2021-05-06 Windward Exh B Island Naturals Properties SMA 21-079

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proceed to develop the property for commercial industrial activities but no residential uses. So, maybe like I understand like you know one of the testifiers mentioned about like maybe participating in a hearing and there were representation that you could use the property for residential, no you cannot. It has to be used according to the Department of Health limited to commercial and industrial activity. The reason why Mr. Ruderman it's not like he's doing this out of the kindness of his heart for the general community which is really great but over and beyond that the current operation right now at the Hilo Shopping Center is a little bit too small. It's not an efficient situation especially since they went into the deli operations so that's why they decided to kind of do the remediation on the property on this site here and then do the whole project. Now, obviously the site is too big for just Island Naturals but although this is going to be their flagship store so that's why they came up with kind of concept of having additional commercial and office related use. There is this kind of symbiotic relationship between Island Naturals and other kind of commercial retail activities and they like their operation where it's currently located at the Hilo Shopping Center and that's kind of like essentially what they want to duplicate having that kind of other symbiotic land uses as well. Now, we have had like it is in your background report kind of pointed out all of the cooperating agencies whether it's Police, Fire, Water they didn't raise any objections. I was not alerted to any objection from the surrounding property owners, I send out notices in that notices, I made it explicit, I provided explicit information in terms of if there were any concerns you could contact me, you could contact the Planning Department not only by phone but also via email. But I did not receive anything until 2 days ago from the staff and I guess like for this morning on the comments. Now with respect to their comments specifically about it was directed purely at the drive- through. I kind of want to point out the drive-through situation over here is like, it's not like the other drive-through where you have the queuing or the stacking up of the vehicles on the public roadway and you can look right here in downtown Hilo. You can see it at the Starbucks along Kilauea Avenue, you can see the McDonald's on Kino`ole Street, you see it at Burger King at Hualalai you do have the queuing effect over there and the reason why is that at the backup is directly into the streets. Now on the other hand you look at other fast foods where you have this kind of drive-through you look at the Puainako Town Center. You have the McDonald's there, you have the Taco Bell but they are all within the commercial area so you don't have the queuing or the traffic impact spilling over to the street. You look at the KTA Puainako area you have the Jack in The Box and where is that it is also within the shopping complex. You know you go to Waimea, you see the McDonald's the McDonald's is within it. So, there is this kind of differences between a standalone type of drive-through like a Starbucks on Kilauea versus a McDonald's within the Puainako Town Center or like the KTA in Waimea. So, it's an internalized kind of situation. I do understand the concern raised by some of the community members about the noise and the associated with the call box or whatever. I was involved in this one situation when you know Panda Express. We all know Panda Express downtown Hilo. Well, it's right next to the Honpa Hongwanji Hilo Betsuin. So, the members of the Hongwanji had raised questions to the Planning Department and in turn the members had also contacted the architect to see how they 12 EXHIBIT B