2021-04-15 Leeward Exh B (Public Testimony re SPP 21-222)

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MITCHELL: It's not coming over mine. My name is Wendy Mitchell from Holualoa. Myself along with my husband, Thomas Buckner are owners of a twenty (20) acre Condominium Property Regime (CPR) lot adjacent to the Hickey's. We've lived here since two-thousand five (2005) and our parcel is one (1) of the other 3, 20 acres CPR lots shared with the Hickeys. All properties up here accessing Waiono Ranch Road are Ag zoned and our four(4) CPR lots are among the smaller size parcels, sizes varying from 20 acres up to a hundred(100) acres with the largest being Palani Ranch at the top which reportedly owns over a thousand (1,000) acres. I am telling you this because I want you to be able to visualize what is at stake here in case you aren't familiar with these properties. The Hickey's property is located approximately one point five (1.5) miles up the access road from Mamalahoa Highway and people driving to the Hickey's property must past by at least nine (9) different owner properties before getting there. I just can't emphasize enough how inadequate and substandard this one lane farm road is and there's been much written testimony submitted about this. Occasionally stray farm animals and wild pigs around the road or alongside it, repairs and improvements on the road when done are individual property owner driven because we have no Road Maintenance Agreement up there. Even with the various road improvements the Hickey's agreed to implement is just not enough to ensure safe travel for the anticipated event guests, related auxiliary workers and those who live work on "- - -"property up here. Anybody who's driven this road know this plain and simple and on-lined petitions submitted as written testimony had gone out to the property owners along this shared access road. Twenty- two (22)thirty-two (32) excuse me of them signed the petition and commented on it an opposition to the granting of the Special Use Permit(SUP). Clearly concern over the road is the great unifier amongst property owners. It is a definite liability for us property owners and quite possibly the County as well. One confirmed property owner Allison Naito wrote a letter of support for the Hickey's and Kyle and Ka'iulani Thornton who also wrote a letter of support for the Hickey's state in their letters that they are neighbors of the Hickey's. However, it is not clear whether they are actually property owners as well. Approval of the SUP strongly opposed by the overwhelming majority of property owners up here and doesn't that matter, shouldn't that be a strong consideration of the Commission. Imagine how you'd feel if something similar to this which is strongly opposed by nearly every nearby property owner up were to have this forced upon them. And feeling that your— VITOUSEK: Pause, 3 minutes. MITCHELL: — opposition to it is primarily due to the safe travel of everyone using the only accessible road possible. VITOUSEK: Ms. Mitchell — MTCHELL: I was involved in an accident on the road in late February twenty-twenty (2020), when an unlicensed, uninsured driver on a moped hit my vehicle — 2 EXHIBIT B