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<br /> <br /> <br />William P. Kenoi Duane Kanuha <br /> <br />Director <br />Mayor <br /> <br />Bobby Command <br />Deputy Director <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />County of Hawai‘i <br /> <br />PLANNING DEPARTMENT <br />PUNA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN ACTION COMMITTEE <br /> <br />Aupuni Center 101 Pauahi Street, Suite 3 Hilo, Hawai‘i 96720 <br /> <br />Phone (808) 961-8288 Fax (808) 961-8742 <br /> <br />Tuesday, December 9, 2014 <br />DRAFT Meeting Minutes <br /> <br /> <br />CALL TO ORDER <br /> <br /> <br />Chairperson Patti Pinto called the Puna Community Development Plan (PCDP) Action Committee <br />' <br />(AC) to order at 3:04 p.m. in the Keaau Community Center. The following persons were present: <br /> <br />Action Committee: Sharon Daun, Patti Pinto, June Conant, Farris Etterlee and Oshi Simsarian. Susan <br />Osborne arrived at 3:13p.m. Elmer Solis, Leila Kealoha and René Siracusa were absent. <br /> <br />Staff: Larry Brown and Hans Santiago – PCDP Planners and Keiko Mercado – PCDP Planning <br /> <br />Assistant. <br /> <br /> <br />Members of the public: 7 <br /> <br />ADDITIONS TO THE AGENDA: <br /> None <br /> <br />ANNOUNCEMENTS: <br /> <br /> <br />1.Oshi announced that she would be rejoining the Pāhoa Plan Subcommittee. <br /> <br />2.Oshi announced that a Legacy Land Grant for 1.3M has been secured towards the purchase of <br />Wai’opai also known as the Vacationland Land Trust Property. The grant amounts to half of <br />the purchase price, the hope is that PONC (Public Access, Open Space and Natural Resources <br />Preservation Commission) will provide the remaining funds. <br /> <br />PUBLIC TESTIMONY: <br /> One person signed up to testify and chose to testify at the start of the <br />meeting. <br /> <br />1.Jon Olson testified on agenda item #9, Impact of the Lava. Jon believes the PCDP is what it is <br />because it’s fundamentally based on a build out number (the number of buildable TMKs which <br />translates into a population). He doesn’t believe people should be encouraged to build in Lava <br />Zones one or two in the density that has been previously allowed. Money is being wasted on <br />infrastructure and will continue to be wasted unless there are changes. <br /> <br />APPROVAL OF MINUTES: <br />June moved to approve the minutes of the November 18, 2014 meeting as submitted. Second by Farris. <br />The motion to approve the minutes as submitted passed with 5 votes aye, 0 votes nay. (Susan was not <br />yet present) <br /> <br />NEW BUSINESS: <br /> <br />1.Communication No. 2014-79 - Connectivity and Emergency Response Subcommittee <br />(CERS) Report: <br /> Marlene Hapai reported on the activities of the CER Subcommittee. While it <br /> <br />Hawai‘i County is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer <br /> <br /> <br />