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<br />PLANNING COMMISSION
<br />COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I
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<br />HEARING TRANSCRIPT
<br />MARCH 1, 2012
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<br />A regularly advertised hearing on the PLANNING DIRECTOR INITIATED AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 25
<br />(ZONING CODE) OF THE HAWAI‘I COUNTY CODE 1983 (2005 EDITION, AS AMENDED), RELATING
<br />TO CREMATORIUMS, FUNERAL HOMES, FUNERAL SERVICES AND MORTUARIES, was called to
<br />order at 10:18 a.m. in the County of Hawai‘i, Aupuni Center Conference Room, 101 Pauahi Street, Hilo,
<br />Hawai‘i, with Chairman Zendo Kern presiding.
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<br />COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Zendo Kern, Dean Au, Takashi Domingo, Wallace Ishibashi, Stephen Ono
<br />and Raylene Moses
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<br />STAFF PRESENT: Ivan Torigoe (Deputy Corporation Counsel), B. J. Leithead Todd (Planning Director),
<br />Daryn Arai (Planning Program Manager), Phyllis Fujimoto (Staff Planner), Maija Cottle (Staff Planner), Jeff
<br />Darrow (Staff Planner), and Sharon Nomura (Secretary)
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<br />And eight people from the public in attendance.
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<br />APPLICANT: PLANNING DIRECTOR INITIATED
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<br />Amendment to Chapter 25 (Zoning Code) of the Hawai‘i County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended),
<br />relating to crematoriums, funeral homes, funeral services and mortuaries.
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<br />KERN: Applicant, Application No. 7, Planning Director initiated amendment
<br />to Chapter 25, Hawai‘i
<br />County Code, relating to crematoriums, funeral homes, funeral services and mortuaries. Jeff?
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<br />DARROW: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This is a Planning Director initiated amendment to Chapter 25, the
<br />Zoning Code. Previously or recently there was a County Council initiated amendment to the Code, regarding
<br />crematoriums, funeral homes, funeral services and mortuaries. And basically the County Council was trying to
<br />bring them together instead of having them separated, and to allow them a greater flexibility in zoning districts.
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<br />Through that process the Planning Director had made recommendations, as well as the Planning Commission,
<br />and forwarded up those recommendations. In the process when these requested amendments had made their
<br />way up to County Council it was unclear as to the correct process of how these amendments were to be
<br />incorporated into the draft bill. So in response to that the County Council has requested to continue the original
<br />bill forward and has asked the Planning Director to initiate a separate bill incorporating those simple
<br />amendments that we had requested previously. And so that’s all these are, those three requested amendments to
<br />that original Bill 90 that will incorporate the Planning Director’s and the Planning Commission’s requested
<br />amendments for funeral homes, funeral services, mortuaries and crematoriums.
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<br />They’re very simple, if I could just touch upon them. Basically the first one is just, there was a section in the
<br />Code that it’s just a cleanup. There were areas where we just needed to bring everything in line; and these are
<br />just very simple changes, hopefully nothing too complex. But if there are any questions, we can work with
<br />those. Thank you.
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<br />KERN: Thank you, Jeff. Are there any questions for staff? Hearing none, thank you, Jeff. Anybody want to
<br />make a motion? Oh, one second. There is nobody from the public signed up to testify on this one. Now I’m
<br />ready to entertain a motion. Commissioner Au?
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