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<br />LEEWARD PLANNING COMMISSION
<br />COUNTY OF HAWAIÒI
<br />HEARING TRANSCRIPT
<br />FEBRUARY 26, 2010
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<br />COUNTY COUNCIL INITIATED BILL NO. 125,
<br />A regularly advertised hearing on the
<br />DRAFT 3
<br />was called to order at 12:20 p.m. at the Hpuna Beach Prince Hotel, 62-100 Kaunaoa
<br />Drive, Kohala Coast, HawaiÒi, with Chairman Frederic Housel presiding.
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<br />COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Frederic Housel, Brandi Beaudet, Lani Bowman, Geraldine
<br />Giffin, Wayne Iokepa, Richard Nelson and Rodney Watanabe
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<br />STAFF PRESENT: Brandon Gonzalez (Deputy Corporation Counsel), Margaret Masunaga
<br />(Deputy Planning Director), Norman Hayashi (Planning Program Manager), Phyllis Fujimoto
<br />(Staff Planner), Jeff Darrow (Staff Planner), and Maija Cottle (Staff Planner).
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<br />And no one from the public in attendance.
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<br />INITIATOR: COUNTY COUNCIL (BILL NO. 125, DRAFT 3)
<br />Amendment to Chapter 25 (Zoning Code), Article 2, Division 1, Section 25-2-4, Hawaii County
<br />Code, 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended), relating to notification of surrounding property owners
<br />and lessees of record for change of zone applications.
<br />HOUSEL: Item No. 2 on the agenda is the County Council Bill 125, Draft No. 3,
<br />amendment to Chapter 25, the Zoning Code, Article 2, Division 1, Section 25-2-4, relating to
<br />notification of surrounding property owners and lessees of record for change of zone
<br />applications. Maija, would you like to give us more information
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<br />COTTLE: Sure. Yes, I will. Thank you. So this is a County Cou
<br />amendment to the Zoning Code. And currently, for change of zone actions the applicant has to
<br />notify all surrounding property owners within 500 feet of the subject property, if the property is
<br />located in the State Land Use Agricultural District. This amendment is to expand that to 1,000
<br />feet notification area, and the reasoning for that is that Agricultural parcels are usually larger in
<br />size; so the County Council wanted to provide additional notification to one or two lot owners
<br />over, if itÓs in the Ag land. So as it reads, it would be either 1,000 feet or two contiguous lots in
<br />all directions, whichever is the greater distance.
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<br />And then the only other change would be, currently when the applicant submits their application
<br />to the Department, they have to notify the property owners withi
<br />application to the Department. Often times what will happen is the application is missing some
<br />information, so we return it to the applicant for additional information. Sometimes that can take
<br />a few months, like if we are requesting a traffic study for example, so what happens is if the
<br />notification is already sent out to surrounding property owners, those property owners are
<br />thinking the item is going to come up to the Planning Commission or County Council for
<br />decision soon; but if itÓs still laid, they are not necessarily aware of that. So this change would
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