2025-05-01 Liquor Commission Minutes Hilo

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Greenwell: Have you people had a chance to sit down and spend some time with the neighbors and talk to them about it? Singletary: We've made the attempt but we hadn't really had any feedback from the neighbors other than the letters that you received. Hitsman: And actually we were surprised a little bit by a couple of the ones that we had received because we did actually have conversations with them, and we were under the assumption that they were in support, but we understand that they had a few concerns after probably contemplating for a while. Singletary: Most of the concerns that were brought up were I believe, due to like the idea of loud music at night, anything late night and stuff. But our restaurant license clearly states that we can't be open after 9:00 p.m., and so I don't think late night really applies for us. Also, we don't plan on having any kind of like you know rock-n-roll shows or anything like that there, it'll probably be just like small local artists, you know single guitar players or something like that, like most of the restaurants in town have. Hitsman: But yes, and even some of them that submitted protests were actually part of our son's birthday party. So yes, we have spent time with the community that's there so, and we were surprised by a couple of them. A few of them we kind of knew because of the close proximity and they are concerned, and we sent one of the ones that we couldn't get a hold of, we did send a letter to them stating that we would like to work with them. We share a driveway in the back with them, and so I think the very first letter that you'll see stated there, they were concerned about the driveway that they share in the back. We do have "No parking" signs that we'll be posting there. We talked to them if they would like to, we could go you know half -half on maybe a fence to put back there if they would prefer you know, us to not have any access there. We also offered to them, we own an excavation company outside of Wyatt's Place, and so we said you know, if you want us to regravel that driveway because we understand. And we never really heard anything back from them, but we did reach out in that sense because we do understand, I mean that driveway is used and we understand that it takes time to maintain a driveway. Greenwell: So, your biggest concern is probably perceived noise. Singletary: Which as of right now, I mean we have our music license and we haven't had any noise complaints, everything stays within the environment of the restaurant. haven't noticed anything being loud, even outside like in the parking lot, so. Hitsman: And we do know that the liquor license doesn't supersede our restaurant license, so we are only allowed to do music on our restaurant license on Fridays and Saturdays, and we are only allowed to do it until 9:00 p.m. So, you know, the liquor license, being able to serve until 2:00 a.m. does not supersede our restaurant license. We also have to maintain the restaurant license hours, and that was the special permitting that we had gotten back in February. MINUTES - LIQUOR COMMISSION MEETING - THURSDAY, MAY 11 2025 - HILO PAGE 4 OF 63