2013-12-05 Windward Transcript - Ocean View

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WESTERVELT: My name isBradley Westervelt. I am the authorized agent for Ocean View Partners and have been handling the correspondence and the updating of the special permit. There have been a series of dialogue that has brought this question around to several different agencies in the County. And here today we have Mr. Peebles who is Ocean View LLC and he will be speaking on this matter. But I’m here for support and to answer any questions that may come up due to the special permit revision that I, excuse me, I wrote earlier this year, and was approved by the Planning Department. And we’re actually very interested to learn what issues in there we need to change or modify to be in compliant. PEEBLES: Hi, I’m Bill Peebles. I think the best way to handle this is to kind of go over the quick history. We purchased the property which already had an existing swap meet approximately 10 years ago. This swap meet has been in existence for about 15. It is one of the few community activities we have in our area. If you’re familiar with Ka‘u we have a 70-mile tract with no traffic lights and no stop signs. It’s remote. When we purchased the property the swap meet was being run by the owners of Desert Rose at that time. We intended to close the swap meet. And somehow about 50 people got my unlisted home number and called me asking us if we would keep it up. We asked the Desert Rose people to just get an insurance policy. They decided that the expense was too much and they didn’t do it, which left us with a community that wanted it. And so we took it over. And we had South Point U-Cart, Inc., Dan and his wife, which at that time managed the swap meet. As it got bigger, and if I would, could you put that map back up, please, so I can kind of explain. Right here is where the swap meet originally is. Right now it averages approximately 25 vendors on a Saturday. It lasts about 4 hours. Due to concerns from other people here, we then moved it over to this section here, which actually takes probably 50 to 70 vehicles, if possible, but there are usually 25 vendors. Then due to issues raised by a couple of individuals and ranchers that the problem as I see it they complained that the parking, people are parking along this side of the road. The police have been called numerous times. The police have said there is no problem for access or anything. It’s an issue of parking on the side of the road. Because of the, and I don’t know how I did that guys. Now according to our application, which I have, I don’t know if you guys have, we have met all the County requirements for parking and everything, excuse me, within just this general area. And approximately two years ago there were complaints that people were parking on the side of the road. So we went to their, the board meeting; and at their board meeting we heard all sorts of things from picking up cones from the County every Saturday and put them along the side of the road, all of this. And during the meeting I said I’ll tell you, let’s see if we can help you. So then we went in this very large parking area here for any additional parking. We actually have more available parking than the County park in Nā‘ālehu. And the biggest issue seems to be that people continue to want to park along the side of the road. Now please keep in mind the Police Department said there’s not an issue, the Fire Department said there’s not an issue. We have spent a lot of money to make it where there’s more available parking. There’s more parking there, again, than the Nā‘ālehu County park. And if parking along the side of the road becomes an issue, what do we do? Do we shut down Nā‘ālehu, the County park? Because we can’t have 3 EXHIBIT B