2011-03-17 Leeward Exh B - Verosko

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GIFFIN: This is great. Thank you very much. Since there are no further questions at the moment of staff, I’d like to call the applicant and/or representatives to please come forward. Good morning. Will you please raise your right hands? Thank you. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Leeward Hawai‘i County Planning Commission? MIKKELSON: I do. VEROSKO: I do. GIFFIN: Thank you. Will you please state your name and your address, please? VEROSKO: Kenneth Verosko, 84-4770 Mamalahoa Highway, Captain Cook, Hawai‘i 96704. MIKKELSON: I’m Lori Mikkelson, GIFFIN: Thank you very much. Maybe you would like to go ahead and just give us an overview as to why you want to go ahead and have this amendment to your existing Special Permit. And then, you probably heard the question that Commissioner Bowman had, and please address that as well. VEROSKO: As of now we have a very productive fruit farm, and we thought this would be a great idea to get our mangos when they are in season, rather than throwing them away, that we could freeze everything and make smoothies, which would be a great use of all of our fruits and vegetables and things. And that was all great idea, and we are moving in that direction. And also, we would like to be able to sell our neighboring farms’, their fruit; they have excess and it’s hard for them to market it, so it’s very convenient and helpful for them to market it through our establishment. The hours of operation, Sundays we’ve been closed, and a lot of people, they would like to come out from Kona, they come up for a weekend drive or whatever, and Sundays sometimes is their only day to do that, so we would like to open on Sundays as well. And we would like to sell local soaps and handmade crafts, Hawaiian things. We have a lot of local community customers and we get a lot of tourists as well, people on their way to the volcano, and the seating area would be a great place for them to get off the road for a minute, have a smoothie, sit down out of the sun and just enjoy their day. And the building used to be a nursery, so it was an already permitted building. But instead of a nursery, now we thought it would be a great idea to have a littleseating area there. As far as the one-way signs, we have, we applied for a permit and it’s been approved by the Highway Department that we would have a one-way traffic pattern. We widened the, as you can see, it’s new concrete there, and we made it to their specifications. We have a sign one-way-in on the north side, we have a sign one-way-out on the south side, and right next to the sign we have a one-way-do-not-enter sign. GIFFIN: Oh, you do then. VEROSKO: Yes. GIFFIN: Commissioner Bowman, did you want to proceed or ask any more follow-up questions? BOWMAN: Well, I have other questions, but when he is through. 5 EXHIBIT B