2023-10-05 Windward Exh A (Item #1 Constance Imamura)

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LIN: Please state your name, and the area you reside in and whom you represent. And the question I have to ask you, is have you received the background and recommendation reports from the Planning Department, and do you agree with the recommendation including the proposed conditions? PIPAN: Aloha kakou, John Pipan, Land Planning Hawaii and I live just outside of Honoka`a. To my right is the applicant, Constance Imamura and she lives on the subject property off Kawailani Street in Hilo. We have received and reviewed the proposed conditions for the Change of Zone, and we agree with them. We appreciate the hard work that the Planning Department put into it. We definitely appreciate the great introduction to the project that presentation from Planning Staff, Clinton. So, with that, if you'd allow me, I can just have some brief remarks. This is a pretty simple request. Mrs. Imamura wants to her have home on her own lot and be free of the burden of maintaining the five (5) acres in total. Half an acre with a home is more than enough for anyone to maintain and someone with that agricultural interest can clean up the orchard, revive it, bring it back into productivity or perhaps change it into something else. But we feel like the guidance supports this, right, the General Plan, the State Land Use both support this request. In fact if a larger subdivision or a more dense subdivision were requested the guidance would even support that. Mrs. Imamura is not a developer, she has no desire or capacity to build a larger subdivision so, this is a request that we have and with your favorable consideration we would respectfully request you forward this recommendation on to the County Council. Thanks. We're here to answer any questions you might have. LIN: Thank you, Mr. Pipan. Mrs. Imamura, do you have any comments that you'd like to make? IMAMURA: Actually I'm getting pretty old. I'm eighty-six (86) years old now and it's too much to keep up in back. So, I just want to get rid of it and relax a bit now. LIN: Sure, but you're okay if you do sell the parcel in the back and somebody does come in with it to maintain the orchard or do some sort of agricultural activity. You're okay with like a more commercial farming equipment that goes through that easement to the back property. IMAMURA: No problem. LIN: Okay. Just wanted to make sure that's, you understand this. If that happens right. IMAMURA: Nods her head. LIN: Okay. Commissioners, any questions for the applicant or the applicant's representative? DANIELE: Yes, I just got a quick question. 4 EXHIBIT A