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pickups, usually what happens, or in my case, I usually stop and let one pickup go by or a vehicle
<br /> go by, and then I drive by. So it's a fairly narrow roadway. In the original SUP from the County,
<br /> they mandated a 20-foot road. Well,that was kind of difficult because of deep cliffs on one side,
<br /> so it isn't quite 20 feet,but in other words the road is not 20 feet as recommended by the County
<br /> of Hawaii. And so that's one thing.
<br /> The other thing, I was wondering about their water use because as I don't know if they have a
<br /> well, I'm not sure,but all I know, at the highway where we have our main meters,they just have a
<br /> five-eighths inch residential meter for potable water, and I'm just wondering, with the increase in
<br /> rooms, where they will[inaudible connection disturbance]water. And so that's one issue that I
<br /> wonder about.
<br /> And the other thing is that other people in written testimony that have been submitted to the
<br /> Planning Department,they, some neighbors are also questioning the fact of their septic system. Is
<br /> it adequate for the increased occupancy? I did see a letter from Sidney Fuke who is a planner for
<br /> the Retreat center, and he said that they have had problems getting in touch with the Department
<br /> of Health. Of course, as we know, the Department of Health has jurisdiction over those matters.
<br /> So that's, that's another question that I would like to bring up is the adequacy of their septic
<br /> system for the increased use.
<br /> So, and many of my neighbors have written in comments via email and letters to the Planning
<br /> Commissioners, to you folks, and so hopefully, those will be read and noted also. I also did read
<br /> the testimony of Toni Withington and Beth Thoma's in the packet that was made available online
<br /> before this meeting. Toni Withington, who is a friend of mine, who brought up the fact that the
<br /> area that she is thinking that would be possible positive reaction to increased rooms would be
<br /> more labor, more employment, and I think that would probably be true, but we know the type of
<br /> jobs that would be available. So I don't think that that necessarily holds a lot of water.
<br /> And, so I would just like to say that we've had ongoing conflicts with the Retreat center for so
<br /> long, it's for 20 years-plus, and I,we all bought this land thinking that, okay, well, we'll do our
<br /> best to be neighborly and have aloha for each other, and as Marcus pointed out, you know,we
<br /> found ourselves being sued by the Retreat center because they wanted more help,more money for
<br /> the, for the development of the road that they were mandated to establish, and we, of course, did
<br /> not have to do a 20-foot road, and we did not have to do an apron from the highway, and so on.
<br /> So, these are just issues that I would like to point out. You know, it's, we do like to try to get
<br /> along with our neighbors,but the increased traffic that this proposal would bring would be a
<br /> detrimental to all of us—there's 17 other landowners that use Maluhia Road—it would be
<br /> detrimental to all of us. Thank you for your time.
<br /> KNOWLES: Thank you. Any other testimony? Any questions for this witness—testifier? Thank
<br /> you, no questions, thanks very much.
<br /> TOUBMAN: Thank you.
<br /> KNOWLES: Is that all the Zoom testifiers?
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