2022-09-01 Windward Exh C (Item 3 Kunimoto PL-SPP-2022-000015)

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I'm certain that the greater community of Hilo deserves a tennis school. But this neighborhood is not the right place. If the Planning Director who wrote a favorable recommendation and you, members of the Windward Planning Commission grant this Special Use Permit it will set a bad precedent for allowing illegal enterprises or schools that have been around for say 12 years to get started and come in for approval after the fact. Why have zoning laws? I ask each of you as members of the Windward Planning Commission for your empathy and understanding and put yourselves in our shoes and deny the permit. Thank you for your time and kind attention and I will answer any questions that you have. LIN: Thank you Dr. Lee Loy. Do any Commissioner have any questions? Oh, go ahead Vice Chair Galimba. GALIMBA: I just wanted to ask if you could or explain your posters since you brought them. LEE LOY: Yep. I told to try and hold them up and talk but I found it kind of cumbersome. I have 2 photographs. On the far right is the large coverall building that covers Mr. Kunimoto's tennis facility. He said that it's fairly visible from the road but as you can see from Mele Manu Street it's huge. Um' this photograph shows speed bumps that were place there because the traffic became very heavy, and people were speeding up and down going to and from their lessons. In fact, there was an incident in which I was driving home one day, one evening in the afternoon. A car behind me tailed me and I put on my blinkers to slow down and turn into my driveway and this car overtook me on the right shoulder between my car and the telephone pole and sped up and went into Mr. Kunimoto's residence. I think it was a player,perhaps, late for his lessons and I turned around in my driveway and I drove up to Mr. Kunimura [Kunimoto] and explained what happened. I told him, I was not happy, and someone could have been hurt because residents walk up and down the streets, they walk their dogs, they push their strollers and that's why I took these photos. This is just 2 of several photographs that I have submitted in my written testimony to you. Thank you for your question. LIN: Thank you Dr. Lee Loy. I'll move on to Mr. Bishop here. BISHOP: Good morning members. LIN: Could you please state your name and where you live. BISHOP: My name is Michael Bishop; my physical address is 1485 Mele Manu Street and Chair Lin and members of the Board. Thank you for the opportunity. I'm here fundamentally understanding that Mr. Kunimoto pulled his application so, my written comments are on file. I am here to support the objection to any further application in the process of acquiring an after- the-fact granting of a commercial business in an residential neighborhood. The Planning Commission report or assessment had pointed out a number of flaws with code violations or causes for concerns. Such as increased traffic, such as unregulated sewage disposal, cesspools, ADA incompliances, parking restrictions, other violations that were noted on the Planning 3 EXHIBIT C