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WINDWARD PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I HEARING TRANSCRIPT OCTOBER 3, 2013 VINCENT T.C. TAI (REZ 13-167) A regularly advertised hearing on the application of was called to order at 10:00 a.m. in the County of Hawai‘i, Aupuni Center Conference Room, 101 Pauahi Street, Hilo, Hawai‘i, with Chairman Wallace Ishibashi presiding. COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Wallace Ishibashi, Ronald Gonzales, Charles Heaukulani, Gregory Henkel, Myles Miyasato, and Raylene Moses STAFF PRESENT: Margaret Masunaga (Deputy Corporation Counsel), Duane Kanuha (Planning Director), Daryn Arai (Planning Program Manager), Phyllis Fujimoto (Staff Planner), Maija Cottle (Staff Planner), Jeff Darrow (Staff Planner), and Sharon Nomura (Secretary) ABSENT AND EXCUSED: Stephen Ono And 12 people from the public in attendance APPLICANT: VINCENT T.C. TAI (REZ 13-167) Application for a Change of Zone from a Multiple-Family Residential–2,500 square feet (RM-2.5) to a Multiple-Family Residential–1,500 square feet (RM-1.5) zoning district for approximately 3.292 acres of land. The subject property is located at the end of Hualālai Street, just west of the Hualālai Street/Hale Nani Street intersection, Waiākea, South Hilo, Hawai‘i, TMK: 2-4-028:009. ISHIBASHI: We’re on Agenda Item No. 5, Vincent Tai, Change of Zone (REZ 13-167). Maija. COTTLE: Thank you, Mr. Chair. The next application is a change of zone request. And the subject property is located in the South Hilo district, just above the police station in Hilo. So if you look at the map, the subject property is located in the middle of the map. It’s an irregular shaped lot and it’s kind of a dark red color. The police station is located in this area right here where the red dot is. Kapiolani Street is running in a north-south direction in the middle of the slide. Then you have Hualalai Street heading down towards the bay. And then coming off of Hualalai you have Hale Nani Street. This is the public housing area here. As I mentioned the police station is located here, and then in the yellow color are Single-Family Residential lots known as the Hualalai Subdivision. The subject property is currently zoned Multi-Family Residential-2.5. The applicant actually changed the zoning about three years ago. It was zoned Single-Family Residential-7.5 like the surrounding area, but it was successfully rezoned back in 2009. You can see the property to the north is zoned Multi-Family Residential-1.5, so that is consistent with the zoning that the 1 EXHIBIT A