2021-11-04 Windward Exh B (Public Testimony re SPP 12-138)

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know where that came from. If you're saying that is not a box and we're not checking that we're looking at other criteria then respectfully I understand. KEKAL I can't speak to what the specific Commissioner meant if you know who— TURNER: It was three, it was several. KEKAL Okay, well, if you know which ones did it then that's great. TURNER: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt. KEKAL No, it's okay. I can't tell you what they meant by saying it. All I can say is that everybody's testimonials is taken into consideration when the Commission makes a decision, and you would have to ask the specific Commissioner what they meant when they stated that statement. TURNER: Right and that's why I'm here. It was mentioned at least three times. I don't have the transcripts in front of me. I remember Mr. Au used that phrasing, Mr. Lin used that phrasing and I believe the Chairman used that phrasing. I believe others when they voted for it acknowledged that phrasing. Whether there was a meeting that I missed, where all the community came out and said we're in favor of this I respectfully would understand, but the community came out and literally hired lawyers put signs in their yards. I left the meeting thinking what else could we have done to get that box checked or unchecked and I feel like either procedurally the box wasn't on the sheet, which it sounds like it should have been or could have been. I'm just questioning whether the Commission genuinely saw that as a checkbox or just put it much lower on the list. It's frustrating, I'm sorry, it's my backyard literally and I feel like we were encouraged to come to a meeting like this and say hey this is going on in our backyard. And at the same time pivoting and saying, maybe that isn't that important. Sorry I'll stop talking. REPLOGLE: No, if you're finished that's fine, but if you have something to say. TURNER: I think my last, I hope that as a member of this Commission, when you're imagining these projects and you're imagining somebody without the power to vote and that you're imagining these projects in your own backyards. That each of you, when you voted yes, functionally are saying yes, I would vote for that project in my backyard against my tree line. And if you're not respectfully I don't know that you're really considering the neighborhood's position on this. I just like to close by saying, as an educator I just wish they'd find a location where the community embrace the project, because this is not that at all I'm sorry respectfully. REPLOGLE: I would say Mr. Turner from my standpoint and in regard to your check boxes. I never looked at anything as checked boxes, but I looked at what the Planning Director passed forward to us with recommendations and all the things that the school or the applicant whether it's a school or whatever, that the applicant presented to the Planning Director they met all those standards, and you could I guess call them checked boxes. But you are right, the Planning Director does not have the benefit at that time of public testimony, and we do. I hear what 3 EXHIBIT B