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

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real Hawaiian neighborhood, and not a gated community and all that stuff. My intent was and still is to build our family home and to live there and not to have it rented out to anybody and that is the intent now and still is. When I bought that place and was looking at places in Puak6 I never even really even inquired as to whether they had a short-term vacation rental license or not because it never was or is part of the long-term plan. But after acquiring the property and with the [indecipherable]to get permits, the shoreline permit, and a building permit and before that to work with an architect and my own plans and what to build for the family. It's been a long process and an expensive one because with a mortgage on the property and so forth it's been very helpful to have the money coming from some short-term vacation rentals. And as John said whether its people renting on short-term or people living there full-time it doesn't really change the impact to the neighborhood. But to answer the question of going forward if we are allowed to build this to improve the property now, I would like to have the option of being able to do a short- term vacation rental should I need it financially in the short-term. In the long-term I don't want to rent it out. I want to live there. So, the answer is I would like to keep that option available but that's not the intent going forward. DEFRANCO: Thank you, does it answer the question? PAISHON-DUARTE: Yeah. DEFRANCO: I just wanted to speak to it. It sounds like you're going to repurpose some of the wood and things, the cedar or can you speak to that a little a bit of what you're repurposing and — SIRLIN: Sure. Well, there's two buildings on the site right now. One it was called, when we bought it, they called it the main house and then there's the cottage. So, the main house is the one that was built in the late 50's early 60's and it's a Pana Boat house. If you're familiar with Pana boat houses they're kind of like, if you remember when you were a kid playing with Lincoln logs. So, it's like a giant Lincoln log home. So, it's prefabbed on the mainland, shipped over on trucks I guess back then and put together like a log home. And so, what I want to do is not demolish that home but remove it and either sale it or pay somebody to take it away and repurpose it somewhere else on the island. And I think for a number of reasons I want to do that not only financially because to demolish it and pay to have it removed would cost money and but more importantly, I don't want to fill up the landfill with this material. It's still a pretty fine building that could be re-erected somewhere else very easily. So, it can be dismantled, each one of the Lincoln logs would have a number on it and then re-assembled somewhere else. So, the main house would be moved. The cottage,which is a small like studio, elevated it's like a bedroom, bathroom, kitchen all in one small room. That got a lot of koa wood, and I want to reuse that koa wood in the new building. So, most of the cottage would be reused and all of the main house would be reused if my plan goes through as I plan. DEFRANCO: Thank you. Are there any other questions? No, yes. PIPAN: If I could just add a little bit more. 14 EXHIBIT A