(BIVN) – The Windward Planning Commission meets in Hilo today and there are four items listed on the agenda. One of them, involving the Liliʻuokalani Trust plan to build a community center in Keaʻau, will be heard for the first time. The other three items are continued matters. We have included video of the previous discussions for those continued items.

APPLICANT: LILI’UOKALANI TRUST (SPP 18-000202)
Application for a Special Permit to establish a community center and related improvements and activities on a 6.717-acre parcel ofland within the State Land Use Agricultural District. The property is located along the west side of Kea’au-Pahoa Road, approximately 700 feet south east of its intersection with Kukula Street and adjacent to the south ofKea’au Elementary School, Kea’au, Puna, Hawai’i, TMK: (3) 1-6-003:103.

The controversial proposal for a permit to build a water bottling plant in Hilo is requesting a reconsideration of a previous decision that deferred a decision pending a State Commission on Water Resource Management rule making process.

APPLICANT: PIILANI PARTNERS, LLC (SMA 18-000070)
Hearing on applicant’s request for reconsideration of the Windward Planning Commission’s decision, at its February 7, 2019 meeting, to defer action on applicant’s request for a Special Management Area Use Permit to develop a potable water well and bottling facility with related improvements on a 2.5712-acre parcel within the Special Management Area until the Commission on Water Resource Management updates its Water Resource Protection Plan. The subject property is located at 525 Pi’ilani Street, at the northeastern comer of the Pi’ilani Street-Mililani Street intersection, Waiakea, South Hilo, Hawai’i, TMK: (3) 2-2-033:011.

APPLICANT: WAILANI DEVELOPMENT, LLC (AMEND REZ 10-000117)
Continued hearing on an application to amend Condition D (Increase Maximum Residential Units from 518 to 700), Condition E (Reduce Maximum Commercial Area from 480,000 to 420,000 square feet), Condition I (Modify Master Plan Amendment Process), Condition N (Delete Underground Utility Requirement), Conditions Land P (Modify Construction/Completion Requirement of Ponahawai Street Extension), Condition 0 (Modify Wastewater Requirement), Condition Q (Modify Access Requirements), Condition R (Modify Curb, Gutter, Sidewalk Requirement), Condition KK (Waive Fair Share Requirement for Affordable Housing Units), and Condition 00 (Administrative Time Extension) of Ordinance No. 10 64 for the Wailani Project District, which was approved in 2010 to consist of a mixed-use community to include a 180,000 sq. ft. medical office campus, 200,000 sq. ft. of commercial space, a 100,000 sq. ft. business park, up to 333 senior housing units, up to 90 multiple-family residential units, up to 95 single-family residential lots, approximately 6.9 acres of active recreational open space, approximately 19 acres of passive open space including walking and bicycling paths and the Pu’u Honu cinder cone, and supporting infrastructure on approximately 171.504 acres of land. The subject properties are located on the west (mauka) side of the Komohana Street – Ponahawai Street intersection and northeast (makai) of the Mohouli Street Extension, Ponahawai, South Hilo, Hawai’i, TMK: (3) 2-3-044:019, (3) 2-3­ 049:053 and (3) 2-3-037:001.

APPLICANT: WILLIAMS. QUINN – PAHOA FARM & GARDEN, LLC (SPP 18-000199)
Continued hearing on an application for a Special Permit to allow the development of a 3,600 square-foot farm and garden retail store and related improvements on 32,670 square feet of land in the State Land Use Agricultural District. The property is located on the mauka (west) side of the Pahoa Bypass Road, approximately 1,800 feet southwest of its intersection with Post Office Road, Pahoa, Puna, Hawai’i, TMK: (3) 1-5-005:024.