2025-10-22 Appellants Exhibit 19_Letter to PC

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TMK (3)2-1-018-013, within 210 feet of my property boundary, without requiring a completed and signed SMA use permit assessment application under the requirements of Planning Commission Rules 9-4(u) and 9-10 Assessments. The guests staying at this location often arrive in large groupsl'1 that drive in separate cars that causes significant adverse effects on the surrounding community—blocking vehicles turning onto Oeoe Street from Kalaianaole Street creating safety issues, tsunami evacuation congestion, diminished fire protection and access to other emergency services, and unsafe conditions for bicyclists and pedestrians. Adding a total of 444-SF of cover lanai and an enclosed stairway to make it easier to run up and down, will expand the capacity to hold gatherings and parties on premises already illegally used as a four-bedroom short-term vacation rental. The additional development will draw even more on-street parking and increase the number of vehicles stacked in the driveway and backing out onto Oeoe St., which may have a substantial adverse environmental or ecological effect, taking into account potential cumulative and secondary effects under HRS §205A-22 and the definition of"Special management area use permit." A SMA use permit is required not only for the project exempted under No. PL-SAA-2025-000280, but for the 2025 NUC renewal application because the "change in the density or intensity of use of land" created by the nonconforming use certification of the addition of two bedrooms does not have a SMA permit. Under the standard of review outlined in Planning Commission Rules of Practice and Procedure, Rule 9-10 Assessment, part (h), Criteria of Significant Adverse Effect, a 6 APPELLANT EXHIBIT 19, pg. 6 of 41