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goes all the way to Waiki‘i; so I was getting phone calls from people who live in Waiki‘i, you
<br />know, saying like, “Where is this,” you know, so, well, I had to kind of do all the description. So
<br />anyway, it must have been about five miles away that they got notices.
<br />BOWMAN: Thank you. Because I’ve come across this before. And I know it’s a problem in the
<br />country where people just build whatever, I mean, not whatever but, you know, they own the
<br />property; it’s not like they are building on a neighbor’s property. So thank you for the clarification,
<br />Director. And I’m sorry you had to go through all that.
<br />GIFFIN: No, that’s okay. That’s the process. Any other questions? If not, I’d like to have Ms.
<br />Song go ahead and speak to the Commission regarding any other inputs you might have regarding
<br />your contested case and the Hirayamas and in particular your objection to Page 20 of the
<br />background report obviously – it has to do with impacts on surrounding properties.
<br />SONG: Thank you, Madam Chairman and Members of the Commission. As you know, I just
<br />earlier withdrew our request for contested case. When we first filed the application, my client –my
<br />clients are farmers, and Mrs. Cheryl Hirayama, one of the Hirayama family, is with me today, and
<br />they are farmers and they are, they are farmers, I mean they work everyday and Cheryl is not on the
<br />farm today because she felt it was important enough to come here –their concern was primarily
<br />about the events arena, and part of the reason was, I guess,there had been a rock concert at one
<br />point and their irrigation pipe was damaged. So their concern was if there were events happening at
<br />this facility and people did not park on site, people got drunk, people didn’t use proper bathroom
<br />facilities – they have to follow the special Food Safety Act requirements to be certified to sell their
<br />produce and they don’t want anybody getting sick from their produce – but if people started
<br />relieving themselves in their field, that could create a problem. If people damage their farm, the
<br />produce or their equipment, that would create a problem. So they were very concerned about that.
<br />Elimination -. And they also realize that with rodeos people can do that, too, but with the rodeos
<br />people bring their trailers, they park on the site, and there is, and that has been available. So with
<br />the elimination of the special events facility, that took care of one of the issues.
<br />The other issue was, again, traffic. And part of the reason is all of the farms, the Hirayamas,like
<br />their trucks with their produce constantly; and if there was a substantial increase in traffic so close
<br /> would make turning onto the highway very difficult
<br />and these farmers have worked very hard to make that land, which was initially very rocky and
<br />unusable, to usable farm land. What Parker Ranch was willing to do because of the driveway, the
<br />road that exists now, is to create another driveway. And we had a talk about, we had discussions
<br />about when that would be constructed; because they also represented to us, to my clients, that this is
<br />not going to be in full production at least for a year if not longer, construction of the road within two
<br />years was a reasonable compromise. The Departments of Public Works and Fire and the Police
<br />Department wanted the main
<br />which would make more safety, safety features.
<br />So, and the final concern was, is this area going to be converted from agriculture, which it is, which
<br />the community always wanted, into an urban area, and encroach on the farms? Now, if the
<br />buildings stay the same way and are not expanded, that doesn’t become an unreasonable burden.
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