2020-10-15 Leeward Exh A (Public Testimony re SPP 20-000219)

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CARR SMITH: Okay. YATES: Thank you. CARR SMITH: Thank you very much. Any other Commissioners? Alright, thank you Mr. Morrison you can drop off the call now, appreciate it. Okay, Michael Huntley. Michael Huntley. HUNTLEY: I am here, there I am. CARR SMITH: There you go. Hello, thank you very much. M. HUNTLEY: Hi, thank you. CARR SMITH: You may proceed. M. HUNTLEY: My name is Michael Huntley. I am one of the owners of Lot 9 of the same community that the Applicant is requesting a Special Permit and adamantly oppose to the Special Permit. I did submit my written arguments for review. The guest ranch hotel and yes it does fit the definition of a hotel. Wedding and parry venue have been operating as you know for over twelve (12) years without permits. As previously stated over a half a million in fines for unpermitted structures and activities. The community is quiet and peaceful agricultural and residential not parrying hosting up to six hundred (600) guests generating non-agricultural noise day and night. The permit does not fit North Kohala and is universally not wanted by most of the neighbors. In addition, that Special Permit not fitting the community it can't be granted cause in over 12 years she has done almost nothing to obtain proper permits for her numerous buildings, pools, septic system, fire, noise traffic, water to accommodate 350 guests or more. As previously noted, the water is not there. The Water Department already notified her she is in violation as she is only allocated 400 gallons a day for a single-family home not the proposed 5,600 gallons per day. That's not acceptable, she mentions Kohala Ditch and catchment water. Kohala Ditch is non- existent it's non-potable and the same with catchment that area only receives ten (10) inches of rainfall a year. For that little building she's catching rainfall off of it amounts to almost nothing. As far as digging a well again you got get permits for it, there is going to be salinity issues or could be reverse osmosis issues. One of the neighbors quite a few years ago dug a well and it cost almost half a million dollars. Imagine in today's terms that would be $700,000 to a $1 million. I don't see her doing it and if she was going to do it, she would have done it in the last 12 years. So, the precedence has not been set. Music. She's played the maximum volume as noted by her DJ in emails way past midnight till one o'clock. On numerous occasions with pick decibels readings of a hundred (100) or higher measured half a mile away. Maximum permissible for ag noise is 70 at the source not at half a mile away. So, that's a totally disregard of her neighbors. 8 EXHIBIT A