2013-12-05 Windward Transcript - Ocean View

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folks on whether or not they can use the County lot across the street. And so it makes it very difficult to solve. There isn’t a single way to control people’s behavior. They will always park on the shoulder unless you put up curbs making it impossible. It doesn’t matter how many signs, how many -. People will always go to the open space closest where they want to be. So, anyway, that’s just my observation on having written the application regarding meeting the County requirements for parking for an activity of this sort. Thank you. NITCHE: May I answer that. We found that it worked very well when we hired a couple of guys, just two Saturday mornings to direct the traffic. It was no problem. They went to the parking areas, everything was fine. That’s all we request, is that they have someone to direct the parking. Again, it’s the safety issue that we’re talking about; and we feel it’s very necessary that they have somebody there with a vest on or something to direct the traffic. That’s all we request. And I think that’s being very reasonable. And they have provided, there is parking but nobody is aware of some of the parking, and the signage is very inadequate. Thank you. ISHIBASHI: Thank you, Don. Maija, you’re the hero. COTTLE: I don’t know about that. Well, I think Commissioner Henkel had the same ideas I had when he brought up Maku‘u Market. This is a farmers market that is working really well. It started out small and it has grown over the years. And every time that the market has grown DHHL which runs the market has grubbed and graded additional area of their property to provide more parking. So I just want to do a quick comparison of the two markets and then suggest some solutions that I’m hearing Mr. Peebles and Mr. Nitche are agreeing on that maybe can be implemented. So, let’s see, the driveway into the market is shown in red; and it’s kind of a looped driveway. There’s one entrance and exit on Highway 130. So all traffic and parking is contained on site. There’s a looped driveway, and then access into a large overflow parking lot as well as two parking lots on the side of the entrance. So the parking lots are shown in blue, they’re outlined in blue. There’s parking here, here, here. If I’m not mistaken most of the vendors park in this area. There’s also parking along both sides of the driveway, right next to the vendor tents. This market is a little bit different because vending is occurring from the back of the vehicle. There are actually quite a few tents. And then, let’s see, the last thing I want to show you is the actual vending area which is outlined in the yellow. So you can just see, yeah, so I’ll come back to this slide in just a minute. So the Maku‘u Market, just a few quick facts, I don’t know the specifics about the number of stalls of this market because it is run by DHHL so they don’t really have to get any permitting through the County. So we don’t have specific records on the number of parking stalls. But I did just a rough estimate and measurement on the aerial image to come up with these figures. So approximately 68,000 square feet is vending area. Those are the vending tents. Typically our Zoning Code would require 227 parking stalls, based on that vending area. And the Maku‘u Market is providing about 186,000 square feet of parking area. So that roughly comes out to a ratio of 2.74 square feet of parking area per square foot of vending area. I’ll try not to confuse 14 EXHIBIT B