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PINK: Thank you. I’ll pick up the mike; I assume you need that in record. Yes, we are interested
<br />in running the B&B up here in Hōlualoa. We are fairly longtime residents of the Big Island – came
<br />here in 1997, lived up in North Kohala and ran a business in Waimea, left the island for a couple of
<br />years and came back – and this is our final home. We are retired, and so we are looking to
<br />supplement our income, and don’t want to get too large of an operation, something that’s
<br />manageable for two people in a retired capacity. And so we are looking to try and open an B&B
<br />with one of the bedrooms initially, and that would make our choices as we go along and see how it
<br />progresses and if its activity picks up and it’s of interest. The neighborhood is a beautiful
<br />neighborhood with coffee and mac nut orchards and that sort of thing, so it blends itself to the
<br />tourist trade for the island; so we thought we’d bring a little aloha by providing a more local
<br />residence for this type of activity. And then, should the business pick up a little bit and we at that
<br />point are interested in expanding, then the hope would be we could add another room. Now, we
<br />considered that in the ‘ohana. And the ‘ohana is, although listed as a two-bedroom, it really is a
<br />one-bedroom, master bedroom, with a small sort of studio bedroom, or more or less a den or an
<br />office; so it would really just be the single bedroom in that ‘ohana and the entire building would be
<br />used for that purpose, but -. So I’m looking to, hope, you can, you know, find approval to it, and
<br />we can start. Thank you.
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<br />GIFFIN: Thank you. Commissioners, any questions of the applicant? Hearing none, so, Mr. Pink,
<br />if I understand you correctly, the one unit, or a bedroom, that you are considering to start with
<br />would be the ‘ohana?
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<br />PINK: No, no, the home is constructed in the main structure, as Maija pointed out with the
<br />photograph of the hale and garage below it. And that hale is connected by a breezeway – you know,
<br />how the County allows sort of separate structures so long as they are connected – and that facility is
<br />set up that way so it has its own private entrance, its own private garage, and so that would be used
<br />for the B&B purposes. So the guest would actually get a parking garage, as well as the master suite
<br />above it. The master suite above it has a separate bath-shower-toilet area, master bedroom large
<br />size with the, its own separate lanai.
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<br />GIFFIN: Okay. I think the answer to my question was yes, but that’s okay. Hearing none, no other
<br />questions, as Maija said, there is a member of the public, actually there are two of them, who has
<br />signed up to testify on this agenda item this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Miller, will you please come
<br />forward. I think we have two chairs there, so both of you may come forward. Leslie and Loraine
<br />Miller?
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<br />MRS. MILLER: Good morning, Commissioners.
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<br />GIFFIN: Good morning. Please be seated.
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<br />MRS. MILLER: I’m Loraine and this is my husband, Les.
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<br />GIFFIN: I kind of figured that. Would you two please raise your hands, your right hand. Do you
<br />swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Leeward Hawai‘i County Planning
<br />Commission?
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<br />MR. & MRS. MILLER: Yes.
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<br />GIFFIN: Great. Will you please state your name individually. Thank you.
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