2016-03-17 Leeward Exh A (USE 15-060)

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LEEWARD PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I HEARING TRANSCRIPT MARCH 17, 2016 CELLCO PARTNERSHIP DBA A regularly advertised hearing on the application of VERIZON WIRELESS (USE 15-060) was called to order at 9:35 a.m. in the West Hawai‘i Civic Center, Community Center, Building G, 74-5044 Ane Keohokālole Highway, Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i, with Chairman Brandi Beaudet presiding. COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Brandi Beaudet, Thomas Whittemore, Collin Kaholo, Sonny Shimaoka and Keith Unger ABSENT AND EXCUSED: Scott Church and Barbara Nobriga ALSO PRESENT: Danny Patel (Counsel for the Commission), Duane Kanuha, (Planning Director), Jeff Darrow (Planner), Maija Jackson (Planner), Christian Kay (Planner) and Noriko Sauer (Commission Secretary) And approximately 14 people from the public in attendance. APPLICANT: CELLCO PARTNERSHIP DBA VERIZON WIRELESS (USE 15-060) Request for a Use Permit to allow the construction of a new telecommunication facility, including a 60-foot tall steel monopalm and related facilities within a 750-square foot portion of a 13.859-acre parcel situated in the County’s Agricultural 5-acre (A-5a) zoning district. The property is located on Hooper Road, approximately 700 feet south of the Kao Road-Hooper Road st intersection, Portion of Honalo-Kawanui 1, North Kona, Hawai‘i, TMK: 7-9-003: Portion of 008. BEAUDET: Our first applicant today is Cellco Partnership dba Verizon Wireless, a request for a Use Permit to allow the construction of a new telecommunications facility. Staff? KAY: Thank you, Mr. Chair. If I can direct your attention to the screen. The applicant is Cellco Partnership doing business as Verizon Wireless. They’ve applied for a Use Permit. The subject 13.859-acre parcel is located in the North Kona District of Hawai‘i Island. It’s here outlined in red. More specifically it’s located in the Honalo area. For reference we have Hooper Road running north-south through the slide, and the subject parcel is to the north of the intersection of Kuakini Highway, Māmalahoa Highway and the Hawai‘i Belt Road. Here is a closer view of the subject parcel again outlined in red. For orientation again we have Hooper Road here, Kuakini, Māmalahoa to the south. Also please note the 750-square foot project area, which is indicated in this black dashed line. The subject parcel and much of the surrounding area is zoned Agricultural-5 acres as indicated by the light green. Properties to the north and east of the subject parcel are Agricultural-20 acres and Agricultural-5 acres as well. Directly to the south of the subject parcel is Family Agricultural-2 1 EXHIBIT A