B. COMMUNICATION (For Action)This will be of concern to anyone with business before the Planning Commission - think all those transient vacation rental non-conforming use applications filed just prior to the October 15 deadline and waiting for hearing dates.
1. Letter (11/16/10) from Planning Director Ian K. Costa to Chairman Raco and Members of the Planning Commission offering his resignation as Director of Planning for the Commission’s acceptance.
2. Letter (11/17/10) from Mayor Bernard P. Carvalho, Jr., ex-officio Planning Commission member, to Chairman Raco and Members recommending that the Commission consider the appointment of Michael A. Dahilig as Director of Planning to serve in the interim.
Joan Conrow broke this yesterday at her blog Kauaieclectic. Joan, who is bitterly hostile toward the idea of TVRs outside the visitor designation areas - and especially on lands designated agricultural - makes the interesting observation that Mayor Carvalho's recommended interim replacement, Deputy County Attorney Mike Dahilig, allegedly (correctly) advised Council member Dicky Chang prior to passage of Ordinance 904 that failure to grandfather pre-existing TVRs would lead to a raft of expensive lawsuits against the county. (It's true. Dozens of appeals of denials of non-conforming use cert applications were filed prior to passage of 904. Had 904 not passed and those appeals been denied, many would have been filed in the courts).
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