2022-04-21 Leeward Exh B (Public Testimony re Items 2&3 Hawaii One1 Investors REZ&SMA)

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ANDREWS: Chair, there's one more testifier for agenda Item 2 and also agenda Item 3. VITOUSEK: Okay. We will proceed with that, and I'll just remind all the testifiers please try to summarize your testimony within three minutes and if you've submitted written testimony, please don't simply reread it, we have received the written testimony. After the testimony Commissioners may have questions for you, and then, once it's completed you can log off the Zoom and continue watching the meeting on YouTube. Okay, our next in-person testifier is that Ms. Elizabeth Dunn? Okay, thank you. Aloha, good morning. DUNN: Good morning. VITOUSEK: Would you please raise your right hand. Thank you. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on the matter before the Leeward Planning Commission? DUNN: Yes, I do. VITOUSEK: Mahalo, please state your name and the town you live in and proceed with your testimony. DUNN: Good morning, Chair and members of the Planning Commission, my name is Elizabeth Dunn, I live in Kailua-Kona and I'm talking about the project I know it's 2 applications but it's the project that is coming off of Naniloa and has another access point on Alii. I reviewed the just the staff report on Tuesday and prepared comments and questions and sort of global points on Tuesday, and I sent that to the LPC. The email to get this presumably to the Planning Commission so I'm just going to start from the standpoint that you have that. I'm not going to go through it, because there are just questions on the project that I had some things that weren't as clear to me as I would have as I was reading through it. Some issues for the Planning Commission to consider if you think you're going to be approving this project or recommending approval. What I really want to talk about is the sort of the global issues that I see in this area, this part of my neighborhood where I live. This is 1 of 3 development projects that's in the area. It seems to kind of, once you use the Kahului-Keauhou Parkway is some level of transportation in the area. I have a lot of concerns about that in terms of what the status of that project is. I don't really understand where it is, if it's still a live project, if it's kind of in the wings. I went to the Public Works department a number of months ago and asked her staff reports and was told on that project that there aren't any. I have construction drawings for what that project is, but I really want to understand where that project is in the pipeline. Is it years off, decades off, I just feel I need to understand that, because that's a big roadway that really will change the character of where I live. As it relates to this particular project, I bristle with the fact that something that originally got approved in 2009 is now being reconsidered again for an extension. It seems to me that there should be a life term to planning approvals and not this sort of permanent perpetual approval for 2 EXHIBIT B