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PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAII HEARING TRANSCRIPT January 19, 2007 A regularly advertised hearing on the AMENDMENT TO THE ZONING CODE RELATING TO A NEW UNIVERSITY (UNV) DISTRICTwas called to order at 10:03 a.m. at the King Kamehameha's Kona Beach Hotel, 75-5660 Palani Road, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, with Chairman William Graham presiding. PRESENT: C. Kimo Alameda ABSENT & EXCUSED: Fred Galdones William Graham Alvin Rho Andrew Iwashita Rene’ Siracusa Jeffrey McCall Rodney Watanabe Ivan Torigoe, Deputy Corporation Counsel Norman Hayashi, Planning Program Manager Jeff Darrow, Staff Planner And approximately 12 people from the public in attendance. INITIATOR: COUNTY COUNCIL Continued hearing on a draft ordinance amending Chapter 25 (Zoning Code) of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended) relating to a new University (UNV) District. GRAHAM: Our third item on the agenda for Unfinished Business this morning is a continued hearing on a draft ordinance, which amends Chapter 25 of the Zoning Code relating to a new University District. And the initiator for this proposed ordinance is the County Council. Norman? HAYASHI: Thank you, Mr. Chair. This particular matter is continued from the last Hilo meeting. And if you recall, there was one member from the public, I believe, a student from the University that testified on this proposed bill. The Hawaii County Council had submitted Bill 326 related to a new University District to the Planning Director and the Planning Commission for their review. And the bill was submitted to the Planning Director on October 17, 2006. Basically the bill states that university and college campuses should be treated distinctly from other zoning districts currently identified in Chapter 25, which is the Zoning Code. Bill 326 as drafted by the County Council, and you do have a copy of Exhibit A, basically provides for the types of uses that would be permitted in the new University District; it also establishes a height limit of 45 feet, except for a height limit of 120 feet in the City of Hilo and 90 feet for areas designated High Density Urban on the General Plan LUPAG map and this would include Kailua-Kona; it establishes a minimum building site area requirement of 7,500 square feet, a minimum building site average width of 60 feet, in other words that if you were to subdivide the property, the frontage would have to be 60 feet; and it also establishes a front or EXHIBIT B 1