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<br />BRILHANTE: Good morning Chair and fellow Commissioners, William Brilhante on behalf of
<br />the County of Hawai‘i Planning Department. I’m Deputy Corporation Counsel along with
<br />Planning Director, Mr. Duane Kanuha. I think the reason we came forward is because if you
<br />look at the matters in front of us, Item No. 6 was actually initiated by the Planning Director so,
<br />therefore, you know, I think we have to kind of, we’re hoping to keep the record clear as to you
<br />know discussion regarding Item No. 6 as well as Item No. 7, although you know they pertain to
<br />the same project, there is you know two separate and individual requests, so therefore we’re
<br />wanting just you know to keep the record clear.
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<br />GONZALES: Very good. And if anybody wants to sign up to testify, you can go see Sarah over
<br />there. I have one person signed up but there’s a lot of people here so if you want to testify,
<br />please see Sarah. Okay, sir.
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<br />STROUD: Yeah, my name is David Stroud, and I reside in Ellensburg, Washington. And, we’re
<br />here primarily, and I received this fairly recently, but to discuss Condition 8’s request for an
<br />amendment to that condition. I acknowledge and certainly apologize for the fact that we did
<br />overlap in violation of the requirement to not begin vertical construction. Between the
<br />scheduling constraints, permitting constraints, we just ended up in a position where we had to
<br />keep going. We have, you know, 30 to 40 people on site. It would have necessitated laying
<br />everyone off, stopping progress. And these projects are like a big tree. Once we get going, it’s-
<br />it’s hard to stop them along the way. We certainly underestimated the time it would take to get
<br />through the process to be in the approval of the road improvements. And, you know, once that
<br />was initiated, we began those improvements. At this point, there is a significant portion of them
<br />done. We’re still delayed with some of the utilities and relocation of poles. But, in large part,
<br />that work should be wrapped up shortly. You know, I do apologize for the fact that we did
<br />violate that particular portion of the agreement. And there’s nothing more that I can say about
<br />that. I do ask that you allow us to continue this project. It’s providing a number of jobs, and
<br />now it’s going to provide a 150 jobs hopefully starting later this summer, and you know, we
<br />want to be able to continue this process. We certainly didn’t want to offend anyone by it.
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<br />GONZALES: Mr. Brilhante.
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<br />BRILHANTE: Thank you very much, Chair. Just to give you some additional background
<br />information as to why this matter is in front of the Commission you know today. Basically, Use
<br />Permit No. 12-0034 afforded the applicant the opportunity to move forward with their Use
<br />Permit; however, there was a Condition No. 8 that stated, and I’m just paraphrasing that, prior to
<br />vertical construction of the project taking place, the connection, the connector road between the
<br />project and Kaūmana Drive needed to be finalized due to the potential or the possibility of you
<br />know added congestion and maybe some safety hazards on Kaūmana Drive. So, the project was,
<br />you know the permit was approved, and was going forward. Subsequent to that and what got us
<br />here today was the Planning Department received numerous complaints from neighbors and
<br />various individuals regarding the fact that you know vertical construction had initiated on the
<br />project without the connection to Kaūmana Drive, that road being finalized, and therefore, you
<br />know, based on the complaints, the Planning Department sent out a you know a representative,
<br />their personnel, to inspect and indeed there was a violation confirmed that you know vertical
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