2012-08-02 Windward Transcript Regency

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KERN: Thank you. Any other questions for the applicant or their representative? Seeing none, gentlemen, you may have a seat. STROUD: Thank you. KERN: You’re welcome. We’ve got two people signed up from the public to testify. Can I call up David Purcell and Don Palakele, Pakele. TORIGOE: Pakele. KERN: Pakele. Good morning. You’re Mr. Purcell? PURCELL: Yes. KERN: And is Mr. Pakele available? PURCELL: Yes. Excuse me. He’s at the back of the room. He was going to ask you to let me go first. KERN: Okay, and we can do that. You’re on the first list. I will wait till Mr. Pakele sits down and I’ll swear you both in. Can I get you both to raise your right hand. Do you swear to tell the truth today before the Windward Planning Commission? TESTIFIERS: I do. KERN: Okay. And, so you’re going to have three minutes. And I just need your name and area in which you live and then you may begin. And what I’m going to do is when there’s a minute left, I’m going to waive the yellow thing just so you know there’s a minute left. Okay? So, Mr. Purcell, go ahead, give us your name and area in which you live, and you may begin. PURCELL: My name is David Purcell. Excuse me. I reside at 558 Kaumana Drive, which is on the mauka side of Kaumana. I’ve lived there continuously since January of 1970. To put this a little differently, the proposed entrance to the Regency South facility will be located 81 feet up the hill, excuse me, from the centerline of my driveway. Viewed from another perspective, the proposed entrance is going to be approximately in the middle of the long sweeping curve, which you've seen here. I am going to be very brief because Mr. Fuke already covered some of the things that I was going to bring up. But let me just hit some high points, cause if you folks are getting as tired as I am we all th want to get out of here. I attended the May 14 community meeting. And one thing was very clear, that everybody who spoke up at that meeting talked about the problem of speed on Kaumana Drive and the fact that that particular curve over the years has been the site of a large number of accidents, some of them pretty horrendous. In response to those comments, Mr. Fuke met with my neighbors and I, just to confirm what he was saying; and actually Mr. Stroud also met with the neighbors. And we talked about ways that might, things that might be done to improve sight distances and things like that. And the, all of our suggestions have been incorporated into the drawing. And let me just finish by 15 EXHIBIT B