2020-10-15 Leeward Exh D (SPP 20-000219)

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Hawaii Revised Statutes Chapter 6E-42, and particularly with the exemption under 6E-42.2, which exempts any historic register sites from being in the exclusion category dealing with single-family homes. So, basically, in order for this site to have been altered to the point that it is today in terms of restoring it and all the work that's gone into it, adding swimming pools, all this other stuff, there should be a long history of correspondence between the applicant and the Historic Preservation Division, indicating that these additions to the historic site are not taking away from the qualities of integrity that make the site significant to begin with. Is there any record of any consultation with the Historic Preservation Division in regard to the alterations that have occurred on this site over the past decades? CARR SMITH: Go ahead, Christie. CASH: Like I said, before the property was placed on the historic register, I did have Theresa — I forgot her last name but she visited the property, she was employed by SHPD. I also had Steven Roth (ph), I believe, he was, he visited the property, toured all the cottages, all the homes. And I also worked with a gentleman named Thomas Quinlan who was, presented himself as a historical preservationist contractor; he dealt with SHPD with me quite a bit. He helped me prepare my application and inviting all of the SHPD representatives to the site. I didn't do improvements to the property after it was submitted to the Register, so other than adding the pavilion, which we tried to, we did submit plans to SHPD for approval, but they were rejected because Planning said that I had to get a Special Permit before I could do that. I don't—does that answer your question? ROY: Commissioner Vitousek, a 6E analysis was submitted to SHPD, and SHPD chose to not respond to that request. So, we can only do consultation, you know, if it's a two-say street, SHPD refuses to respond, and really not much we can do. VITOUSEK: Completely understand, but here we are with the opportunity to review the project; in and of ourselves we could take into account the effect of the project on a historic resource. So given the time that we have now, I believe that if a thorough review of the proposed project I should back up—in order to do a thorough review of the effects of this proposed project on this historic site, we need to have an accurate inventory of the historic sites that are there within the Special Permit area. In my opinion that would be an architectural inventory survey of the 14.9-acre project area. CARR SMITH: Christie? CASH: We did that. We submitted all, we submitted as-built plans, and all of those buildings were recorded when we put the property on historic register; every single structure on the property was outlined, and plans and photographs were submitted. So we, architectural survey has been done, and our architect, Mr. Winnie, completed as-built plans for all of them - - - my understanding - - - VITOUSEK: So, I mean, that's just not information that we got as part of our packet, so we only can base our assumptions on information that we have. That's why I was asking the questions of 22 EXHIBIT D