2013-07-11 Windward Transcript Hirakami

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ISHIBASHI: Lynda Hirakami, you’re okay. L HIRAKAMI: I’ll talk. ISHIBASHI: Okay. Roger, you’re okay. GUENETTE: I spoke -. ISHIBASHI: Sorry, Brooks. Aloha. Could you state your name and address, please. MALOOF: Brooks Maloof, 15-1479 Puakalo Street, Keaau. I’m just here to support this project. It’s a perfect location. It provides a service that all of us need. And to wait for medical treatments and appointments is, you know, it’s almost a third world the way we’re set up now. So I’m just here to support. I agree with everything that has been said, and I want to thank the Planning Department for moving ahead and approving this; and, hopefully, these conditions that were added on there can be alleviated due to the fact that the building has been there for many years. And if everything is well established and they’re going to improve everything and bring it up to Code -. So that’s all I have to say. I commend everybody on this project. Thank you very much. ISHIBASHI: Thank you. Any questions from Commissioners? Okay thank you. Okay, Commissioner Henkel, you can make your motion now. HENKEL: Thank you. I apologize for going out of turn. I’m a long time resident, you know, this is my neighborhood down there; and this project is greatly needed and will greatly benefit the community. I also, you know, I know both of the neighbors, the Enriques and Paul. And there is a tremendous barrier with that, it’s pretty much a cliff that separates the two properties. So I would move that Special Use Permit Application No. 13-0140 be approved with a waiver of the two conditions of paving and landscaping. GONZALES: I’ll second. ISHIBASHI: It has been moved by Commissioner Henkel and seconded by Commissioner Gonzales. We’re open for discussion. Mr. Henkel. HENKEL: You know, the paving part of the waiver, what’s up there now is essentially a drainage field, you know, and it works as such. And I think adding pavement would probably, like Steve Hirakami pointed out, take what’s a stabled drainage field and turn it into a waterway, you know, pushing water where it doesn’t necessarily need to go. And that’s my reason for asking for that waiver. ISHIBASHI: Any further discussion? This is a project that’s very well needed in our community. Thank you for this project. I like that property. We used to go there as kids and go buy poi up there on that hill. There was a poi man up there. It was the good old days, big yard to run around with. So, yeah, I support this project. It’s a good one. And with the conditions, the two amendments that Commissioner Henkel put in, would be a problem? 8 EXHIBIT B