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Department because they, I don’t know what had happened, but they thought that this
<br />was a residential property, had given us the approval. And then when they realized, hey,
<br />no, this is a village commercial, that’s when they had imposed the stricter Fire Code, you
<br />know, onto the family, onto this aina. So I just want to clarify that’s why there’s all this
<br />confusion. In other words, I didn’t come with this plan last minute, you know, to try to
<br />influence or, you know, to try to confuse the public, no. This plan was brought forth with
<br />the single family. Because it was the Fire Department, I mean, excuse me, it was the
<br />Water Department that didn’t do their homework and it caused all of this confusion,
<br />knowing that we were up, you know, for a hearing this Friday. So this is the situation
<br />I’m at. And because of this, you know, I really want to just leave it up to the
<br />Commission how they decide to proceed.
<br />But I just would like to remind the community that this property is zoned village
<br />commercial. The bottom line is that if this property was zoned residential, we could have
<br />gone forward with this project. So I don’t know why, you know, why there’s all this
<br />confusion on what we propose to do, you know, with the aina.
<br />Now a three-unit apartment, you know, and I can understand what Ms. Cazimero was
<br />saying. And at the time when we had proposed that project there was, you know, there
<br />was, really rental units were not readily available, you know, in the North Kohala area.
<br />But the bottom line is things have changed quite dramatically in terms of the community
<br />as to where the community is at now. So this is why the family felt that in keeping, you
<br />know, with the area, to do a very low density kind of a breakfast, bed and breakfast kind
<br />of operation would enhance the opportunities there in that community.
<br />And then also I had received inquiries from the persons that are operating the flume rides
<br />there in Kohala and also the ATV rides.You know, they had approached me to ask for
<br />consideration for this because they felt that, you know, it would provide the visitor an
<br />opportunity to maybe layover and then they could take advantage of the eco-tourism that
<br />we’re trying to develop, you know, in the North Kohala area. So this is really the
<br />rationale behind the project. You know, it’s nothing underhanded or -. You know, we’re
<br />trying to, I’m trying to propose this new concept. So, you know, it really, I mean, with
<br />the family, well, we really had to scramble to try to be prepared, ‘cause I wanted to be
<br />prepared, you know, for this hearing at this moment, and to try to make the amends after
<br />we had gotten, after we had received the information from the Water Department. Thank
<br />you.
<br />GALDONES:Thank you, Ms. Solomon. Commissioner Graham?
<br />GRAHAM:Yeah, I just wanted to be sure -. Ms. Solomon, I’m not trying to,
<br />you know, question how we came to this point in time. But just that going forward from
<br />here, do we go forward with the three separate dwellings or, which I think was all we
<br />really can’t do today if we’re going grant intervenor status and move forward to a
<br />contested case hearing. It would have to take place regarding what’s on our agenda,
<br />which is the three separate buildings, and we can do that.And I just wanted to put it
<br />forward to you, is that in line with what seems reasonable to you, or would you rather we
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