|
DARROW:These areas here are zoned RS-15. The Kona Heights Subdivision is
<br />actually zoned Ag-5. In looking at the sizes of these lots, they range from 7,500 square feet on
<br />up to over 10,000, so they all -, these are also non-conforming smaller type of residential lots
<br />that are located directly adjacent to this subject request.
<br />SPRINGER:Thank you, Jeff. Commissioners, any questions or comments? Seeing
<br />none, Greg, at this time, I'd like to ask you to step back and I'd like to invite the first six of
<br />12 testifiers forward. In order of signing up, Andrea Tischler, Joel Gimpel, Laurel Gregory,
<br />David Kish, Lawrence Goff, and Alex Thropp. We'll begin at the right side of the table, and
<br />each of you in your turn, will you please state your name, your resident address, and proceed,
<br />speaking directly into the microphone, please.
<br />TISCHLER:Yes, good morning and aloha.
<br />SPRINGER:Good morning.
<br />TISCHLER:My name is Andrea Tischler, and I live up on Lopeka Place,
<br />`
<br />75-5784 Lopeka Place. I'm a newcomer to Hawaii, but I've grown to love this Island very
<br />much in the short time that I've been here. I'm not very familiar with the way these
<br />proceedings go, but so that's why I'm here to find out.
<br />I bought my house on a cul-de-sac street, Lopeka Place, which butts up against to the proposed
<br />building site. My house is actually right on the border of the project. I'd like to show you
<br />some photographs if you don't mind. This is -.
<br />SPRINGER:Can you speak into the microphone, please. You can bring it with you.
<br />TISCHLER:So my house is right up against where this proposed building site is,
<br />right at the end of the cul-de-sac. I have some great concerns about this project and the size of
<br />it and how it will affect my house and apparently the other residents, I don't know, in the area.
<br />And my first concern is the quality of life issues that such a large project presents. This is
<br />going to be site preparation for years and road construction and, of course, when the actual
<br />houses are built, this is going to take a long, long time and it's going to really be a lot of
<br />equipment. I hear a lot of construction all around me going on, and when I drive down the
<br />highway I just can't believe the amount of construction that's going on here now, and so I'm
<br />`
<br />just really kind of shocked coming to Hawaii thinking, oh, this is such a beautiful, tropical
<br />place, and quiet and sleepy Kailua and everything, and gosh, it's all construction everywhere
<br />you go.
<br />My second concern is for the increase of traffic, and I guess that was expressed before, and
<br />how this is going to impact Nani Kailua, which is the main access road. I see a bus, school
<br />buses drive up Nani Kailua dropping off the kids every day, and I am concerned that there are
<br />safety issues around much more traffic going up Nani Kailua to get to this site.
<br />9
<br />
<br />
|