2014-01-09 Windward Exh A - Item 1 HACA

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GONZALES: Thank you. Could we have Ms. Tita come up also with her attorney. May I please have everybody raise your right hands so I can swear you in. Do you swear to tell the truth to the Windward Planning Commission today? PARTIES: Yes. GONZALES: Thank you. I believe we are going to start with the applicant. Sir, go ahead. LEHNERT: Good morning, everyone. My name is John Lehnert. DARROW: John, please use the microphone. LEHNERT: Hold it? DARROW: Yeah, they are recording. LEHNERT: Good morning, everyone. I’m John Lehnert. COMMISSIONERS: Good morning. LEHNERT: I understand you have a written statement by me in front of you? Everybody? Just for everyone else in the room, I’m a Hawaiian Acres Community Association member for 33 years and Hawaiian Acres’ secretary for nine years. And I had been supervising the farmers market for six years before we found out that it was not legal. I’m not sure what else to say unless you have more questions pertaining to my statement. Or would you like to guide me? GONZALES: Any questions from the Commissioners for the applicant? No? Okay. I’d like to ask Mr. Brilhante to go ahead, tell us what he needs to. BRILHANTE: Good morning, Commissioners, Chair Gonzales. William Brilhante, Deputy Corporation Counsel, appearing on behalf of the Planning Director. I think the submittal by the Planning Director regarding the Planning Director’s recommendations are on point, and that’s the position that the Planning Director is going to take. There is some concerns that were raised by the Hawai‘i County Police Department regarding potential traffic issues as it relates to the farmers market, which is, they request us to have a farmers market one day a week from four to six-hour period. And I think those recommendations were adequately addressed by the Community Association in which they are going to limit the vendors to 20 vendors, they are going to mandate, and very similar to the issue that we had with the farmers market down in HOVE, but in this case it seems like the Community Association is very, very willing and able and amenable to assisting with the traffic situation, the potential traffic situation where they are going to have actual association members directing traffic to specific off-road parking areas and limit the number of vendors. And, you know, like Mr. Lehnert has provided testimony to the fact that this farmers market has been in operation for about six years, so I would assume that the Association has a general idea, or a reasonable idea, as to the number of participants and the number of customers and members from the public that go in and frequent the farmers market; so therefore, I think they have a fairly good handle as to what the requirements will be in order to make sure that the road and access and congestion issues are all taken care of in an appropriate and timely fashion. And so therefore, based 4 EXHIBIT A