if requested when testifying please do you name in the name of any organization you're represent the approval of zoning change for the downtown key a project requested by the developer krauts companies incorporated the developer has been communicating with casey a regarding this project for over a decade first of all the developers familiarize themselves with the key a mechanic community planned before the beginning of the project as a result this project conforms to the community plan we applaud that they are working to fulfill the stated needs of the community we appreciate that crowd has over time made modifications to make this a true downtown center a sustainable mixed use community that will be pedestrian friendly they have revised the project layout at our request to bring the buildings to the street like a traditional town center rather than locate the buildings at the back of the property with parking in front and a strip mall for man we are requesting that one requirement be added to the zoning approval regarding bike riders the site is an important link in the key hate bike plan is located next to the lowest street like path and he's a route used by students going to nearby local lani and key hey elementary school there must be a safe dedicated bike here are not a bike lane separated from traffic through the project to link south with the lowest street like path the community makes no distinction between a dedicated site safe bike path segregated from the motor vehicles and a bike lane which is merely a line on a roadway and declaring it for bicycles only and always at peril for motorized vehicles we were requesting that a second requirement be added to the zoning approval we guarding the wetlands to make them excessive all to residents and visitors the developer should provide education walkways on the eastern borders of the wetlands to take advantage of vantage natural resource casey a would also like to point out to the county the detrimental effect of the show me the water legislation on this project the project originally included a residential component which casey a supporter because of the county policy the developer changed the residential component to a hotel which is less useful to key a than residential housing and which will consume more water than the original plan a residential component would have contributed to economic success and sustainability of this project this can be seen by the success of the car on the village that has full occupancy in the heart of the existing you don from from far away yet again the distinction between a bike path and a bike lane another one where you want to be you know we wanted our understanding in conversations with the developer that within their project they were going to put bike lanes to go through the parking area and we were saying that you know again this is the same concept putting a bike lane in a parking lot is not safe we seem to have them all over and i can tell you as a bicycl and i watch the young kids bicycle it's dangerous when you're running through a parking lot and somebody says or says a bike lane they painted cars don't even realize it so where that's what we're looking for if you're getting bicyclists through the project itself spank a segregated somewhere behind the buildings wherever something like that good afternoon everyone my name is yuki and i'm here to testify testify to provide community support to land use three as well as across company for more than ten years i have been fortunate to work with  the company at their pilani village shopping center to do their promotions and marketing although i am not part of the development side of this company i had the opportunity to work with their shopping center management side very efficient i just wanted to give you a small glimpse of this organization through that lens the pilani village shopping center has approximately thirty four merchants and provides lots of conveniences for the mali community it ranges from groceries from safeway banking it's american savings bank of hawaii where even mortgages with bank of america they have wi fi and coffee at starbucks and provide medical services and physical therapy for a busy residents and visitors they have gas at minute stop on a few and even they provide electric electric charging stations for the project they have clothes and lots of services at their food court also they have lots of great food but that's what you can see when you go down there i want to give you a glimpse of what else they do what else across company does at the villa shopping center is they provide lots of back to school supplies for the children needy children through the queen lydia kalani children center through the ready to learn program which is actually which actually began through our late senator daniel in one thousand nine hundred eight across company through has continued this service by providing school supplies for thousands of children and family for so they can have their pencil and paper for their first day of school is very important during the holidays pil is also collects canned goods for the molly food bank as well as provide which brings value to the many families who may need a hand up at this time of the year we also collect toys for children during the holidays and we do community outreach by providing food free photos with santa we have a great santa and we also have we also do student performances with mapa and other schools this is what cross company does in the community more than just this project before you and i hope that you will support them in there and one of the primary visions was to have a walkability and a smart growth community that ties in with key hay and i really feel that the town center really represents that what actually you know kind of joined the whole community together and having talked to the most important thing is having talked to all of our owners in our in our annual meetings and this project came up  all of our owners are highly unfavorable of the project because of some of the you know some of the same