2023-03-16 Leeward Exh A (Items 1 Frank Sirlin PL-SMA-2022-000024)

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DARROW: Correct. It can change ownership. DEFRANCO: Thank you. DARROW: If I may, Mr. Pipan also touched upon the new proposed bill that's going to be coming forward shortly and the main purpose of that bill is to look at regulating hosted rentals. Where somebody lives in the residence and rents out a portion of their dwelling and they live on site. There's also discussion of creating what are called vacation nodes in areas that he had mentioned where there's a high number of short-term vacation rentals whether hosted or unhosted. Unfortunately, at this time we know how many unhosted we have. We're not sure how many hosted we have in particular areas. So, that matter may or may not be part of the proposed bill going forward. It may come back at another time. So just to be aware of that. DEFRANCO: Thank you. Are there any other questions for the applicant or for Mr. Pipan? No. Yes. PAISHON-DUARTE: Sorry, excuse me. DEFRANCO: Commissioner Paishon-Duarte. PAISHON-DUARTE: Sorry, I applaud the applicant in developing the new residential site in a manner that is compliant with the SMA rules and also upgrading to new and improved septic systems that's wonderful. It's going to be very helpful and beneficial to the environment of course. However, if I'm hearing from you as the applicant that it's not a make-or-break deal if and not the application or I'm sorry I don't have the exact technical terms. The ability to rent out a short-term vacation rental to have the ability for that use is not a make or break. I would encourage the applicant to come back for that particular use at when the rules change and again applaud you for taking the extra steps to make sure that you are conforming to the new SMA rules. Mahalo. PIPAN: May I answer? DEFRANCO: Yes, Mr. Pipan. PIPAN: I appreciate your comments Commissioner Paishon-Duarte and I do think it comes back to what we are here to evaluate in the form of the SMA Use Permit. So, if we're talking about short-term rental use which is not all that unlike residential use in terms of impact to the SMA. I think it's maybe a little borderline to restrict that use that would be otherwise appropriate for this property without having firm grounds within those SMA criteria to restrict that use on this property. So, we can put this question to Mr. Sirlin to see what his feelings are on the short-term vacation rental use. Frank if you could, you're muted. Thanks. SIRLIN: Sure, hello everyone. I apologize for being late to this meeting but, anyway, I'm here and I've been listening for the last while. So, I can speak to the short-term vacation rental aspect too. When I started looking at Puako and had these criteria of stand-alone, 13 EXHIBIT A