easement is, is directly parallel to and adjacent to Kanoelehua. It's not being used now for probably several reasons. One is there are trees in that location. Number two, the previous owner, current owner and previous owners allowed Mr. Doi and Ms. Salazar to use the existing driveway location even though it's not a legal one for them, and they use that because the other existing easement really isn't a safe one whether we're talking about existing conditions now or in the future. So, I just wanted to make clear to the Commission that, that driveway relocation doesn't make sense period. Now, then, or in the future. What we have proposed to both Mr. Doi and Ms. EXHIBIT A 11 Salazar is to allow them to use the driveway that we are proposing to place in at the intersection with Awapuhi Street which is a much safer one for everyone. That apparently has not sat well with them for some reason. As Maija indicated as an adjunct for supplement to the Background Report, there is going to be a proposed, and we're working out with DOT now, an access that Maija, maybe if you can maybe point to the actual site plan location? So, if you can see where that roundabout is basically, that would be the proposed alternate access in case the driveway itself actually gets flooded or is impassable for any reason. It would be a direct access for Mr. Doi and Ms. Salazar to come out onto Kanoelehua while avoiding that driveway location. One of the, one of the problems with respect to drainage is this. Is there's discussions about trying to put a culvert underneath the driveway and concentrate the flow as it crosses Awapuhi, I mean Kahaopea, but you can't do that. Basically, what the developer is proposing to do with the respect to their development is something that FEMA requires, which is whatever water is coming off of that property now, in location, volume, and velocity, has to be the same. You cannot be changing drainage as it exits the property. What the developer will do is any water that's generated on site from its development whether its buildings, parking locations, or otherwise, needs to get dealt with through drywells. So, we're not adding any water to what exists now, but we can't change what comes across the road. That's just a given that we cannot change. We'd like to do that, but we no can. So, in trying to come up with some options for the, for Ms. Salazar and Mr. Doi, we've given them a very good option which is come across that driveway where it's going to be located, come out onto Kahaopea, and that's going to be basically the safest, most appropriate way for them to get in and out to their property. One of the other things that I did want to talk about, too, is that when we talk about fair share, if we take a look at Parks requirements for impacts for something like this Use Permit proposes, we have residents who are elderly residents whose, whose lives and aging has occurred in conjunction with parks development in the County. So, it's not like they're coming in from somewhere else requiring park improvements. They are already probably going to be the prime, the primary bulk of them is going to be existing residents. They don't use most of the park facilities now, and there will be exercise at that kind of facility on site provided to them for their needs that they need at this particular age sequence that they're at right now. Thank you. CLARKSON: Yes, this brings up another question I have. I know we're talking to stuff that relates probably more to the Special [sic] Permit application, but are the residents in this proposed facility restricted to current residents of Hawaii County or the State of Hawaii? YEH: I don't believe so, and I don't think you can do that. CLARKSON: I wouldn't think you could either, but YEH: Right. CLARKSON: how, I'm just going to ask, how do we know that a significant fraction of the people that would be living in this facility wouldn't be from out of State? EXHIBIT A 12 YEH: I think from a demographic standpoint and being close to where your residents and family is, that's probably going to be the actual dynamic, all right? And then, similarly for traffic perspectives, most of them are not gonna be driving. They will be living on site. There will be transportation services provided by the facility. Thank you. HENKEL: Thank all of you. We really appreciate your testimony. If you could return to your seats now. We have one more person signed up to testify. Dean Au, please? Would you raise your right hand? Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Planning Commission? AU: I do. HENKEL: Thank you. Please state your name, where you reside, and you have three minutes. Speak into the microphone. You know the drill. AU: Thank you, Commissioners. My name is Dean Au, and I represent the Hawaii Carpenters' Union. We represent 6,000 plus working families here in the State of Hawaii. And, we have, we have a couple comments that we would just like to make regarding this project. You know, this is a great project for the community, and it's a much needed service, but through past projects that were similar like this, our main comment would be the construction aspect. You know, we've got a lot of local, working families, and we would like to get as much of our families to work. You know, from my understanding, the developer is committed. Locally, they've already hired local architectural firms, so from my understanding, it seems to be on the right track, so that's just a comment and concern that we have is local construction workers. A lot of our members are travelling out to the Kona side for work. It would be nice to have a lot of our Hilo construction workers here would be good. You know, not—not only our organization but our whole Hilo community, so I just wanted to make that comment. HENKEL: Thank you. Are there any questions for Mr. Au from the Commission? You may be seated then. I don't have anyone else signed up to testify so, we can look for a motion to close public testimony. DELA CRUZ: So moved to close public testimony. HENKEL: Is there a second? MIYASATO: I second. HENKEL: It's been moved and seconded to close public testimony. All in favor say aye? COMMISSIONERS: Aye. EXHIBIT A 13 HENKEL: Opposed? Okay. Then, we'll look for a motion for action and discussion on this agenda item now. IKEDA: Mr. Chairman, I'll make the motion. I move that a favorable recommendation be forwarded to the County Council on the application to amend Condition C, G, and Q of Ordinance No. 12-111, REZ 840 based on the Planning Director's recommendations and findings which shall be adopted. DELA CRUZ: Second. HENKEL: It's been moved by Commissioner Ikeda and seconded by Donald [sic]. Would you do the roll call vote, please, Maija? JACKSON: Mr. Ikeda, was that including the Department's proposed revisions? IKEDA: Yes, yes. JACKSON: Okay, I'll take the roll. Commissioner Ikeda? IKEDA: Aye. JACKSON: Commissioner Dela Cruz? DELA CRUZ: Aye. JACKSON: Commissioner Clarkson? CLARKSON: Aye. JACKSON: Commissioner Miyasato? MIYASATO: Aye. JACKSON: And Chair Henkel. HENKEL: Aye. JACKSON: Okay, the motion passes five, zero. HENKEL: Thank you. EXHIBIT A 14 The discussion ended at 9:43 a.m. Respectfully submitted, Sarah Y. Hata-Finley, Secretary Windward Planning Commission 15 EXHIBIT A