2012-05-03 Windward Transcript John Hegarty

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BLIECZ: My name is Steve Bilecz. I live on Uilani Street in Ainaloa. I know Mr. Hegarty as a friend, and also I do the landscape for him on a piece of property. I am for this, not the reason because I work for Mr. Hegarty, cause I will actually lose property and lose some monies in my own pocket. I would like on a personal level instead of driving to Pahoa and Woodland Center, I don’t know how many of you are familiar with that, I’d rather be able to pickup small items somewhere convenient to me. I know there are issues. There’s trash, noise and traffic. The traffic is what it is because when you’re driving to Pahoa it’s still the same amount of traffic. The trash I know Mr. Hegarty is really particular about when I do the property to make sure I pick up the trash. And also the noise, there is always going to be noise with any type of business like this. And I would assume that there would be some kind of a buffer between that and the properties behind him. Pretty much all I really have to say about is that I’m just for it, the convenience. And thank you for listening. KERN: Thank you. Are there any questions for the testifier? Seeing none, thank you. Tony Galimba, name and area you represent, or if you represent the association, that’s fine, too. GALIMBA: Thank you very much, Commissioners and Director. My name is Tony Galimba and I am the president for Ainaloa Community Association. I represent 3500 lot owners in our subdivision. And with regards to a convenience center, you know, there are quite a bit of monies involved as far as the Puna Development Community Association planning. And now we are revisiting against the common conclusions of that plan. No. 1 this road, Ainaloa Boulevard, is not, it is not a standard road. It will not handle the traffic. We have already done environmental impact studies of which we passed on to the County indicating the problem, problematic risk of the traffic when the County took over the road. On top of it too we have mail boxes there. We have a playground across the street. The playground is an alcohol free zone. We’re concerned about alcohol being sold at a convenience mart. So it’s not just convenient for the elderly of which this is purportedly the claim or the people that have limited resources. But if alcohol is available, there’s going to be consumption in our park which is an alcohol free zone, and we set that up as a safe place for our children. That will be ignored if this is passed. We also have a volunteer fire department of which I was a part of establishing for our association. With regards to the environmental impact study and also an engineer’s study on the traffic pressures on this Boulevard, and consistently right across the street and sharing that road with the proposed project -. We have ingress and egress to that fire station on a lateral road to avoid the possible risk of collision with our emergency vehicles. Also, we have a board member that owns a property directly across from the proposed site, and he has had vehicles drive onto his property in the past. Now alcohol, additional traffic, ingress and egress, looking at the photograph in the exhibit, the driveway is directly across from his house again. There’s nothing here that mitigates that risk. Certified kitchens, we have to have water, and it cannot be catchment water to be run off of. So I would just ask -. KERN: Thank you. GALIMBA: Thank you very much. KERN: Thank you. Any questions for the testifier? I have a quick question regarding to the blue outlined area where you, where Ainaloa has its proposed village center. Was that actually agreed to by the Ainaloa Association, or was it drawn by the planner that originally did the Puna CDP? GALIMBA: Actually where, from what it was described that was the Puna CDC (sic). Actually Ainaloa set that property aside; and we have another property as well for community growth that we set aside when we established our association. That is set up for future community growth. It was actually set aside at the end of 5 EXHIBIT A