2012-12-06 Windward Transcript Connections

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AU: Okay. Have you attended any meetings? YOKOTA: I have attended meetings in the past. AU: Okay, okay. Any more questions? LEITHEAD TODD: Mr. Chair, I just want to make a note that the date of the letter that is going out to thth the community is dated December 5. So since today is the 6, I suspect that the reason that they haven’t gotten it, it is in the mail. Cause I have checked, and you are on the mailing list. But, so it will probably be in your mailbox today, tomorrow, or the next day. LEITHEAD TODD: Thank you very much. Next testifier, Layne Novak. Okay, please state your name and where you reside. L. NOVAK: Layne Novak, I live on Mele Manu Street. I apologize. AU: Microphone, please. L. NOVAK: I apologize, I didn’t pass this out to you earlier. But I’m testifying on behalf of Terence Yoshioka. I’m sorry. Applicant has attempted to create the illusion that the 70 acre property is the only suitable property for its school. It has done so by making the following representations: [1] that it will develop an agricultural program for its students: [2] that its agricultural program will require 20 acres of land; and [3] that the subject 70 acres is “uniquely suitable” for its program. But nowhere in its application has Applicant provided proof that an agricultural program is needed or wanted by its students. There is no basis, therefore, to assume that applicant will actually develop such a program. And any conclusion based upon the presumption that the program will materialize is unsupportable. You folks can read the rest. What he does say is that the Commission can, also, find, and I urge that it do so, that the property is not “uniquely suited” for applicant’s program. To be “unique”, the property must “exist as the only one”, or “have no like or equal”. This would mean that if the property’s “D” or poor rated soil is “uniquely suited” for the program, then all other properties with better-rated “C”, “B”, and “A” soils would not be “uniquely suited” for the program. It goes without saying that this is illogical, incomprehensible and unbelievable. What I want to add to this is that Mr. Thatcher talked about the entire green section as 1-acre ag land. When we moved there, we had no idea that the, a school was going to be built. Everything was going to be 1-acre properties; and that’s what we had agreed upon; and that’s why we bought in there. If you look at the soil, there is no soil. It’s built on lava, it’s built on a 1980 lava field. How they proposed to have agriculture on this type of land, I can’t even grow citrus fruits on my land. That’s how bad it is. I have to bring in soil. In fact, when Mr. Bill Brilhante, Sr. developed that property -. DARROW: One minute. 10 EXHIBIT D