2022-09-01 Windward Exh A (Item 1 Renegade Towers PL-USE-2022-000004)

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That's our conclusion on the slide. The Director recommends an approval with conditions and excuse me, and with the additional requirement that it be a stealth monopole constructed to look like. That's all. Thank you. Back to you Chair Lin. LIN: Thank you Clinton. At this time, I will ask the applicant or their representative to please come forward or is that Mr. Novak? APPLICANT/REPRESENTATIVE: Came up to the table. LIN: Hi. Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Windward Planning Commission? APPLICANT/REPRESENTATIVE: I do. LIN: Please speak directly into your microphone and state your name and the area you live in and whom you represent. MARTIN: My name is Danette Martin, I live in Kailua-Kona, and I represent Renegade Towers, the applicant. LIN: Have you received the background and recommendation reports from the Planning Department? MARTIN: I have. LIN: Do you agree with the recommendations including the proposed conditions? MARTIN: I do. LIN: Okay,please go ahead. MARTIN: Great. Well, I wanted to expand more on this previous location that I think the carriers would have preferred it to. I represented Verizon Wireless during that application and when they were starting to build that, and they were trying to get their utilities in place they gave an application to HELCO. And they were given a price tag of about a million dollars to bring power to that location. They couldn't, um' they couldn't do that. So, Renegade Towers offered well maybe we could build it for you. They looked into it and they even after trying to spread the cost between the carriers, it still didn't work. So, Renegade Towers asked me if I could try to find a site that would work that was closer to utilities. So, I looked around and the closest that I could get that would still give some coverage to Saddle Road and the Daniel K. Inouye Highway was this location here. We sited it as far mauka as we could. The parcel is sloped. So, the elevation where the tower is sitting is the elevation is 1,959 and then it slopes down to 1,801. So, I met with the community. We had a nice luncheon over at Kuhio Grille and I explained to them that we are still not getting the coverage that we want up mauka. We're trying to get up the highway as much as possible. 5 EXHIBIT A