2014-07-03 Hearing Transcript - LK&RR Enterprises, LLC REZ 14-174

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MIYASATO: Could you please speak into the mic, please? KIMATA: Yes. MIYASATO: State your name and your residence. KIMATA: Arlene Kimata, 548 Hīnano Street. I’m across the street from the applicant’s property. MIYASATO: Okay, go ahead. KIMATA: I happen to be the one person who did not receive the notice. Maybe the one in the entire notification pool. That was after I had submitted a complaint to both the Planning Department and the Building Department. I should first, well secondly say, that I am just a homeowner. I’m not a builder, a planner, a real estate developer, a merchant, anybody that might possibly want to rent space in this proposed building. But what I am disturbed by is the blatant disregard for all the procedures that this Commission has set up for proposed zoning changes. You’re the only body that will help someone like me who really doesn’t have the ability to hire expensive consultants or assisted or be assisted by, you know, construction folks and know what the deal is. You know, we’re just there with our property, and we’re hoping to enjoy it with our kids, hopefully pass that property on to future family, and I just have to say that if there is no rule about having to follow the rules, there really should be. I think it’s your job as a Planning Commission and you know you’re not the only body. This whole County. I mean this—it’s something that needs to be an up-front process so that people like me don’t feel like you’re just gonna get steamrolled by applicants who are much more knowledgeable, craftier, have way more resources than we do. As I said, I am just across the street, and I’ve been watching the development of this property, and I have to say that, you have some photos there. Ever since the building was demolished, there has been constant, and the building was put in, there have been constant traffic of double axel vehicles, pumper trucks, all kinds of construction vehicles that are being warehoused in this facility. And I understand that this may not be against the rules. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. Again, I don’t know. But, what I do know is that the proposed building from the get-go was not ever a residential facility. It was constructed as a warehouse as you can see from the photos and in the applicant’s photos. There was never an intention for it to be a residential facility, and for that, I really feel like the applicant should not be allowed to have benefitted from prior rezoning and then in the future, there needs to be something done about this. MIYASATO: Commissioners, any questions? Thank you. Commissioners, any discussion? FUKE: (from audience) Can I— MIYASATO: Go ahead. 4 EXHIBIT A