2013-12-05 Windward Transcript - Ocean View

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you too much with the math, but we’ll come back to that in a minute. Maku‘u Market also provides several traffic control attendants. It is a much larger market than the Ranchos Market. I’ve on a typical day counted at least eight traffic control attendants; and they basically move people along the driveway, the loop driveway, and allow people to back up and park safely. And they just kind of keep traffic moving into the driveways, into the parking stalls. They also provide signage on the property showing what areas can be used for parking and what areas are off limits for parking. And then obviously no parking is allowed on the adjacent State Highway. There’s something also that’s unique to Maku‘u Market, and it just occurred to me when Mr. Peebles and Mr. Nitche were talking. Maku‘u Market kind of has a natural barrier from the market area which sits below the highway. There’s a berm going up to the highway. So you obviously have no real incentive to park along the highway or to cross the highway. The Ranchos Market is different cause that area is relatively flat. So there’s no obstruction. So, for example, there’s like some kind of fencing along Kuhio Boulevard to kind of prevent people from crossing the highway and make it more desirable for them to park on site and stay on site, that might serve as a solution, some kind of temporary fencing. So going to the Ocean View Ranchos swap meet, as I said it’s a little bit smaller in size. You have the highway here, Prince Kuhio Boulevard. The vending area currently is outlined in yellow. I also outlined this area in blue for a parking area because they are vending out of their vehicles. There are about 52 parking spaces in this area here; and then there’s the internal driveway into the main shopping center, and the parking area for the swap meet, as well as two accesses off of Kuhi‘o Boulevard into the swap meet site. So you have a parking area in this area also that provides about 50 stalls. And then very hard to see but there’s a green circle over here that shows the overflow parking. And I’m not exactly sure how much of this parcel is used for overflow parking. So, again, the vending area is approximately 30,000 square feet in size. Our Zoning Code would typically require 100 parking stalls for that area, and they have about 104 stalls, if you count the vending area and the parking area near the shopping center. So that’s about 52,500 square feet of parking areas, which comes out to about 1.75 square feet of parking area per square foot of vending. So they’re providing quite a bit less parking in comparison to their vending area compared to Maku‘u Market. And I think that’s why there may be, that’s one of the reasons there may be a problem with people parking off site. Previously one traffic control attendant was provided by the Road Association to prevent parking along Kuhio Boulevard. This is all based upon information both that the applicant and the Road Association has provided to us. The Road Association has installed no parking, no vending signs along Kuhio Boulevard; and I believe they also striped the road shoulder fronting the farmers market for no parking, no vending. Some of the signs have since been damaged or defaced. And as I mentioned before, they are providing the overflow parking lot across Kuhio Boulevard down Maile Drive, but this parking lot is outside of the special permit area. So a couple of conditions for the Commission to consider, right now the permit does not have any, does not contain any conditions related to parking, or traffic control, or hours of operation, 15 EXHIBIT B