2013-07-11 Windward Transcript Hirakami

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are health and education; and I’m pretty involved in the education of our youth in the Pāhoa area. And so this is kind of out in my league, so I wanted to let my wife Lynda described the proposed use of the clinic. L. HIRAKAMI: Hi, good morning. Thank you for allowing us to come and speak with you today. As Steve said, you know, one major facet of our community that’s lacking in Pāhoa is health care services. We do have the clinic, the public clinic, but not everybody wants to go to the public clinic. And many of us for years have driven to Hilo to be seen by a provider. So this will be the first of its kind, and I think it’s a service that the time is now. And I think it would be a wonderful thing to provide quality health care to our residents in our village. S. HIRAKAMI: Thank you. And now about some of the conditions. I looked over the recommendations and the conditions for the permits and it’s all doable. I’ve had the Water Department out there. He says, I was trying to get my backflow preventer put up by the house because a lot people walk by and they fill their water bottles. You know, there’s a bleeder, and there’s also vandalism. And we’re not going to be there at night so if somebody runs over our meter or kicks over our stand we’ll lose a lot of water, the County will lose a lot of water. So, there’s no outlet before the main valve, which is right next to the house. And I kind of had the Board of Water Supply guy out there; and he says unless you cement the whole line leading up to the house, you have to put it 5 feet from the property line. So they’re afraid of letting you put it by the house and then later on you put a spigot down between the area. So cementing in the line would prevent it. So I guess we’re going to take our chances by putting the backflow preventer right there on the street of Pāhoa and take our chances. Also, I met with the Fire Captain, Robert Perreira. He was nice enough to come out to the property and look over the fire lane that I needed to do, and then also the surface of the roadway. And although it looks like grass it’s compacted gravel. The former owner actually owned a granite company, he sold granite out of that thing. He didn’t go for a use permit, by the way, but -. So anyway they brought up 40-foot containers with a semi-truck and backed it up into this thing that I’m having to fill to reestablish the driveway. And so the driveway, there’s pictures on the second sheet. On the bottom of the second sheet is actually what the makeup of the parking area and the driveway is. It’s really compacted gravel, and it’s all level. So, anyway, I talked with Captain Perreira and he said that an all-weather surface is sufficient for fire, for them. And he said that he would sign off on it. The other problem is that with a paved parking lot that big and a 20-foot driveway that big, when it rains in Pāhoa -. As you know Pāhoa gets a lot of rainfall but it gets in storage real fast so you hardly see any water puddles. With a paved parking lot and a 20-foot driveway, you know, and downpour rain, that thing will collect and then, you know, it would distribute it down that driveway. It’s quite a steep driveway, not that steep, but sort of directed right through the area where the people cross and everything, and it might cause a hydroplane thing. So I was just kind of, kind of wondering -. One of the conditions I wanted to see is if I could leave it in the existing condition -. Cause it is compacted gravel and it’s an all-weather surface. The other conditions are relatively minor. The letter from Winifred Enriques basically says that she’s been there all her life. She was born actually on our property in 1941, so basically 72 years she has been a resident of that -. And if you look at the pictures on the second page, too, that 4 EXHIBIT B