2012-08-16 Leeward Exh A - Bal Speedy Motors

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HICKCOX: Any other questions? Thank you, Daryn. Will the applicant or his representative please come forward. Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Hawai‘i County Planning Commission? BAL: I do. HICKCOX: Okay. Please state your name and the area that you reside in, and you may proceed. BAL: My name is Daniel Bal. I’m the applicant, and I live in Waimea. HICKCOX: Thank you. Do you have a presentation to be made to the Commission? BAL: I do not. In fact, Daryn did a good job. I would point out one thing – can you go to the picture that, where you showed the water spigot on the end of the building? Right there. This is actually the landlord’s side of the building, and the water spigot that he has put on this side of the building is for his use only. There is another one on the opposite side of the building that I use. But he actually put these in for his use. And my water usage is approximately ten gallons a week. There’s no water inside the building. We have Big Island water for drinking water. And I also built this mobile hand washing station that uses a five-gallon bucket on top of a five-gallon catch can on the bottom, and we go through that like once a week. In fact, I work by myself, so, you know, the five-gallon washing station last with me for a week. And I might have to go out and fill three- or four-gallon jugs of water for topping off radiators and windshield washers and stuff like that. But other than that we don’t use hardly any water there. But this one, this side of the building here, is for the landlord and he uses this side, and he uses probably more water on the spigot then I do. HICKCOX: Thank you. Commissioners, any questions on the applicant? BAL: I have one more comment. We talked about the traffic. I have three to four customers a day. The farmers go in and out of the road more than I do. So the traffic for me, I mean, that I generate in and out of that road is pretty insignificant. HICKCOX: Yes, Mr. Whittemore. WHITTEMORE: Just, I’m curious with the number of cars that you want to have permitted to park there, 25. If you say you get daily maybe four, what would cause there to be up to 25 cars there? It just seems like -. BAL: There is, I have like five there, and there is probably always five that are sitting there waiting for parts, and then five, I mean, normally there would be, like, 15 there, would be normal. Twenty-five is just to give some leeway in case there is some long term jobs or sometimes people tow something up and they will say, you know, there’s no hurry, just work on it whenever you can, and it will sit there for a month before I can get to it, so -. Yeah, 25 is like the outside, and I think the normal complement would be normally around 15 cars there. IOKEPA: Mr. Chair? HICKCOX: Yes, Mr. Iokepa. 5 EXHIBIT A