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PLANNING COMMITTEE
February 20, 2013
A meeting of the Planning Committee of the Council of the County of Kauai,
State of Hawaii, was called to order by Councilmember Nadine K. Nakamura,
Chair, at the Council Chambers, 4396 Rice Street, Suite 201, Lihu`e, Kauai, on
Wednesday, February 20, 2013, at 9:39 a.m., after which the following members
answered the call of the roll:
Honorable Tim Bynum
Honorable Ross Kagawa
Honorable JoAnn A. Yukimura
Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura
Honorable Gary L. Hooser, Ex-Officio Member
Honorable Jay Furfaro, Ex-Officio Member
Excused: Honorable Mel Rapozo
Minutes of the January 23, 2013 Planning Committee Meeting.
Upon motion duly made by Councilmember Bynum, seconded by
Councilmember Yukimura, and unanimously carried, Minutes of the
January 23, 2013 Planning Committee was approved.
Minutes of the February 5, 2013 Planning Committee Meeting.
Upon motion duly made by Councilmember Bynum, seconded by
Councilmember Yukimura, and unanimously carried, Minutes of the
February 5, 2013 Planning Committee was approved.
The Committee proceeded on its agenda item as follows:
Bill No. 2461 A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 8,
KAUAI COUNTY CODE 1987, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO
THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE (Amendments
to the Shoreline Setback Ordinance) [This item was deferred.]
Chair Nakamura: I would like to give the members an update on what
we have been doing. I have been meeting with the Planning Department
representatives, members of the public who submitted testimony, Sea Grant, and
others to try and formulate, hear some of the opposing views, and try to see if we can
find some middle ground and some compromise for the Bill. It is a very complicated
Bill. It is taking some time, so I wanted to ask for a deferment. In two (2) weeks, we
will have Chip Fletcher here to talk about the Coastal Erosion Study, which really is
the foundation for this Amendment. At the time, we will also hopefully have an
Amendment to propose. I just wanted to ask for your indulgence for the time to work
on some of these issues. If there are no comments, I would like to open it up and see if
anyone would like to testify on this. Councilmember Yukimura.
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Ms. Yukimura: I have been trying to follow some of the discussions
on the Shoreline Setback Amendments, especially as related to the Sea Grant
comments. I know that Councilmember Rapozo and I were preparing some
Amendments for that, but it will be useful to have a couple more weeks. Thank you.
Chair Nakamura: Councilmember Bynum.
Mr. Bynum: I want to say briefly that it is a complex Bill. I am
very appreciative of the input we received from Carl Imperato, Caren Diamond,
Barbara Robeson, and Sea Grant, and I trust that we can merge those concerns and
come up with something. I appreciate the Committee Chair's work to bring all of
those elements together. I would support a deferral today.
Chair Nakamura: Thank you. We also received testimony from Tom
Shigemoto, and from Thorn Abbott.
Mr. Bynum: Right. I am just mentioning the ones that came to
the forefront.
Chair Nakamura: Thank you. If there are no further comments, I want
to see if there is any public testimony on this. Did anyone sign up? No, okay.
Mr. Kagawa moved to defer Bill No. 2461, seconded by Ms. Yukimura, and
unanimously carried.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 9:43 a.m.
Respectfully submitted,
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Council Ser ,es Assistant
APPROVED at the Committee Meeting held on March 20, 2013:
NADINE K. NAKAMURA
Chair, Planning Committee