2012-12-06 Windward Transcript Connections

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L. NOVAK: Thank you. He had to bring in soil for, just to make our lawn. That’s how bad the property is. No. 2, in our subdivision covenants, we cannot have any farm animals. We’re not allowed to have “agricultural type of industry” within our 1-acre lot. So for them to come in and decide that they want to have this large agricultural property is, I think, a little overwhelming, and that’s an understatement, it’s quite overwhelming for our neighborhood. Thank you. AU: Thank you. Madam Director? LEITHEAD TODD: Yeah, I just wanted to make a comment. Those types of restrictive covenants on agricultural land are now illegal under State law. They were done commonly by people who were taking agricultural land to try and create basically residential subdivisions. Since then because of the concern of agricultural land being taken out of agriculture or potential agriculture and turned into residential high-end subdivisions, the State Legislature -. It doesn’t change your restrictive covenants cause they’re grandfathered. But the fact that you have restrictive covenants is not necessarily something that prevents somebody else from actually taking agricultural lands surrounding you and doing agricultural production. And that’s a mandate of, under State law. L. NOVAK: I just want to add that our covenant is, was just recently extended to 70 years. So it’s essentially our life time. AU: Okay, any questions for the testifier? Okay, next one, Dr. Henry Lee Loy. Please state your name, where you reside, and your three minutes. H. LEE LOY: Good morning, Members of the, good afternoon, Members of the Windward Planning Commission. I live on Mele Manu Street. My name is Dr. Henry Lee Loy. Together with my wife Pauline Kealoha Lee Loy, we continue to object to the location of the proposed Connection Charter School in Kaumana. My wife remains hospitalized in Honolulu and once again is unable to attend the public hearing. Let me recapitulate, as educators ourselves we strongly believe in the public school system. As graduates of Hilo High School and Honokaa High School we know the system works. Let me make this clear, we are not against the students of Connections Public Charter School. We object to the proposed location. At the last Planning Commission meeting Chairman Dean Au asked the applicant to reach out to the community. We have had no such communication from the applicant. Instead, I’m greatly concerned about the recent newspaper articles regarding the ethical conduct of the Vice Principal. We question the actions of the administration, of their administration and leadership. We ask the Windward Planning Commission to reject the special permit application for Connections Public Charter School. The intersection of Kaumana Drive and Edita Street is dangerous. Once again I’m going to show you the photograph of a recent accident right at the very intersection of Kaumana Street and Edita. There’s only one entrance and exit to the proposed school. This is dangerous. There is not enough water for 11 EXHIBIT D