06-01-2022 Applicant Response to Director's Recommendation (PL-SPP-2022-012 )

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Mr. Dean Au, Chairperson and Members of the Windward Planning Commission Page 5 of 5 June 1, 2022 and traffic safety were never made known to the Applicant until recently as a course of review of this Special Permit application. b. For many years, the Applicant has allowed the County to travel through its existing access driveway through its processing facilities when moving its big machinery between the County baseyard on Lanikaula Street to the landfill and transfer station. c. The Applicant has also allowed the County, for many years, to utilize its existing driveway through its processing facilities as a bypass to get their transfer trucks & trailers around the long traffic line to and from the transfer station during busy holiday weekends like Christmas and New Year's. The Applicant's operations are closed during these holiday weekends, but make a special effort to open and close their security gates to accommodate County operations and avoid traffic congestion along Ho`olaulima Road, going as far as providing County personnel the gate key for the holiday weekends so that the Applicant's driveway through its processing facilities could be utilized by the County when the Applicant's personnel was unavailable to open/close the gates for them. The Applicant shares this information with the Commission to demonstrate that it has been, and will continue to be a very responsible neighbor and business owner that places safety and minimizing of impacts generated by its operations as its paramount obligation to our community. In the end, the Applicant acknowledges that the County will have the final say in types of vehicles that will be permitted to use Ho`olaulima Road. The Applicant simply requests that Condition 5 be amended to give the County this sole discretion, and not the State Land Use Commission. Should you have any questions or require additional information to assist with this request, please feel free to contact me. Sincerely, 4 DARYN ARAI Land Use Planning Consultant copy via email: Shellbylynn Yamada, President, Yamada and Sons, Inc.