2024-04-01 PL-SPP-2024-000062 Mamolani King Opposition Testimony

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Tirtha Luitel, the applicant, along with Suresh Neupane, was granted an Agricultural-Based Commercial Operation (ABCO) in August 2020, for a restaurant composed of two mobile food service trailers structurally connected with a covered platform deck. However, on Page 4 of the Special Permit application, lines 16-17 state "construction of the restaurant will likely take at least two years to complete". It seems to me strange that the linking of two mobile food trailers would take so long... unless another type of commercial restaurant is being planned by a future special permit application. Also bothersome here is that the ABC© description by Mr. Luitel anticipated 20 cars per day for 15 parking spaces, and the special permit application as written by Land Planning Hawaii LLC, anticipates only 49 cars all day for 49 parking stalls. (Note here that Land Planning Hawaii LLC is the company which the Director of the Planning Department, Zendo Kern, owns or works for when he is in private practice.) To continue: Most visitors to Akaka Falls stay for less than an hour, which could then total as many as 500 cars in a day in a 49 stall parking lot covering 16,500 square feet. (A little less if the two food trailers occupy eight stalls.) Luitel and Neupane's ABCO plan had two porta-potties for customers of 15 parking spaces. How many more would be needed for as many as one to two thousand parking clients of41-49 parking stalls, not to mention the additional restaurant clients arriving from the state parking lot or parking along the road?. Diamond Parking attendants of the state parking lot have been told that the new commercial lot on the Luitel and Neupane property will be for buses and vans which is not mentioned at all in the special permit application. The original. ABCO permit mentions 10 tables for the two food service trailers. How many more would be needed in the new commercial parking lot, along with water tanks and storage trailers? The supporting clutter of the original ABCO is already horribly visually unsightly, and will only get worse with a larger parking lot. On Page 13, the applicant claims that "the proposed action will retain the essential character of the land..." and I am wondering how this can be done by covering the land with 16,500 square feet of concrete and a mass of porta-potties, food storage trailers, water tanks, buses and vans and 500 cars per day. On Page 13, it is also claimed that the proposed parking lot would support the economy through the purchase of construction materials and labor, estimated at $500,000.... a valuable resource to the community." I would like to point out that