2021-06-16 Leeward Exh B (Public Testimony re SMA 21-000078)

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City, LA, it does not belong on Alii Drive, it does not belong in Kona, there is not a place anywhere on our island for the proposed building that they are asking to move forward with. They do have the right to build, but this building needs to go back to the drawing board from A to Z. I vehemently am against any proposed building at this time. Are you able to hear me clearly? Sorry, Mike, I thought you were speaking. Um' along with that, um' we are going to lose the views from Alii Drive with this proposal, we are going to see more traffic on Alii Drive and as we all know the traffic already on Alii Drive is sometimes at an absolute crawl. We are losing the only parking spaces that we have on Alii Drive for our shoreline access road. I believe that Caroline said that there are 5 parking spots. They are proposing to remove 3 of them which leaves 2 parking spots for our beach line access. Our beach line access is a public right in Kona and to allow 2 families at a time to use it is absolutely unacceptable on every level. I am extremely concerned about the excavation of the lava and the noise that is going to emit from just that excavation. The, when they built whatever they build there being 10 feet away from their process I do request and I think it's a very reasonable request to have sound barriers, dust barriers constructed so that we have the noise and dust and everything else mitigated along the way. I have an elderly mother in her 80's that lives with me for parts of the year and she is not going to be able to come out here with the noise and the proposed building that comes from this. As far as our views, they are going to be completely obstructed, we will have nothing but a concrete mirrored building reflecting back at this where we now have a beautiful view of the mountains and lushed garden views. This is a monstrosity that absolutely needs to be denied. I am begging the Council, the Leeward Community Commissioners to please deny this, send them back to the drawing board and perhaps build a reasonable little tiki type building that will go within our landscape that we need here in Kona. We do not need bigger buildings, we need more of our cultural landscape be shown, not what is being proposed at this time. Thank you. VITOUSEK: Thank you very much, are there any questions from Commissioners? Seeing none, um' next up we have David Oasay? OASAY: Aloha. Thank you to the Planning Commission to allow us to voice our concerns. VITOUSEK: Can you state your name and the town you live in for the record. OASAY: Hi, I'm David Hall Oasay. I live at the Ala Ka La condos which is adjacent in fact right, within 10 feet of the proposed permit and construction of the new building. I do live in Kailua-Kona, again, thank you for, to Commission for hearing us out. A lot of the folks that have spoken today have brought up a lot of concerns and I definitely echo 10 EXHIBIT B