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LAND USE COMMITTEE Council of the County of Maui MINUTES September 10, 2007 Kihei Community & Aquatic Center Main Hall CONVENE: 6:03 p.m. PRESENT: Councilmember Michael J. Molina, Chair Councilmember Joseph Pontanilla, Vice-Chair Councilmember Michelle Anderson, Member Councilmember Gladys C. Baisa, Member Councilmember Jo Anne Johnson, Member Councilmember Danny A. Mateo, Member Councilmember Bill Kauakea Medeiros, Member Councilmember Michael P. Victorino, Member EXCUSED: Councilmember G. Riki Hokama, Member STAFF: Tammy M. Frias, Committee Secretary Carla M. Nakata, Legislative Attorney Ken Fukuoka, Director Camille Sakamoto, Committee Secretary Pauline Martins, Committee Secretary Stephanie Ohigashi, Executive Assistant, Councilmember Michael P. Victorino Deanna Hookano, Executive Assistant, Councilmember Michael P. Victorino Jock Yamaguchi, Executive Assistant, Councilmember Michelle Anderson Shari Sears, Executive Assistant, Councilmember Michelle Anderson ADMIN.: James A. Giroux, Deputy Corporation Counsel, Department of the Corporation Counsel Donald Kanemitsu, Lieutenant, Department of Police Wade Anzai, Sergeant, Department of Police Robert Stuhr, Detective, Department of Police William Gannon, Detective, Department of Police Wendell Loo, Detective, Department of Police Scott Migita, Detective, Department of Police OTHERS: Charles Jencks, Owner’s Representative, Honua`ula Partners, LLC Gwen Ohashi Hiraga, Munekiyo & Hiraga, Inc. Tom Tezak Bob Cella Patricia Boettger Michael Duberstein LAND USE COMMITTEE MINUTES Council of the County of Maui September 10, 2007 (Kihei) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Tom Cook Mark Isenmann Madge Schaefer, Maui Meadows Neighborhood Association Clarence Tavares Charlotte McLaughlin Jesse Spencer, Spencer Homes Lance Holter Warren Blum Cambria Moss John Naylor Mary Groode Angie Hoffman Dan Grantham Nicholas J. Vaughn Mike McCormick, Maui Meadows Neighborhood Association Amy Chang Koree Hoopii Jesse Kong Colin McCormick Jimmy Conniff Joan Martin Joy Gaston Lori Sablas Dennis Wainui Elaban Pat Borge Kimokeo Kapahulehua Mele Coleman Richard Michaels David Amack Robin Newbold Wayne Nishiki Kahekai Nishiki Lila Sherman Lisa Buchanan Bill Kamai, Hawaii Carpenters Union Local 745 Osheana Tashombe Roger Pleski Mary Lansel Lucienne deNaie, Project Manager, Maui Tomorrow Foundation, Inc. Bonnie Newman Anita Wintner Robert Wintner, President, Snorkel Bob’s David Painter, Human Resource Director, Dorvin D. Leis Company, Inc. Vernon Ta`a, Plumber & Fitters Union Local 675 - 2 - LAND USE COMMITTEE MINUTES Council of the County of Maui September 10, 2007 (Kihei) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Daniel Kanahele Jonathan P. W. Lee, Plumber & Fitters Union Local 675 George Aikala, Laborers Union Local 368 Samson Harp Cody (Koko) Nemet James Williamson, President, Maui Meadows Homeowners Association Ilona Rahn Maury King Ray Van Wagner Larry Mischle, Maui Wedding Association Paul Lono Amanda Dayoan Kenny Barr Terry Sakevitz Shawna Griffiths Thomas Kuliolio-Juan Jeff Von Schmauder Zaira Blasini Unmani Cynthia Groves Kenneth “Bro K” K. Hoopai David K. Hoopai Joyclynn Costa James Sagawinit Eldon Liu Amanda Mizner Solomon “Bully” Hoopai Perry O. Artates, Executive Director, State of Hawaii Operating Engineers Industry Stabilization Fund Mary Hultquist John Hultquist George Chyz Stephen Secor Paul Keaukai Rivera Fred Spanjaard Mimmie Hofmann Hermine Harman Judith Carroll Maurice Jack Reindhardt Patricia Corbat Gene Zarro Chris Mentzel Kahealani Naeole William S. Tully Jodi Sussman - 3 - LAND USE COMMITTEE MINUTES Council of the County of Maui September 10, 2007 (Kihei) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Tasha Kama Mahina Hoku Kama Ken Stover, Board Member, Maui Meadows Homeowners Association Dottie Hughes Kalei Hoopai Keoki Hinol Steven Newhouse Ken Owen John Kristel Tamara Paltin Volker Weiss Thomas J. Higgins Kenneth Higgins Elizabeth Poole Charles Page Renee Riley Sappho Henderson Chisa-Lee Dizon Paanaakala Baybayan Lala Caballero Gilbert McCrary Juno Comilang Ian Fisher Wayne Higa Jason D. Groode Arthur R. Greenleaf Kathy Bungarz Eric Dee John Belles Lynn Wellner Stephen West, International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Rob Parsons Todd Cramer Jesse Guerin Ray Skelton Alyssa Sved Steve Forman Suzanne Lahl Sean Curran Nicholas Kaplan Michael Friestat Wayne Bachman Soren Jensen Rommar Pentecostes - 4 - LAND USE COMMITTEE MINUTES Council of the County of Maui September 10, 2007 (Kihei) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Kuilani Elaban Ivan Lay, Hawaii Carpenters Union Kam Yai Young Erika Lechuga-DiSalvo Scott Lechuga DiSalvo Mary E. Amon Shannon S. Guillermo Francis Garcia Others/Additional attendees (20) PRESS: Matthew Thayer, The Maui News Claudine San Nicolas, The Maui News Wendy Osher, Pacific Radio Group Akaku--Maui County Community Television, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ITEM NO. 38: CHANGE IN ZONING AND PROJECT DISTRICT PHASE I APPROVAL FOR “HONUA`ULA/WAILEA 670” RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT (C.C. No. 01-334) CHAIR MOLINA: . .