2019-12-04 Hearing Transcript - Thy Word Ministries USE 18-075

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And, so we've got a couple of aerial photographs. On the upper left is kind of a more zoomed out showing the subject parcel in proximity to some of the other uses. Again, we've got the Na`alehu Park here with the Mamalahoa Highway running generally eastwest through the top of the slide. The private roadway is connecting to the parcel coming down this way. The drainageway here running to the east of the subject parcel. And, then, if we look at the zoomed - in photograph here will also show that the subject parcel includes a community cemetery that has undergone archaeological inventory survey, burial treatment plan, archaeological monitoring plan, and during construction of the church, there will be a monitor on site, as required by those plans, and an archaeological monitoring report after construction and the church is done. So, that's kind of been some of the hold-up with the application that came in last year, is dealing with the SHPD issues, but those have been sufficiently dealt with. At this point, again, we've got the drainageway here to the right, and some of the residences to the east of the subject property. Here is the Applicant's proposed site plan. Again, the main road is Mamalahoa Highway, is up here. Access is going to come through into here. The site plan shows the cemetery and the 30 - foot buffer that is required under the burial treatment plan. The church building will be here surrounded by parking, and it's about 148 feet from the eastern property line, and the water tanks and septic system and everything will be located here toward the bottom of the property. Not shown on this, but in the report and in conversation with the Applicant, there are in the report, it says ten shipping containers, about 20- to 40 -foot shipping containers on the property. When we went out initially a couple years back, there were three there. There have been, since been a few more that were acquired by the church. In talking with the Applicant this morning, there are actually only eight there right now. Some have been moved, and there's a condition of approval in the permit that indicates that prior to submitting plans for Plan Approval, they need to either remove the remaining shipping containers or get them permitted, get a Building Permit through Public Works. So, pardon me here, a few photographs. So, this is a view of Arena Road looking makai. This is the Hana Hou Restaurant again for reference. So, this is a one -lane road that's about 13 to 18 feet of pavement. One of the requirements here is going to be to bring that roadway there's a, they have a 20 -foot easement. He's going to bring that roadway up to Fire Department access road standards which is 20 feet of, not necessarily paving, but all-weather materials to allow for Fire Department apparatus to get down. Here is a view of the Na`alehu Spur Road. Hana Hou Restaurant is here now and looking mauka toward Mamalahoa Highway. And, farther down, here's a view of the entrance to the property at the end of the pavement looking makai, and then a view of the property entrance looking mauka. Just to give you a sense of what that access point looks like. Oops, sorry—and, here is, on the upper left is a photograph of the proposed building location generally in this grassed area with parking surrounding it. The orange fencing you see here is that delineation of the 30 -foot buffer around the cemetery. Here's just a view of that community cemetery. There's been quite a bit of work done by the community to bring the cemetery back. It was overgrown pretty significantly. So, there's been a lot of work done there, and on the EXHIBIT A 3