2005-04-01 TLEAIRD - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

building a bed and breakfast where I would be able to volunteer when I feel good. Basically, I put everything I own into buying the property. I put it into a trust. So this is not a short-term thing, this is a long-term thing. And when I married Leland he also agreed that he is also being put into the trust where if something happens to this, to us, when we die, this project continues on. So its going to better the community, not only the community, the local people, but also tourists that come to visit here. Here is the property. When I bought this property, the day before I signed my papers I contacted Kamehamhea Schools because I realized that the property was not buildable, but I knew it had a vision. I also contacted the County inquiring if I could build a B&B, and they were very supportive, and up to this date theyve worked steadily along with me. I also went through, I know Im not going to have the correct name, Department in Honolulu to get this 80-degree mark for the water. DARROW:CommissionofWaterResourceManagement. LEAIRD-OKURA:CommissionofWaterResourceManagement,Ialreadywentthrough them and applied to make sure that I could build, and, basically, they told me that I could not build anything below the 80-degree mark. And I had to ask special permission to put the tea house because one of the legs, theres a lump of ground that is above 80 and then it drops down and then back up. So weve already gotten written permission from them that we could built the structures and also permission to build a lava rock wall around the bulk of this land to help retain it so it would hold the hillside, with an engineers design. The tea house and bath house is here, and this is where the people of the bed and breakfast would be eating. And, also, if local people wanted to get married in our park setting we can conduct a small wedding where they could come and stay at the bed and breakfast as a guest and also have a wedding function. The parking was the biggest problem; and as Jeff was saying in our little lot parking basically rules, and that tells you what you can build. And the maximum parking spots we can get is 8, which means one parking, one has to be ADA because my whole facility is designed for the handicapped. So one parking for ADA, and two for the house, and one per, one out of the ADA is one per guest room. So, basically, Im required to have seven parking stalls, and I was able to come up with eight. If you look here, youre going to see a darker pink area. Thats going to be our residence, our private residence. And then further here, the other lighter pink area is going to be a 6-modular facility, basically five rooms. The fifth room would be for office, laundry and storage for linens. Right here is the new property line. Theres going to be a 10-foot landscaping buffer and then a 12-foot road for Bishop to use for their farming. Now if you notice here, below this 80-degree mark, which is basically the gulch, that is where Bishop Estates existing easement is. So they would have no access to their lot at all. Its like an 85-foot drop. And so because Bishop was willing to come on board, the County was willing to come on board, this is a possible dual situation. We got your letter, it resulted in two things that were problem areas. One was the RM-1 to RM- 10. We sat down in a private meeting between the Planning and Engineering Departments 6