(gavel). The Land Use Committee meeting for Monday, September 10th, 2007, is now in session. Thank you, South Maui, for coming out to our meeting this evening. I’d like to introduce the Members in attendance tonight. The Vice-Chair of the Committee Joe Pontanilla, Councilmembers Gladys Baisa, Michelle Anderson, Jo Anne Johnson, Danny Mateo, Bill Medeiros and Mike Victorino. We were informed today at 3:30 that our Council Chair Riki Hokama will not be in attendance tonight. The intent of our meeting tonight is to give the Kihei community an additional opportunity to be heard on Land Use Item 38. To the Members, due to the number of testifiers--we have 85 sign-ups at this point--I would ask Members to, if you do have questions of the testifier, be very direct, ask questions, and to keep your comments to a minimum, because a lot of people have come out here tonight and want to be heard in front of us. So out of courtesy to the visiting public tonight, please keep that in mind. And to the public, the Chair wants to go over a few ground rules with you. Please turn off all cell phones and pagers so as not to disrupt our testifiers this evening. In addition to that, please state your name and any organization that you may be representing. So with that being said, let me also acknowledge our Staff here tonight, our Committee Secretary Tammy Frias as well as we have Pauline Martins, and Camille Sakamoto who has joined us to accommodate you this evening. And we have our Legislative Analyst [sic] Carla Nakata who has joined us. It is highly unlikely tonight we will be able to actually deliberate based on the amount of testifiers unless we go into the wee hours of the morning. However, we are prepared to do so. - 5 - LAND USE COMMITTEE MINUTES Council of the County of Maui September 10, 2007 (Kihei) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Just a couple of weeks ago the Council went nearly eight hours straight without a break, so we’ve got some very tough individuals here that can endure a lot. So anyway we will try to do this all in one evening, if it’s possible, to hear your concerns with regards to LU-38. So with that being said, you’ll be given three minutes to testify with one minute to conclude. So we shall start off with our first testifier, Tom Tezak followed by Bob Cella. .BEGIN PUBLIC TESTIMONY. MR. TEZAK: Good evening, Council Members. Thank you so much for the opportunity to come out to Kihei and make my voice be heard. I appreciate it, and I guess I’m first but surely not last. So my name is Tom Tezak, and I live in south Kihei on Moolio Avenue. I’m a realtor in the market area here, and I specialize in real estate in South Maui. I believe the need for affordable housing is very, very apparent with the prices that where they’ve gone. I also believe Honua`ula has the ability to provide affordable housing as well as providing market, market housing for our, for our community. One of the things I really have seen in the past years that I’ve been here is that the previous restrictions on development are one of the main factors of the recent and rapid escalation in our housing prices. That is why, again, I think it’s so important to support this development. As we know the real estate market has now stabilized. This project will provide market housing when sales start picking up again, which we know will happen. If we wait until the upward spiral starts again, it will be too late and the basic supply and demand parameters will kick in and send market prices out of control, and dragging in our, dragging affordable housing that currently exists along with them, and we will have missed the opportunity to create and, more importantly, retain the affordable housing that we can, can put out to the market. We are just starting the baby boom retirement cycle of nearly 72 million retirees. The previous generation of retirees retired somewhere in the vicinity of 44 million retirees. That additional retirement population will be retiring, they’re buying second homes, they are moving all over to the, the best destinations in the world, and I believe, as you do, Maui is