2011-07-21 Leeward Exh B - LDS Church

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Kona to the Stake center near the temple where I think you are all familiar where the temple is. And so they are on the roads constantly to attend their meetings on Sunday and also for the youth meetings or other meetings that take place in the evenings during the week. It would be advantageous to them when the building is completed in Kealakekua that they could more readily attend their meetings and be off the roads and take away some of the traffic congestion that currently exists. And of course for those who live there and just south of there in the Captain Cook area, who are using the building currently, an older building, they would have an updated building there and it will be a great benefit for everyone involved. So once again, I thank you for this opportunity and grateful to be part of this process. Aloha. MELROSE: Good morning. My name is Ken Melrose. And along with my wife, Maile, we reside at 81-950 Onouli Road, being Tax Map Key 8-1-4:36, in Kealakekua, which is immediately across the Onouli Road from the subject application. Maile has lived in the house there since it was built by her parents in 1954. The LDS Church, Rocky and Jon Pharis and their consultant, Roy with PBR Hawai‘i, have been working with us to mitigate what we perceive as impacts of their project in three areas of our concern: One was increased traffic access to the subject property by locating it at the Easement A location, noise during operations, and landscaping. I have submitted you written testimony and I’m not going to go back through it. The Church and the Department have done an excellent job at amending the conditions to address our concern, and we greatly appreciate the participation in that dialogue by both. And they have been genuine and very forthright. The Church has been really up-front with us in that. And perhaps, in looking at this, the last one we’ve asked them for is not in the condition so you know, is that our driveway is right here, and right across the street from us is a group of Jacaranda trees that happen now to be in full bloom, and it appears, as you look at the site plan, that it’s right in between where they would do their cut and fill. And they have an opportunity to and they’ve agreed to, if they can, to leave those trees. It would be a good buffer for both of us and it would be a wonderful neighborly thing to do. And perhaps, it feels a bit like Chinese water torture, but I would ask that if – in the site plan, Jon, as you look at this, that a dumpster is located at this upper corner – if there is an opportunity, that perhaps take it off the street and use it in the back corner where it is less visible to the community; that would be greatly appreciated as well. But based upon the amended conditions that you have and the cooperation of the Church, we have no objections to the application and we welcome them to our neighborhood. BEAUDET: Commissioners, any questions or comments for -? NELSON: Yeah, Ken, I just want you to explain. There is a one-foot division wall at the end of the slope that takes the water from the roadway in front of it down to the main road. Am I hearing that right? MELROSE: Well -. NELSON: I’m trying to get a picture of that, that flow. MELROSE: Yeah, and I appreciate that. What happens in this site is that right near the U here on Onouli, the road changes from a fairly flat gradient that they created close to the intersection of 7 EXHIBIT B