concepts that we believe in a on a bill and so i don't really have a real and most of them all at full time owners i mean live there or more i would say it is a residential community and so we don't have a case in rentals nothing in there at all and rentals and no i would say about sixty would be supporting it as opposed to what would be perceived competition well i think based on our december absorption rate of those offices we are currently  we just closed a building in december of nine what we call live work units we're somebody can live on the first floor i'm sorry live on the second floor and have their office on the first floor all nine of those units have been occupied and all of the office spaces below have been occupied so we feel it's been very strong i have seen obviously there's quite a bit of vacant office space in the hay that that is available but i think it's something that's new and something modern and you know available for everybody down in that area it's been highly sought after right now with twenty units total i only have one office space and that should  be leased out tomorrow ok so you don't see it as competition then even if you had taken the spaces i really don't don because of the concept of the live work you know most of the owners want to cake so i feel kind of bad going against what everybody was saying but i've lived in the close vicinity of that roundabout where this is all going to be built just around about and every day at least once particularly around rush hour when people are going home from work that traffic gets really tight gridlock and if anything goes wrong at all i mean you can really get stuck in traffic for a couple hours that's happened a couple times and it  will take you several lights to get through the highway intersection because it backs up all the way to the roundabout so my question on the whole thing is how can we mitigate the traffic situation there the main roads that goes from the pilani highway down to south key a road and then it's basically landlocked so once you're on that road and in that area you're stuck on it there's no place else to go because little only goes  down familiar with the area only goes down a couple blocks is when a couple blocks that way and that's it is way down there well a cow doesn't have a stoplight so you don't want to use the times so anyway i was saying i don't know where the infrastructure is to support this and that's my only concern about it other than the fact that it's in a tsunami zone and it will be built next to a wetland i don't know if they're using that they're going to build on it or next to it and we really need to leave some green stuff so anyway that's all i have to say hotel you know with the key here regional park and it's phasing process of their regional park with the ball fields upcoming ball fields and things of that nature i think that hotel will be suited perfect for people from off  of some type of activity like that to accommodate the off island residents or the people coming in of any type of sports activities and i think if it's the community plan of that school so i tend to agree with you on that will you folks have any you as a couple as you have any work in this area or you're not sure at this point in time talks are ongoing not permanent that's for sure ok ok nothing guaranteed just that you guys are working on it yes ok thank you i just want to have that clarification you're welcome to any further clarification needed from the just if you're sure oh excuse me approximately two point six acres for three residential district to community business district for approximately eighteen point three acres and from or three residential district to o mr chair i do have some comments this application was submitted to the planning department back in two thousand and twelve but well before then the department had meetings with the applicant on the layout of the project  you know initially from the get go we appreciated the fact that this was an infield project and that it it was a project that was going to  l several needs or be a multi use project basically one of concerns we had initially that we expressed to the applicants was that they site their buildings close to the street and that there wouldn't be fields of parking or sees of parking along the street in the buildings towards the back of the street and they really listen to us from the beginning and  know worked with us and as you can see from the site plans you know it's a very well laid out projects it's the building designs are going to be great buildings right up to the street parking interspersed within the entire project on both sides of peak avenue they are preserving be existing wetlands so i know there was a testifier that question that if that anything was going to be built on the wetlands and that was negotiable item for the applicant they they felt from the very beginning that they weren't going to touch that it wasn't going to be part of their develop plans and so you see the definitely the green space that's going to remain there  planning commission conducted their public hearing in august of two thousand and fourteen on the community plan amendment the change in zoning as well as a special management area permit the commission recommended  community plan amendment application and they also recommended approval of the changes zoning application to the county council with one condition and basically the condition deals with pro rata share of traffic improvements as applications are before you now hopefully to become consistent that zoning would be consistent so that the estimate can be granted so once you're done with the land use application we would be able to the project consists of four properties parcel thirty located here parcel seventy six parcel eighty and parcel one fifty eight six you see the proximate three acre wetland here the vacant property parcel thirty which is currently vacant parcel eighty which is a three point five acre with land and parcel one fifty eight which is also in terms of the land use the property