Hawaii County Windward Planning Commission will meet May 6.
Here is the agenda provided by the Commission:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the following matters to be considered by the Windward Planning Commission of the County of Hawai‘i in accordance with the provisions of Chapters 91 and 92, Hawai‘i Revised Statutes, Section 6-7.5(a) of the Charter of the County of Hawai‘i and Planning Commission Rules of Practice and Procedure.
Public Participation: This is an in-person meeting, and the Windward Planning Commissioners will participate in person. The primary way to view or testify at this meeting is in-person; however, as a courtesy to the public, the Commission provides the following additional ways to view or testify remotely at this meeting.
Optional Alternative to Provide Remote Oral Testimony: The public has the option to provide verbal testimony at the meeting by joining Zoom. To provide verbal testimony via Zoom, please use the link below to register by noon on the day prior to the meeting: https://www.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJIsf-uqqD4vGDwdRrqfHtWB5wILkASsCSQ
Optional Alternative to View Meeting:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAFoRMb3rfWLQMPd6TAkEGA?view_as=subscriber
Please note, as this is an in-person meeting, the hearing will proceed if the Zoom and/or YouTube connections fail.
Submitting Written Testimony: To ensure timely delivery to Commissioners prior to the meeting, written testimony must be submitted no later than 4:30 p.m. on Thursday May 2, 2024, by: (1) email to WPCtestimony@hawaiicounty.gov; (2) mail to the Windward Planning Commission at 101 Pauahi Street, Suite 3, Hilo, Hawaiʻi or (3) drop-off at the Planning Department offices in Hilo at the address above or Kona at 74-5044 Ane Keohokālole Highway, Building E, 2nd Floor, Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i. All written testimony, regardless of time of receipt, will be made part of the permanent record. Please submit separate testimony for each item.
Meeting Materials/Board Packet: Pursuant to Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes Section 92-7.5, the meeting materials provided to members of this commission for this meeting is available for public inspection forty-eight (48) hours before the meeting date during regular business hours at the Planning Department offices in Hilo and Kona and by clicking ‘Board Packets’ at the following Planning Department website link: www.planning.hawaiicounty.gov/about-us/boards committees/planning-commission-applications. This information can also be requested by sending an email to WPCtestimony@hawaiicounty.gov or by calling (808) 961-8288.
CALL TO ORDER
STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC ON AGENDA ITEMS
Members of the public may provide public testimony regarding any agenda item now or at the time the agenda item is called to order.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
1. APPLICANT: BLACK SAND BEACH LLC (PL-SMA-2023-000046) Consideration and action on Petitions for Standing in a Contested Case Hearing filed by: 1) Association of Apartment Owners of Colony 1 at Sea Mountain; 2) Center for Biological Diversity; and 3) ‘Iewe Hanau o Ka ‘Āina to contest a Special Management Area Use Permit application submitted by Black Sand Beach LLC to allow for the development of a residential and commercial community consisting of approximately 225 residential and short stay units, village and wellness center, retail uses, rehabilitation and use of golf courses, and dedication of a portion of coastline as a conservation area on an approximately 147 acres portion of a larger 434-acre project site within the Special Management Area. The subject properties are located within the extent of the former Sea Mountain at Punalu‘u resort area, east (makai) of Hawaiʻi Belt Road in the vicinity of Nīnole Loop Road, Nīnole, Wailau, Punalu‘u, Kaʻū, Hawai‘i, TMKs: (3) 9-5-019: 011, 015, 024, 026, 030, 031, 033, 035; 9-6-001: 001-003, 006, 011-013; 9-6-002: 008, 037, 038, 041, and 053.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ADJOURNMENT
Notice to Lobbyists: If you are a lobbyist, you must register with the Hawai‘i County Clerk within five days of becoming a lobbyist {Article 15, Section 2-91.3(b), Hawai‘i County Code}. A lobbyist means “any individual engaged for pay or other consideration who spends more than five hours in any month or $275 in any six-month period for the purpose of attempting to influence legislative or administrative action by communicating or urging others to communicate with public officials.” {Article 15, Section 2-91.3(a)(6), Hawai‘i County Code} Registration forms and expenditure report documents are available at the Office of the County Clerk, 25 Aupuni Street, Room 1402, Hilo, Hawai‘i 96720.
Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service, or other accommodation due to a disability, please contact the Planning Department at (808) 961-8288 or WPCtestimony@hawaiicounty.gov as soon as possible. If a request is received later than five working days prior to the meeting date, we will try to obtain the auxiliary aid/service or other accommodation, but we cannot guarantee that the request will be fulfilled.
Upon request, this notice is available in alternate formats such as large print, Braille, or electronic copy.
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