2013-11-25 South Kohala Community Development Plan Action Committee Minutes

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1 SOUTH KOHALA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN ACTION COMMITTEE 2 aka HUI KULEANA O KOHALA HEMA County of Hawai‘i 3 MINUTES 4 Meeting Date: November 25, 2013 5 Call to Order: 5:02 pm 6 Place: Lilly Yoshimatsu Senior Center (Waimea Senior Center) 7 67-1199 Mamalahoa Highway 8 Waimea, Hawai‘i 96743 9 Roll Call: 10 1Members Present: John Hoover, Fran Tabor, John Mueller, Christopher (Kit) Roehrig, 11 Joel Cohen, Roger Harris, Josephine (Jojo) Tanimoto 12 2Absent/Excused: 13 3Planning Department: Deanne Bugado 14 4County of Hawai‘i: Dave Hirt 15 5 Public in attendance: (Gregory Mooers, Jeannett Young, Charlie Anderson, Steven Lim 16 – left @ 6:13), (Diane Kanealii, Ray Kanealii - left @ 5:48), Mike Luce, (Michael Riehm 17 , Sonja Riehm – left @ ) 18 STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC REGARDING ITEMS ON AGENDA 19 Mike Luce – would like to have the AC place on their CIP list improvements to Kawaihai Road from 20 Lindsey Road to Longs. With all of the existing facilities and the proposed projects for the area the 21 road and sidewalks are not safe for the public and children. The first step would be an environmental 22 study. 23 PRESENTATION 24 1. Representatives from Kohala Kai LLC and Carlsmith Ball Law Offices provided the AC with 25 background information on the creation and status of the public access easement that is being 26 proposed to be turned over to the County. 27 Issues identified include that the Kohala communities feel that they were not consulted with the 28 development of the trail, that the Ala Loa historical trail should actually be the trail, that if the Ala 29 Loa trail is not re-instituted it will further erode the Hawaiian culture, the proposed trail does not 30 provide the public with an adequate access to the ocean, the process of the development of the 31 easement (communication between the community, county and state) appears to be flawed and 32 needs to be corrected. 33 Jojo Tanimoto made a motion to have the South Kohala CDP AC recommend that the County 34 Council defer action on the resolution to recommend there be further discussion between the 35 County, community and the developer. Fran Tabor seconded and the motion passed unanimously 36 2. Michael Riehm provided the AC with an overview of the existing permits as well the a proposed 37 commercial 3 lot subdivision of a parcel of commercially approved complex at the request of the 38 Planning Director. 39 The Action Committee found no issues of compliance with the CDP regarding the proposed 40 subdivision. Joel Cohen seconded the motion and the motion passed unanimously. 41 Page 1 of 4