2012-06-07 Windward Transcript Hegarty

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MURASHIGE: Right. KERN: Okay, very good. Thank you. Any other questions for the testifier? Seeing none, thank you. Anthony Galimba, name and area in which you live and then you may begin. GALIMBA: My name is Anthony Galimba, and I live at 16-2122 Ginger Lane. I’d like to start with just thanking everybody for a consideration on this particular issue. I know there are pluses and minuses. We still have major concerns. The County has not, since they took possession of our road, -- which they actually condemned our road and took it away from us -- they have not taken care of the traffic issues here and the road conditions. That is in default. You disagreed with taking over the road by not providing the service. Now if the County had done this, we would not be having these issues now. This road will not handle the traffic. Puna Community Development Plan, the County spent $500,000 developing this plan, of which they do not want this development going on. We also have a community development, or what has been called a village center. We agree with that. We don’t have plans on the books right now but it has been set aside. We just decided not to develop there by virtue of the fact that the roads and the traffic have not been addressed by the County. Hello, County, take care of first steps first, because we’re only kicking the can down the road. th Now I want to thank Mr. Au for looking and raising the question about ingress and egress on 37 because there are issues with traffic coming out of here. Now you all have possession of the traffic study in your presence. And in that study it has indicated that the highest speed that was tracked during our comprehensive study was 79 miles an hour, and the average speeds were 43 to 53 miles an hour. The County has not made adjustments since taking over this road to mitigate and control the traffic problems. It only allowed additional traffic. Now having said that, the store as it is now with the additional traffic, also with the park across the street, it creates an attractive nuisance for our children playing in the park to go over and buy sugary drinks. KERN: Thank you. Any questions for the testifier? Commissioner Au? AU: Thank you, Mr. Chair. Past testifiers are claiming that they weren’t notified, I guess the community. I’m assuming you guys have monthly meetings, monthly notifications. You know, as your community members and landowners approach you guys for issues, you know, you guys have to do your job at addressing these concerns and issues. So you know, we are here for the applicant, Mr. John Hegarty. Okay, traffic is an issue. So the traffic that everybody is talking about, you know, it is a major issue. But keep in mind, everybody, that the applicant is for the store and traffic does have th everything to do with it. I’m going off the subject here. But my question to you is how, on the 4, Monday, they were on the agenda? Was there a meeting by your association and Mr. Hegarty, it was on the agenda? Is that correct? th GALIMBA: Okay, as of the 4, -. Okay, first of all, let me clarify. The first Monday of every month our Association has its monthly association meeting, our board meeting, excuse me. All members are allowed and encouraged to attend. Many President’s letters I’ve sent out encourage participation in th this area. As of the 4, Mr. Hegarty did not contact our Board, did not place anybody on our agenda to th speak on behalf of this project. On the 5, chronology working, in the afternoon before closing of our office, Mr. Hegarty called my secretary and indicated that he wanted to have a meeting with me the following day with a group of people at his personal house to discuss the store. Due to the fact that I 13 EXHIBIT C