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WINDWARD PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I HEARING TRANSCRIPT FEBRUARY 5, 2010 VINCENT T.C. TAI (REZ 09-114) A regularly advertised hearing on the application of was called to order at 12:05 p.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, Andrew Iwashita, Zendo Kern, and Wallace Ishibashi. STAFF PRESENT: Brandon Gonzalez (Deputy Corporation Counsel), BJ Leithead Todd (Planning Director), Norman Hayashi (Planning Program Manager), Daryn Arai (Planning Program Manager), Phyllis Fujimoto (Staff Planner), Jeff Darrow (Staff Planner), Maija Cottle (Staff Planner), and Kelly Gomes (Staff to the Department of Public Works). And approximately 8 people from the public in attendance. APPLICANT: VINCENT T.C. TAI (REZ 09-114) of Zone from a Single-Family Residential – 7,500 square feet (RS-7.5) to a Multiple-Family Residential – 2,500 square feet (RM-2.5) district for approximately 3.292 acres of land. The property is located at the end of Hualalai Street, west of the Hualalai Street – Hale Nani Street intersection, Waiakea, South Hilo, Hawaii, TMK: 2-4-28:9. WOODWARD: We’ll get started on the next item. I doubt we’re going to finish it before we break at 12:30 but we will at least get started on Agenda Item No. 7. Applicant is Vincent Tai, change of zone. Okay, you got this one too, Maija? COTTLE: Yes. WOODWARD: Okay. COTTLE: Okay, this application is a change of zone request from Single Family Residential 7,500 square feet to Multiple Family Residential 2,500 square feet; and the applicant is Vincent Tai. The subject property is located in the South Hilo district. And just to orient the Commissioners, Kukuau Street runs on the top of the slide here. Kapiolani Street runs in a north-south direction here. The police headquarters are located in this brown area. And you also may be familiar with the Boscetti application that was recently taken up by the Planning Commission, those properties are located here to the north of the subject property which is outlined in red here. Most of the area is currently zoned Single Family Residential 7,500 square feet. You can also see the dark brown area which is zoned RM-1 and the light brown area here is zoned RD-3.75. The General Plan designation for the property is Medium Density Urban, which is shown in the orange, and the area in red is High Density Urban. And this is an aerial photo of 1 EXHIBIT C