2021-07-01 Windward Exh C Kirpal Meditation & Ecological Center SPP 20-220

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Another point to be made is although the Center is doing its best to agriculturally cultivate the land, the land itself is not really well suited for large-scale intensive agriculture. The soil within the permit area is classified as "D" or "poor" for agricultural productivity and if you look at the lot size and shape it's a little over 10 acres and it does have this elongated triangular shape to it. It's really not well suited for large-scale agriculture. With that said, the Center is doing its best to use the property for agriculture. And again, allowing the operation of the Center as proposed will not be detrimental in any way to agriculture or the characteristics of this type of district because the Center itself is a model for a small-scale self-sufficient agriculture and it's coupled with a real peaceful meditation retreat use. The changed conditions even reinforce this more where we have very set quiet hours with decibel restrictions. We're going to make every effort not to stick out in this district. You know it is noted that the testimony brought out and the report mentions it too as the applicant did, we were never hiding the fact that the applicant unfortunately did not have all permits that were required for operations previously. With that said, if you look through the majority of written public testimony it is actually supportive of this Center and it does say that even though they didn't have the permits in hand while they were operating previously, they were a very good neighbor and an asset to the community. So, I did hear the public testimony this morning and it did raise some concerns, but I feel that these concerns maybe don't fully apprehend the nature of the Special Permit where it does allow for uses outside of agricultural uses in our districts. As long as we are not really changing the land and we are doing our best now to comply with the law. We are not aware that the Special Permit was needed for these operations and part of this Special Permit process is going to involve getting building permits or getting Change of Use Permits to allow for the use of existing buildings, going through the proper Plan Approval process with the Planning Department. These are just further steps that we're going go through to get everything up to Code and make sure that we're operating legitimately. So, at this point we're doing our best to follow the process and we're going to go through the appropriate departments and get the permits that we need to comply, and we ask that the Commission grant the Special Permit to allow for this continued operation allow us to continue this process. So, I thank you all for your time and do welcome any questions on the appropriate juncture. Thank you. REPLOGLE: Thank you Mr. Kim. Mr. Sussman,please. SUSSMAN: Just a few things. First allow me to thank you all for considering my application, it means a lot to me and to literally we had thousands of people go through KMEC. I had no idea when I first started it, it was my residence, my second home. And then slowly I started out as an Air B & B, it was a plowed over papaya fields. You couldn't even get into the property it was all rubble and slowly over the years you know we plowed the property, and then I planted a Mio Forest Mr. Kim didn't mentioned that there is over a 100 Mio trees and there is a 40-foot greenhouse organic greenhouse that we have that wasn't mentioned as well. So, slowly over the years you know we wanted a, I wanted to give something back to as gratitude to humanity 7 EXHIBIT C