2014-01-09 Windward Exh A - Item 1 HACA

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WINDWARD PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I HEARING TRANSCRIPT JANUARY 9, 2014 HAWAIIAN ACRES COMMUNITY A regularly advertised hearing on the application of ASSOCIATION (SPP 845) was called to order at 9:11 a.m. in the County of Hawai‘i, Aupuni Center Conference Room, 101 Pauahi Street, Hilo, Hawai‘i, with Vice Chairman Ronald Gonzales presiding. COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Ronald Gonzales, Charles Heaukulani, Gregory Henkel, Myles Miyasato and Raylene Moses ABSENT AND EXCUSED: Wallace Ishibashi and Stephen Ono ALSO PRESENT: Margaret Masunaga (Deputy Corporation Counsel), Duane Kanuha (Planning Director), Daryn Arai (Planning Program Manager), Phyllis Fujimoto (Planner), Jeff Darrow (Planner), Maija Cottle (Planner), Sarah Hata-Finley (Commission Secretary) and Noriko Sauer (Commission Secretary) And approximately 25 people from the public in attendance. APPLICANT: HAWAIIAN ACRES COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (SPP 845) Amendment to Special Permit No. 845 to allow additional uses within the community center, including a farmers market, and a one-year time extension to comply with Condition No. 4 (construction timeline of the community center and volunteer fire station). Special Permit No. 845 was originally approved to allow the establishment of a volunteer fire station, community center and related improvements situated on three (3) acres of land within the State Land Use Agricultural District. The property is located at the northeast corner of the intersection of Road 8 and Road C within the Hawaiian Acres Subdivision, Kea‘au, Puna, Hawai‘i, TMK: 1-6-052:002. GONZALES: All right. Let’s get right into this. We’d like to start with Item No. 1, Hawaiian Acres Community Association, amendment to Special Permit No. 845. I’d like to ask the staff for their presentation, please. DARROW: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, Members of the Planning Commission. Happy New Year. This is our first meeting of 2014. And we get to start off with Hawaiian Acres Community Association. They are requesting an amendment to their Special Permit 845, which was originally approved on July 15, 1993, for a volunteer fire station, a community center and related improvements on three acres of land. If I can direct your attention to our location map, the area of our first application is within the Puna District of Hawai‘i. More specifically, we are looking in the Hawaiian Acres Subdivision. For reference, this particular black road running in a, black line running in a north, northeast-southwest direction is Volcano Highway, Highway 11. The subject application is identified with a dark black outline. And if you’ll notice, it’s within the area that’s shaded in light blue, which represents the zoning for the area, which is mainly Agricultural 3-acres. The other colors also represent different types of zoning; the green and the blue mainly represent Agricultural zoning, the lighter yellow 1 EXHIBIT A