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

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that material from the deconstructed pavilion in the appropriate location or build a whole new one. The guest [sic] would like to host private events for up to 100 non-guests—so that's non-overnight guests—on Friday or Saturday; only one special event per weekend is proposed, so if there is an event on Friday, there will not be one on Saturday, or vice versa. The guest ranch will grow, and continue to grow, and sell food, along with utilizing the certified kitchen for catering for guests, catering for special events, and use during large event. The guest ranch will offer horseback riding and other similar ranch activities. The guest ranch will offer equine therapy, cooking, art, and yoga classes. The guest ranch will host two community events per year with up to 350 people. The guest ranch will utilize portable toilets until more permanent restroom facilities can be constructed for guests and special events. The director has said that the use of portable toilets for the large events will be able to be continued in perpetuity, as that is a very common practice for big events that happen only a couple times a year. I'd like to just read off real quickly the definition of guest ranch. This is from Hawaii County Code, Section 21, or 25-1-5, and it says, "`Guest ranch' means an establishment with its surrounding land which offers recreational facilities for activities such as riding, swimming and hiking, and living accommodations." Here is a map of the county zoning in the area. The outlined property in red is the subject property. As you can see, it's well within the A-20a, so Agricultural 20-acre, zoned district. Mauka of the property, you see A-600a, which is 600-acre Agricultural lots, and then across the street is the A-10a subdivision, which is 10-acre lots. There is a farm, agricultural farm small lot, and some other smaller zoning parcels that are located quite a distance away from the property, but the surrounding area is A-20a or across the street really A-l0a for that subdivision. As you can see, practically the entire area barring the coastal zone, which is Conservation district, is in the Agricultural district, so State Land Use Ag for this parcel and all surrounding parcels. LUPAG shows this as Important Agricultural Land, and take note that the entire area, all nine lots, are within the Important Ag Land designation of the LUPAG. Here is an aerial photograph of the property, showing some of the, kind of make out some of the guest ranch buildings vailing in some of the other agricultural uses. Just for scale reference, the structure, the residential structure that's kind of at the bottom of the picture in the center is approximately 1,000 feet from the project area. Here is a pretty comprehensive map of the historical structures. So there are a number of historic structures that are on the register; so they've been registered as historic structures, to which the applicant has maintained and upgraded those structures aligned with Department of Interior rules and regulations regarding structures on the national and state register. I would like to also note that the guest ranch, so the use of the guest ranch as a facility for overnight accommodations, has been in practice longer than any person alive during this meeting; it's over 100 years this property has been used as a guest ranch. So any person coming in would have known that the 4 EXHIBIT D