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

Home

actually to my spiritual teacher and to my path and so I wanted to open it up to the public for their well-being. So, I decided to have a Meditation Center in honor of my spiritual teacher, and we did have an approved gazebo at that time which we turned into where we, where we sit for prayer. So, it's a very quiet place, I mean, we don't have any parties or there is no drumming. It's going to get better in the future when we get, my problem was I'm not a good manager. I had a lot of difficulty getting a management team over the years and now for the past three years we have a good team and it's getting better and we're getting systems in place and programs in place for meditation and ecological classes and so forth. Over the next year or so these things once we get the permit, we can go more into that aspect of being of service to our community. That's all I really have say, I think the letters this all came back these 13 or 14 recommendation letters from our neighbors can back came to me overnight just about when I, when I learned that there was an opposition from my neighbor. And I learned that those her opposition would be forthcoming, I contacted a few of my neighbors and one told the other and before you know it I had over 13 thank you' s from the neighbors and community at-large. If you happen to look at any of our reviews from Air BNB or any of the reviews, you'll see that most people are very very grateful and they all say the same thing, it's a very peaceful place. And also we're all organic and we're gluten free and we're vegetarians. So, we don't kill pigs, I'm never on my property we've never killed a pig. In the beginning we had a Hawaiian hunter come by once but, one experience of that was enough. So, now we try to catch them and take them off the property. Thank you. It's been a learning "—" REPLOGLE: Thank you Mr. Sussman. Are there questions? Yes, Mr. Au? AU: Thank you Mr. Chair um' thank you Mr. Sussman, thank you Mr. Kim. I do have a question for the applicant. Have any efforts been made since the last meeting to address concerns, and another follow up question with that would be has there been any efforts made since the last meeting that address the current revised conditions? For example, has any buildings been knocked down yet, or are you waiting for this hearing? I just want to know that. KIM: Thank you Commissioner Au, so the efforts made to address the concerns raised by the intervenors you know we did go through a process of mediation to talk about things and try to resolve things and that's why we have changed conditions before you today. Now as far as the applicant going forward with matters, we started some design and planning but reluctant to do too much until we go through the Special Permit process to understand whether or not it's going to be fruitful to invest capital and moving forward with the project. SUSSMAN: I have one addition to that Commissioner Au. We did, we were one foot into the neighbor's property approximately a foot. One corner of one building was in the property in physically and I employed a contractor and a designer, we remodeled the building entirely and we put a foundation under the one corner that we believe would definitely pass inspection if they were to allow a variance for that and then we would move it around to the other corners. For that it cost about three thousand dollars to do that remodeling of that one encroachment building so that has been done since our last meeting. The other buildings are on my property where and 8 EXHIBIT C