2006-08-25 TPLANNING DIR. - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

would put them in the EPA requirement for septic. It’s what, 100 gallons a day usage I think is one of the criteria. YUEN:The home would have to follow all other regulations; and if it, so it would have to follow whatever wastewater regulations applied. ALAMEDA:All right. SIRACUSA:But we don’t know at this point whether there’s a septic on the property or it’s a cesspool? YUEN:Well, we’re not dealing with any particular home or application here. All I can say is that if this passes, the home will still have to follow any other applicable regulations. And, so, if -. SIRACUSA:At this point it’s all theoretical. YUEN:Yeah, well, when it becomes actual, then, as I say, the homes has to follow the other regulations, including limits on wastewater disposal. So if it doesn’t pass that, it can’t be used, just as same though as any other occupancy of the home. SIRACUSA:Thank you for explaining that. ALAMEDA:Thank you, Commissioner Siracusa. Any other questions for Gary before I let him go? Seeing none, thank you for testifying today. Mr. Landis, Dr. Landis, did you get a chance to state your name and address for the record? LANDIS:My name is Dan Landis. My address is 17-123 Palula Place in the Keaau Ag Lots. I’m a research psychologist, social psychologist, whatever you want to call it. I retired about four years ago but I try to keep active by my research. One thing I’d like to, first of all I’d like to thank the Commission for allowing us to come over and for being as patient as you are. You say we’re patient, you’re patient, too, having stuck around this long. We in the Ag Lots have a problem and we’d like your help in solving that problem. The problem is that we see a slippery slope developing here. That is, number one, I would confidently say to you that there’s no evidence of the magic number eight of being a sufficient or necessary number to treat these kids. It could be eight, it could be seven, it could be five, it could be six, it could be, the numbers seem to have just been pulled out of the air; and I would say probably the Department of Health doesn’t have any evidence that that’s an optimum number. That may be for their funding, so extra funding stream; it may have something to do with that. But I would guarantee that it doesn’t have anything to do with the therapeutic effectiveness of what they’re doing. So I would suggest that you’d be very, very careful about approving any number above five. I personally like the idea of a variance. Director Yuen says that’s not possible but I wonder if we ought to maybe take a look at that and investigate it a little bit further. EXHIBIT D 12