is in the urban state boundary on the camera can a community plan the non wetland parcels are designated as business and the two wetland areas are designated as open spaces the zoning for all the properties are r three residential and as i stated previously in two thousand and twelve when the council approved the molly island plan it included the project in the urban growth boundary as key infill and revitalization this is one of the few projects that the council specifically identified in the mali island plan as a type of development that they wanted to see within mali county in terms of what the  is requesting there we questing a community plan a men from business commercial to hotel for the two point six acre site they're also requesting the planning standards of the community plan be amended to allow for the six feet high limit that's required for technical reasons for the things that are building also in terms of the change in zoning for parcel thirty which is located on the north side of new there asking for h m hotel for the two point six acres be to community business which is approximately seven point eight acres as well as open space one for the manmade three acre wetlands for parcel seventy six and parcel one fifty eight there asking for b two community business for the nine acres parcel seventy six and the approximately one acre parcel one fifty eight parcel eighty which is the manmade wetlands there requesting one open space as noted in terms of the history of the project before  the planning commission on march twelfth two thousand and thirteen the final environmental assessment was approved as a finding of no significant impact or fonzie by the planning commission on april eighth two thousand and thirteen finally a was published in the e u q c environmental notice the thirty day appeal period when by without anyone appealing the environmental  assessment it's noted that during the mali planning commission presentation when they adopted the fonzie the commission it asked for an updated traffic impact on the report and that was done by the applicant the report was limited to bush to both the department of public works and the state department of transportation because of that reason the hearing the public hearing for the maui planning commission did not occur until almost a year later on aug twelfth two thousand and fourteen and as noted by a misquote the commission voted to recommend approval of both a community plan amendment and a change in zon with the condition cited then on december sixteenth two thousand and fourteen the department transmitted the recommendation on the community plan amendment and changes zoning to the molly county council and that's the reason fifty year old non resort local serving hotel you know as noted by mr wu the reason why they included the hotel is that at one time the k c a also various members of the community as well as the administration had noted that within the key area there wasn't any local hotel similar to the maui beach hotel and call louis and people that came for sporting events or a special family occasions like wedding luaus graduations they didn't have a place to stay with in key hades a lot of the resort hotels were basically out of the price range of most local families and for that reason they included the hundred fifty room hotel building into the project also on parcel thirty they're proposing to story commercial retail of approximately one hundred fourteen  one hundred square feet of floor area they're proposing five hundred fifteen on great parking and maintaining the three acre man made wept land that's on the property parcel seventy six which is at the corner of drive and p a k a ave they're proposing approximately ninety eight thousand square feet of commercial retail in two story buildings there are also proposing a approximately forty four thousand square foot sixty foot high they are building there also within key hey there is no a village center or town center there also proposing to create a village square and also to provide approximately six   directly adjacent to the as eco malka shopping center they're proposing a one story approximately six thousand square foot commercial retail building and seventy two on great parking this is a site plan of the proposed project for an taishan purposes this is law drive here the existing roundabout p k i avenue which separates a project this is proud parcel seventy six parcel thirty parcel eighty and parcel one fifty as noted the existing manmade wetlands would be kept as it is there is th drainage retention basin that's going to be landscape and it's approximately one hundred fifty feet the reason this is cited here as well as another retention basin here which is a approximately fifty five feet why is that the recommendation to mitigate impacts on endangered species which is primarily the seabirds is to have a buffer between the project and the and the wetlands because we were advised that the birds do not like human activity to be close to them and for that reason it wasn't included you know it was decided to put these buffers here so they cited their project further east of the wetlands on parcel seventy six this is a four story hotel building and the existing the proposed commercial building parking on parcel i'm sorry this is parcel thirty parcel seventy six they're proposing the sixty foot high they are building which is adjacent to the guy property and if you're familiar with key a you know that the hug i institute is a sixth or a building there also they wanted to take advantage of the sloping lot to set the building in place adjacent to this property line to diminish any visual impact the building may have on from either p a new or in the lower drive they also proposing that two story deck parking here this deck parking because of the slope of the property will be at the same elevation as the on street parking on surface parking so you really won't see this deck it's really lord into the topography of the property as well as you what have your proposals to store commercial buildings