2021-03-18 Leeward Exh B (USE 21-085)

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VITOUSEK: Please state your name and area of residence. AREJIAN: Arthur Arejian. I live on Alii Drive in Kailua-Kona. PIPAN: John Pipan, Land Planning Hawaii. I live outside of Honoka`a, Hamakua, Big Island. And, Bryan, Bryan Lindsey, is a project architect—(to Mr. Lindsey) I'm not sure if you want to introduce yourself here, you are still on mute. VITOUSEK: That would be great. Bryan, go ahead. LINDSEY: Yeah, Bryan Lindsey, architect, I live in Captain Cook. VITOUSEK: Okay, Mr. Arejian, have you received the background recommendations, background and recommendation report from the Planning Department? AREJIAN: Yes. VITOUSEK: Do you agree with the planning director's recommendation, including the proposed conditions? AREJIAN: Yes. VITOUSEK: Okay,please go ahead with your presentation. PIPAN: John Pipan, Land Planning Hawaii, I'll start off just for some background. It's been a rough year and a half almost now; the pandemic has had impacts on all aspects of daily life and business here in Hawaii. And the construction industry and, has been a little bit of a bright point, and looks like tourism is starting to get restarted. And throughout this downturn, the applicant, Mr. Arejian, has been pumping money and investing into this property, trying to improve its use, trying to contribute to Hawai`i's economy through the increase in property taxes, GE and TAT taxes, maintenance and management and all of the construction that's going into it. So in evaluating these Use Permits, these are uses that are established within zoning code that should be allowed, given that there is no substantial adverse impacts and it's consistent with the county General Plan and zoning. We've seen in the recommendation that that looks to be the case. There are a couple of wrinkles that we pointed out, or have been pointed out, in terms of the wastewater; we can discuss that further. And it looks like we've addressed already the DOH comment. So far, we intend to provide only non-potentially-hazardous food items, which are exempt from DOH regulation and food establishment permitting; so these are things like pastries, commercial cereals,juice, coffee and tea, very basic, non-hazardous foods. That's the one thing. I'm glad we've got that settled. The cesspool is definitely a trickier question. I did a little bit more research, and this approximately a half-mile stretch of Alii Drive has over 50 lots, most of those with dwellings, and a vast majority of those are on cesspool. The county wastewater system terminates about 1,200 feet north of Mr. Arejian's property, and the private Kahalu`u system terminates about 1,200 feet to the south. As far as I know, there is no plans for extending 9 EXHIBIT B