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WINDWARD PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I HEARING TRANSCRIPT APRIL 1, 2010 WAILANI DEVELOPMENT LLC A regularly advertised hearing on the application of (REZ 10-117) was called to order at 10:14 a.m. in the County of Hawaii, Aupuni Center Conference Room, 101 Pauahi Street, Hilo, Hawai‘i, with Chairman Rell Woodward presiding. COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Rell Woodward, Dean Au, Takashi Domingo, Zendo Kern, and Wallace Ishibashi. STAFF PRESENT: Brandon Gonzalez (Deputy Corporation Counsel), BJ Leithead Todd (Planning Director), Daryn Arai (Planning Program Manager), Norman Hayashi, (Planning Program Manager), Phyllis Fujimoto (Staff Planner), Jeff Darrow (Staff Planner), and Maija Cottle (Staff Planner) And approximately 32 people from the public in attendance. APPLICANT: WAILANI DEVELOPMENT LLC (REZ 10-117) a. Change of Zone from a Project District referred to as University Terrace to a Project District referred to as Wailani for approximately 171.5 acres of land. b. Repeal of Ordinance No. 04 144 which approved Project District (University Terrace) subject to adoption of item 5a above. The property is located along the mauka side of Komohana Street and bordered by Mohouli Street extension to the southwest, Ponahawai, South Hilo, Hawaii, TMK: 2-3-44:19; 2-3-49:53 and 2-3-37:1. WOODWARD: Agenda Item No. 5, Applicant: Wailani Development LLC is requesting a Change of Zone from a Project District referred to as University Terrace to a Project District referred to as Wailani for 171.5 acres of land in South Hilo, as well as repeal of Ordinance No. 04 144 which originally established the University Terrace Project District. Maija. COTTLE: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The subject property is located in the South Hilo District. The project district request area actually consists of three properties. They’re shown here in the light gray color. You can see one lot at the top of what’s Ponahawai Street running in the mauka-makai direction. You have Komohana Street running in a north-south direction, as well as the Mohouli Extension that runs up to Waianuenue and Kaumana Drive, which is on the left side of the slide. The third, let’s see, you have one lot here at the top of Ponahawai Street, one small lot over on this side and then the third lot is the remaining area. The site is currently zoned Project District. Its project district zoning is known as the University Terrace Development. And you can see the surrounding areas are mainly residential in character. There are 7500-square foot to 10,000-square foot lots in this area here which consists of the Crescent City Heights Subdivision and Kaumana Gardens Subdivision. Over here you have the Sunrise Ridge Subdivision; and you have some Agricultural land on the mauka side of Mohouli Extension, which is not currently developed yet. There’s a State-owned lot in this general area that’s zoned Agricultural. And then most of the properties on the makai side of Komohana Street which are shown here in pink are zoned Commercial. The Planning Commission has also seen a few applications recently on the makai side of Komohana Street in this general area here. That was the Sugai, Dolan and Silva applications. 1 EXHIBIT C