and this is the village square that they're proposing to develop to try to establish a town center for the key hey region they're maintaining parcel eighty as the existing wetlands and then on parcel one fifty eight is the proposals one story commercial building and the parking lot as noted by miss cool the project went through several development phasers or redesign in a you know in  response to not only the planning department the k c a as well as the administration to get to the point and the agencies to get to the point where most of the issues are resolved p going further on the development one of the major things is that we worked with the department of public works as to the improvements of drive we also work with them to establish the  entrances within the project especially the two main entrances here that was developed with the public works department that turning right turning improvements were worked out with the public works realize that there are no bike paths or bike lanes along new development is proposing to construct those bike  hotel this is a section of the hotel they're proposing like a port pushchair maybe a restaurant facility and the four storeys of rooms on your back of serv and on the parcel seventy six which is the southern part body this is a theater building that's purples the village square and your commercial building this is a rendering a schematic of what the theater building may look like you have the theater building this is the floor plan of it and this shows you of the they are the problems of the screens the height of the screens you know an area for equipment as well as the theater cd to accommodate that it would take approximately sixty feet to accommodate the building and this is the only exception to the community plan that the applicants are requesting bly this is a rendering of the project from the new looking north and as you can see they're proposing two story retail commercial the hotel is in the back background and one of the things that's important is that as noted by miss cool is that the developers worked with the department and the urban design review board to develop design guidelines so that to make sure that these buildings would look comparable to what is actually built would look like this and for that reason the design guidelines are established and the future tenants will have to follow those guidelines and for your information the design guidelines were based upon a architectural book that was done by the department that talked about commercial buildings that were traditionally built in the old towns of mali for mali island and they followed that as their guidance to come up with their design guidelines this is looking towards the village square they're trying to create that village square town center surrounded by the commercial buildings and as noted you know this is a little lower drive on the greenway because of the slope of the property as you can see you know they're proposing landscaping and much of the building of the project will be lower than the actually lower drive you know greenway so this is a rendering of what it might look like summary the community plan was reviewed in accordance with chapter two point eight zero of b molly county cold the change in zoning is consistent with the key and mckenna community plan and meets the intent  purpose of zoning districts would not adversely affect or interfere with public services would not adversely impact the social cultural economic environmental and ecological character and quality of life the besides working with the public works department on the traffic recently by letter dated march sixth the department of transportation identified what word be the improvements that would be required of the project to mitigate traffic as noted by one of your testifiers that was one of her major concerns how is traffic being mitigated so between the public works department and the department of transportation they have worked out what is a necessary traffic mitigation for the project and in terms of the bike lanes they did work with the public works department to establish that there would be bike lanes along p k i avenue and one of the major reasons why it wasn't they weren't able to accommodate it within the project gets self is that within the project you have areas where the parking stalls back up directly into the travel lane and there was a safety concern that there may be some future traffic disruption between people trying to back up into the park  guzman's question that march sixth communication from the state department of transportation i'm sure this will be discussed at the appropriate time when traffic engineers are brought up to considering that when there is item number one and item number two on that letter the first item contains point a and b and so the recommendation would result in addition to the current condition number one this item number one from the letter would become condition number two and item number two it become be now considered condition two and condition two on the letter would be condition three to the original condition one that's correct and as the chair mentioned the current condition one as well as those conditions all cite the applicant yes and the chairs recommendation would be to replace that as is standard with the name of the individual landowners in this case the parcels are owned by different entities of the crowd short you're talking about the conditions yes  and well as i mentioned will confirm that because there are different landowners for each parcel yes so we'll substitute out for the landowner name the conditions will read as the new proposed condition to the landowner shall design construct and provide the following improvements at the intersection of a highway and avenue at no cost to the state and prior to the first certificate of occupancy being issued by the county of maui col consistent with current sh t o standards the new the newly proposed condition three would read again landowner the land owner shall perform traffic signal timing optim came