2012-06-07 Windward Transcript Hegarty

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KERN: And we’ll start with Marti Morishige. MORISHIGE: Hello, good morning. I’m a resident of Orchidland. KERN: Give me your name and area in which you live and -. MORISHIGE: Oh, okay. Marti Morishige, resident of Orchidland, and also one of the Board of Directors for Orchidland Community Association. At the last couple of meetings, well, I think Mr. Hegarty came I believe in February or March; and at that time our Board of Directors didn't feel that they had been properly notified about this development being proposed. So that's one item, that we were not really given public notice about it in time to testify. So then our discussion at the th meetings were immediately of our concern of our private roads. And 37, being a private road paid by the members, the residents, is going be impacted significantly. And it’s full of potholes. We just don't have money to collect, to maintain our roads, especially the side roads. We’ve tried to, you know, pave our main roads which are Orchildand Drive, Ilima, Alii and Pohaku Drive. So, anyway, we are really concerned about that. We’re concerned about children's safety, of the residents there. And then I know our Association would not agree with the Planning Department's proposal of having exits and th entrances on 37 Avenue. So I was surprised to hear that as one of the remedies of traffic control, because that’s just going to encourage more use of our private roads. And I was, been made aware of, you know, well, I knew this all along -. But there is a park across the street and the Longhouse for Ainaloa, I am really concerned about children’s safety, and the lack of sidewalks. I mean, I'm serious about the -. The speeding on that road is just horrific. And you put a convenience store and children walking there, there is deaths waiting to happen. And also I'm concerned that the Planning Department has denied this request and now you're considering it. I mean, cause it doesn't go along with the General Plan or the Community Development Plan, and it’s just not consistent with families and the traffic problem. And we need the village pod idea considered as the highest priority, and this goes against that. So that's what I want to share. KERN: Thank you. Any questions for the testifier? Could you clarify what you mean by village pod? MURASHIGE: Well, -. KERN: Use the microphone, please. MURASHIGE: Oh, I’ve been to a few of the community planning of, of the Puna Community Development meetings, not very many. But, you know, there’s so many; and, anyway -. Okay, Orchidland Drive, where the General Store and the Blane’s Drive Inn is, is considered a village pod. And then there is the, above that, I guess the Planning Commission gave approval for that other –. KERN: So with the village pod you're referring to the commercial area of development? MURASHIGE: Right, right. KERN: And that's –? 12 EXHIBIT C