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WHITTEMORE: Yeah, this is more now toward the Director, you know, I’m just curious, with
<br />something like this, and I want clarification, I guess, just so I understand, with the Commission
<br />when we approve something like this, there is no condition in here with respect to the growth of
<br />how big the event could become. I haven’t read anything in there as far as crowd size. It seems to
<br />me that that would be a prudent kind of thing, so we could re-inspect our decisions, too, but -.
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<br />LEITHEAD TODD: We are proposing a condition that basically says that it has to be conducted in
<br />a manner that’s substantially representative of plans and details as contained in the special permit
<br />application. The special permit application indicates that they are going to limit attendance to 4,000
<br />concertgoers a day, including staff and volunteers and 100 individuals to provide onsite services.
<br />So it is limited by the application. They cannot -.
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<br />WHITTEMORE: Okay, so that is our control.
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<br />LEITHEAD TODD: They cannot grow it beyond that.
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<br />GIFFIN: Any other questions? Daryn.
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<br />ARAI: And maybe I can clarify that. Mr. Bostock also clarified that his intentions were to limit the
<br />actual attendees to 3,500 with support staff making up close to 4,000 in total.
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<br />GIFFIN: Any other comments, Commissioners? Okay. Thank you very much for coming forth
<br />and testifying. Thank you, Mr. McAniff. Will the applicant please, and his representative, come
<br />forward again. Thank you. And I know you were present to hear the concerns and comments of the
<br />public. Bill, perhaps, before going into the discussion of the different conditions, it might be
<br />prudent to go ahead and address some of those concerns that were raised by the public.
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<br />BOSTOCK: Not sure what order to go, but a couple of things quite quickly. I have had several
<br />conversations with James Takamine and Jamae Kawauchi who are Lot 116 owners, and that was an
<br />early conversation; if they didn’t want it happen, it wasn’t going to happen, because they have a
<br />neighboring lot. They are quite content with my offer to provide one security guard that would be
<br />in their premises just ensuring nobody would fence-jump in to look around their yard. And other
<br />than that, they are very much looking forward to the event and would attend with their two young
<br />kids.
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<br />I am, to answer or address some of the fire issues, of course, it’s a concern, I’ll bet; I am planning to
<br />irrigate the polo field at my expense – it’s a separate meter, so I’m able to do that and pay for the
<br />water – probably for three weeks prior and one week or two weeks after. And so the polo field
<br />itself is green, lovely to look at and is certainly not a fire load. We are mowing, as was described,
<br />we are mowing all of the parking areas sufficiently. So there is no fire load in the parking areas or
<br />in adjacent areas. We can’t be responsible for all of the verge and sidelines of Saddle Road, of
<br />course, but we’ll certainly take good care to both irrigate and keep low, the grass, in the concert area
<br />immediately and surrounding.
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<br />I think the program is really important. I think Daniel brought up a really good point, you know, it
<br />became a much more Jawaiian crowd. And it was visible in the program. You did see what they
<br />had programmed; (inaudible), Sean Na’auao, you know, they are not bad people, but those, B.E.T.,
<br />Three Plus, they attract a younger crowd, and they attract young people who like to come out and
<br />smoke paka lōlō and drink, and they -. I’m programming Amy Hanaiali‘i, Kohala. I’m
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