out i was on the case here at the time and they want to residential you know and part of the issue with them not being able to do residential units was the fact that the show me the water kind of tell them  following on the same lines you know as far as water usage are you waiting or you are you saying that it's going to be less water you she's having a hotel there first is the number of residential units that were originally considering not not at all maybe the opposite in fact it may be the opposite yes i think that's something that we want to discuss a little bit more with the african i think one of the things he did say that they are going to be using  u heard from i don't know if you heard the comments about the traffic when there is issues does the department have any plans you know when there is a an action or road closure or something like that with the extra added amount of vehicles that are going to be there does the department have any plans on doing manual traffic signal control during these kind of incidences because  specially there at one time when the line was closed and the test charge right the roundabout and everything else around it was just jam packed that's an unusual occurrence but it would be good if out beyond the general area where things really start to back up if the department had some plans to to do some sort of traffic mitigation during an unusual circumstance thank you don c yes of course during any kind of incident we are all out there directing traffic i think the incident you are trying to i personally also without directing traffic part of the issue though is manpower we have five officers at a time which covers only really five intersections so that's one of the issues as far as whenever there's an incident police have to go out and manually direct traffic no no no no no no who haha street which is running basically parallel with the development but going down off the law drive for which  down to but it doesn't need to be loni i know that but i'm just saying some of the problems is pilani get shut down which makes cells t hey rolled the only way through the two day area and there's no expanding south road not for long time to come so that's what i'm asking is that of someone a part of the plan when you guys have these emergencies thank you council victor you know i know recently they are they're talking about extending of course only to lou but that would relieve some of that traffic and then if you take into consideration the totality of developments that are going to be in the area there will be more lighted intersections specifically when our new high school is built they're also making improvements or expanding the tech park so i believe there are plans for a lighted signal at the highway and we'll look at how also possibly i believe that and the highway so there will be other lighted lighted intersections to ease traffic at least environmental management it under the understanding that the wetlands will be closed and so my my question would be in terms of the drainage that comes out it also i read briefly about a new sewer system or a system that would be in place can you explain to me how you would mitigate drainage flood drainage or i know that there's also a basin that's we don't make mistakes this is very boring i want to ask you the are one line running down how far does it does it go right in front of this project where they are one line at this point for this project he going to be clean chair and thank you for that question consul members we have been in discussion with the applicant several times regarding their drainage system and it's my understanding that they intend to use carbon filter and different types of mechanisms that would filter out the storm water before it enters into our system when during our discussion we did suggest to them to take a look  at you know different types of green streets or green technologies for their project and while it's not something that we would require part of our cold or any part of our drainage rolls  forgets develop that's something that we look at we currently have our storm water quality rules that the the applicant would also need to comply with so that's another area where you know they could look at different alternatives but in the meantime they do have different mechanisms for filtering out the storm water system or storm water in general and we have given them an opportunity to explore other options as currently in existence are they in our storm water quality rules we don't have a requirement for low impact design although in the rules itself it does give the applicant an opportunity to explore that we don't have any area because it was funny in the years past but again now that we have it set and now we have you know you know wildlife living in that area like what was mentioned earlier but one of the testifies about access for the public to go in there and and i really don't agree with it because i like to stay protective area when you let humans get touching it oh humans get in there other things happen but that's something i'll talk with the public or the people persons who brought that for for me personally i want to see this preserve and we should we do everything possible to make sure this to what lands are protected as best we can and yes i'm going to i'm sorry you know one thing i also want to point out too is that you chair and thank you ms and dyer for being here so i'm going through my planning commission meeting minutes on august twelfth it was asked and i believe it was about like synchronizing the lights hoping to address the congestion issue and traffic impact issues and i know cheer we pass we added in that one traffic signal timing optimization so my question is is that and two hundred fifty thousand dollars was needed to get this going so he wanted to address this issue now with applicants if it's to provide such funding and i just want to make sure that what we pass in our condition is in direct relation to this issue that mr donny had brought up and if you recall that discussion chair and