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I may be forced to build another factory up above, so now I have noise at two ends of the
<br />property. So, I don’t see how you can have a noise making operation like my operation and then
<br />expect to have peace and tranquility next door. I mean, if you look at the map, my orchard is
<br />right there, the house is less than 70 feet from the property line. So, I’m there all the time one
<br />way or another. And people are not going to spend good money to stay at a bed and breakfast,
<br />and expect the kind of noise and activity that I conduct on a regular basis.
<br />SIRACUSA: Thank you. Would you please give me a yes or no, just a yes or no, do
<br />you want to continue with your contested case?
<br />FARWELL: Yes.
<br />SIRACUSA: Thank you.
<br />ALAMEDA: Commissioner Watanabe?
<br />WATANABE: I have, I don’t know if it’s germane anymore, but I have a question to
<br />Brad. Right now the three complaints you cited were not from bed and breakfasts, they were
<br />from just people living in the Ag zoning. Am I not correct?
<br />FARWELL: When the property was first sold, Dr. Bairos built the house about ten
<br />years ago, and the marriage crashed and burned, and it was sold initially to a realtor. While it
<br />was in this transition period before Mike and Greg bought it, they were basically running like a
<br />rooming house. And it was -, all three instances came from that house. The way the property is
<br />laid out, you don’t really appreciate the grade, from Napoopoo Road to the back of the property
<br />is a 250-foot elevation change. And the property is only 800 feet deep. Michael’s driveway is
<br />really steep. But the point I’m making is that sound travels up, so I don’t see how -. When I’m
<br />cracking, we use this new cracker from Naalehu; it sounds like a Gatling gun. And that is at the
<br />bottom at the moment, but I may be forced, if our business continues to grow, to put it up at the
<br />top. So, what gives?
<br />ALAMEDA: Mr. McCall?
<br />MCCALL: Yeah, thank you. I know I’m not supposed to testify, but I -. As a fellow
<br />farmer in Ka`u, I do know what you are going through, that residents will complain about, you
<br />know, starting a tractor at six in the morning, spraying roundup on your property, etc. etc. There
<br />is a law in the books, the Right to Farm Act, which gives us some powers to protect ourselves
<br />from harassment, but it’s a legal thing; we have to hire lawyers, we have to do this. And doesn’t
<br />stop people from calling the police once a week and saying, you know, this guy is still starting
<br />his tractor too early. I do feel that there are, I mean, while we are supposed to support the idea of
<br />bed and breakfast in the agricultural areas, I do feel that there are areas where bed and breakfasts
<br />are not compatible with agriculture, and I think this may well be one of those places. Some
<br />agricultural operations are not compatible with, you know, the quiet, pristine life style that
<br />people think about. I mean, you do have noisy operations, you have, you know, when people
<br />separate calves, you’ll have, you know, baby cows crying for, you know, 48 hours. There are a
<br />lot of, you know, things that just are incompatible. I, you know, I would like to hear from the
<br />applicant to see what he has to say, so -.
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