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GIFFIN: Commissioner Bowman? Nothing? <br />BOWMAN: No. Thank you. Not yet. <br />GIFFIN: You’re welcome. Any other questions of the two testifier <br />very much. Ivan, I’m sure -. Oh, Mike. Again, Old Home Week, rig <br />want to testify? Of course, you may. Mike, will you please raise <br />LUCE: Sure. <br />GIFFIN: Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter <br />County Planning Commission? <br />LUCE: I do. <br />GIFFIN: Thank you. Your name, please. <br />LUCE: My name is Mike Luce, L-U-C-E. I live up the highway from <br />Moani Pkake Place. Chairman Giffin reminded me of Old Home Week. I didn <br />today intending to testify, but I looked at this application. Th <br />happened to be the Planning Commission Chairman when that went t <br />This application, ladies and gentlemen, was very controversial. <br />selection. The Resort Association was very concerned. Residents <br />use permit, as I’m sure you’ve learned and staff has told you, i <br />nobody wants – a prison, a quarry, a landfill, a sewer treatment <br />They are the orphaned child kind of society. But I would ask you <br />but has staff given you the environmental study that was done as <br />Because, to the best of my knowledge, a quarry operation was nev <br />sensitive permit. Also, in that environmental study, trucking ru <br />was never contemplated. This permit barely passed, as I recall, <br />Resort Association because of all the mitigating conditions and <br />have something somewhere closer than Hilo or closer than the Kaipala. <br />So there is a rich history to this permit. <br />I’m just going to roll through a couple of considerations that I <br />haven’t given the environmental study for this permit, that you <br />don’t see them weighing in on this yet. I mentioned the environm <br />quarry operations or rubbish from East Hawai‘i. There are existi <br />You can see them – there is one up Waikoloa Road and there is an <br />And this application is not just for selling material in C2 in t <br />stockpiled, and I believe it’s crushed, Commissioner Bowman, to <br />the specs for cover material are much less stringent than they a <br />The one that really got me, as I thumbed through this applicatio <br />the applicant is self-exempting themselves from the environmenta <br />privy to overnight use of the materials: I just looked at it. I <br />excuse me, Chair – that’s County Office of Environmental Managem <br />GIFFIN: Department of Environmental Management. <br /> <br />