2014-05-15 Leeward Exh B (Amend SMA 388)

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BEAUDET: Did you receive the Planning Director’s background report and recommendations of the report? FOULK: Yes, I did. BEAUDET: Do you agree with the Director’s recommendations and its conditions of approval? FOULK: Yes, I do. BEAUDET: Thank you. Would you like to comment on your application? FOULK: There is not a lot to say here than we all recognize that where the economy went the last five years or so. I would like to say that these guys have maintained the dialogue, they’ve finished the permits that were open, and they have opened the dialogue with the civil engineer to finalize the permits for Kahakai Road and they’ve come to an agreement with Ki Emler here on the final drawings for that. So it’s our hope that we’ll be able to put Kahakai Road out to bid within a month or so. And, so they are actively pushing forward on these conditions as best as they can. BEAUDET: Where do you see your project in five years? FOULK: Well, I would really like to see it built in three. That’s what I, as a neighbor, I mean I live next door, and I get a lot of flak from my neighbors because it’s been sitting there vacant for a long time. And I lived in within 300 meters of there for 35 years, so that’s my neighborhood, my kids grew up there, my grandkids live there. It looks like hell, and I would like to see it done the way it’s supposed to be done, supposed to be landscaped. It’s been approved by the Kailua Village Design Commission. It’s a, yeah, I would really like to see it done. BEAUDET: Commissioners, any questions of the applicant? NOBRIGA: How many years has this cement foundation been sitting in the middle of the Village? FOULK: Well, the foundation has been sitting there for, it was completed, it was in this state in 2008, maybe early 2009. This SMA permit was issued in the 90’s to Blue Hawai‘i, I think, was the company, with the specific intention of raising the property value and flipping it. Pacific Monarch Resorts purchased the property, spent years consolidating the parcels in Land Court because it hadn’t been consolidated in Land Court, just the Regular System. They got through that. It was just one hurdle, and it was, whatever, it doesn’t matter, but they proceeded to try and get it built. I have building permits for the whole project on hand, so really the only permits that are lacking are Kahakai roadway. NOBRIGA: Thank you. BEAUDET: So the expectation is to develop Kahakai Road within 2014? FOULK: That’s what we are going to try. We are going to get numbers on it, see what it is, and try and get the sidewalks and the roadway part done because that’s one of the conditions for this permit. 3 EXHIBIT B