2013-09-26 Leeward Exh B - Hualalai Partners

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Page 2 has incorrect information. The project site is not adequately served by transportation or utilities. Hualālai Road is a substandard road. And utilities include storm water runoff, as demonstrated yesterday by our river that ran down Hualālai Road, along with rocks and debris. And if anyone hasn’t driven on it, I would request that you do drive on Hualālai Road and evaluate it for yourself first hand, and make any approval you make a condition of the 50-foot wide recommendation that you did address in your request. The project site is part of a larger development, and no drainage study has been done on the 96 acres. The Planning Department is requiring a north-south connector road across private property adjacent and contiguous to the south of the project site. The owner of this parcel has not been contacted by anyone as of September 18, 2013, regarding granting, selling, or getting access across his property, as is verified by the developer who just testified. Page 2 has incorrect information. The south, north-south connector road has to cross privately owned property, as mentioned above. And page 3, the project site’s proximity to schools would foster educational opportunities. The school system is already overburdened. Page 3 states that Hualālai Road is substandard based on width alignment, roadside and hazard clearance. No plan has been submitted to rectify this situation. The T.I.A.R. impact analysis report is at best incomplete, which only addresses the project site, not the 96 acres that this development is part of, and concludes that the level of service at the intersections of Puapuaanui Street and Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway and Hualālai Road and Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway are, and the entrance to the project, are either A or B classifications. We the citizens are not concerned with the level of service during peak hours at these intersections. The intersections are not the concern – and that’s what the T.I.A.R. addresses – it’s Hualālai Road. Thank you. GIFFIN: Commissioners, any questions of the testifier? Hearing none, thank you. Sir, your name. VAN PERNIS: Mark Van Pernis. I testified earlier. I’ll try not to repeat. GIFFIN: Thank you. VAN PERNIS: First, let me digress by saying, I did, I, as a Kona attorney and one who’s involved with land development, was offended by Mr. Lim’s threats to you that if you don’t approve this development, everything is going to shut down in Kona. I would point out that there’s over 130,000 units already approved for development in Kona. And the K to K area where this property is situated is all open for development. Now, let me point out on this map a few things. Those six lots -. GIFFIN: You need to speak into the mike. VAN PERNIS: Those six lots did not exist prior to 2004, that’s what Mr. McInnis was referring to. Mr. Bolton owns two, Barrett owns two, Schuler owns two. They’re all being, the Land Use Commission rules for over 15 acres are being abused here. You’re being exploited by the 15-acre per lot development here, right under 15 acres. Mr. Barrett owns the top two through various entities that he controls. And he has admitted that he is developing both, in the last proceeding, both parcels, 30 acres, develop them together. That requires land use involvement; there are streets, roads, drainage and many other issues that need to be addressed before the Land Use Commission. 19 EXHIBIT B