a member cochran i i do recall that conversation and   study for those intersections those areas there i think also what the state is looking at is four pilani highway as it relates to intersection by safeway sol but we do to you know the changes zoning basically what was it taking away from i think there is discussion with mr mcdermott i don't know who mr kingsmen is but it was in dialogue with the two of them as to the workforce housing in relation to this it does become hotel and where is and it was discussed i guess that they are going to invest in projects for credits and so i don't know how is their relation between the our three original zoning and what that was going to give versus what we're getting today with the changes only with the hotel trudeau i guess can answer that the hotel will be subject to the two point one six residential work for solving policy and they will be required to provide twenty five percent of the number of hotel rooms i believe that would be around thirty eight housing units affordable housing units ok and so are you where i guess it's for applicants to answer but if you are aware of how that's going to be accomplished not at this moment usually what happens is as they get closer to the construction of the hotel they would come in before hand because they will be required to have an affordable to fifteen three fifteen three fifteen for coming in you heard some of the questions we're talking about the run off that's my biggest concern is is the cleanliness of the water the runoff that's going into the wetlands and i'm guessing i don't know if you've done the studies or not i'm guessing that the water that comes off of your system goes into the wetlands and then from the wetlands it settles and then eventually will go into the ocean  yes don we got studies on this and i think the best person to answer these questions is clifford mcconnell who's been doing the work on that chair if you don't mind  and we realize some of us may not have the benefit of the exhibits so i will clearly and concisely describe first of all the existing conditions and as you described the surface the proposed drainage management plan will will intercept and remove silt then and contaminants at three levels prior to allowing any storm water runoff to be discharged to the county quality enhancement will occur through the subsurface detention drainage system which are large subsurface chambers with internal baffle is to encourage siltation and level three will include well vegetative landscape above ground detention basins so this storm water runoff generally will go to all three levels of water quality and has meant prior to being allowed  to reach the well lands so there will be considerable opportunity to capture and retain silt and other contaminants prior to the entering the wetlands right now the existing conditions they go straight into the  have we will ensure that the drainage system will be designed such that we will respect the master plan and maximum drainage capacity of  would instead be stored in in reliable subsurface drainage chambers and even though there are man made very become very important you know and one of the things i would like to encourage i totally disagree with the fact that i want the public to have access to this area i'd like the wetlands to be protected the way they are and not to have public access to it so i will i will oppose that even though it was somebody from the community mentioned that i don't see that as being a vital part of this because this you know whenever you had mankind human beings nobody else has i have a couple more hotel itself so have you folks looked into how that was going to be accomplished yes we have several options before us and we are not going to start the hotel until that satisfied ok so nothing solidified at this point with your disk ok thank you very much and also just because i'm dealing with a project in west maui with noise and everyone understands it's a good project but it can't you know not i mean equipment going to happen or is going to happen and in particular where this is going to be located a monk's residence and you know businesses and what have you just and i  maybe forego those later in the day versus you know you know seven am kind of time frame so are you folks taken that into consideration being that it's yeah infill but also that also means you have neighboring people so higher than the other and it's not the whole theater and at the same time with your code it's for wherever the floor is but if you were to look in the section where it's unfortunate can't show it to you right now we actually depressed that part into the ground we have everything's are three but you're there looking for open space for the wetlands but those are existing sort of those are on our three that's correct o right there they're asking to amend the language of the community plan to increase the height to sixty feet because in the community plan  for commercial development in a community plan there is a policy that says commercial develop it says here establish its under urban design standards and building forms in the community step establish a maximum of thirty five feet in building height for new commercial facilities and they need they need an amendment to that to increase the height to sixty  chair trying not to repeat the numbers which stay as they're noted all fourteen k numbers i'll just read what comes before and after the t m k numbers the revised proposed bill title would read a bill for an ordinance to change zoning from our three residential to him hotel district comma to community business district comma and zero s one open space district for tax map key and they worked very hard with the community and that that's what we'd like to see with the folks doing development and ensure development it is one that was mentioned was brought up by the general process before we take the final vote here for future reference we had asked questions about jobs and that information can be found in exhibit b for the land use commission of the state of h