2014-07-03 Hearing Transcript - Scott Watson Amend SMA 450

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Now, in 2010, the Applicant had the shoreline recertified, and that shoreline starts here, extends downward, and then follows along this area here. It’s shown as a solid green line on Exhibit 4. So, if the Planning Commission were to approve this amendment request, the new 40-foot shoreline setback from the 2010 certified shoreline would be—I will show you where it’s located—it’s identified as a light, I’m sorry, it’s identified as a red dash on Exhibit 4, so again we start here, extend, it’s actually not really identified in this area, but then it picks up again here and goes along here. So, you can see that the shoreline setback currently goes through the location of where Mr. Watson is proposing to build his house. This is his proposed house. This is the proposed tennis court, and the proposed pool and his driveway. I also want to just show you the existing public access easement as well as his proposed public access easement. The existing easement is identified on Exhibit 4 in a dark blue dashed line. So, it starts here at the road, it extends downward. And I should say it’s the area between the dark blue line and the solid pink line on Exhibit 4. So, it starts here, goes down to here, and then up here. And the new proposed public access easement starts again at the road. It’s shown in the dark pink dashed line. It extends down Mr. Watson’s driveway towards the sea and then it curves around down to the sea in this direction. So, it moves it from the south side of the property to the north side. This is an aerial view of the property. This image was taken from Google Earth, and it was, it was from January of 2013, so it is old. The road is located off to the top left side of the slide. This is the general location of Mr. Watson’s driveway which curves around to the house. The house has not been constructed. There are, there is rebar in the ground, and forms for pouring concrete, but the concrete has not been poured yet. But, this gives you a general idea of the location of where he is proposing his house. These little dots here at the bottom are rebar columns that will be columns for the lanai. So, you can see the general topography of the area. And, this is a view of the top of the sea cliff, so let’s see. Just to orient the Commission. Sugar Mill Road’s in the—Sugar Mill Road is in the background behind these trees. Mr. Watson’s driveway comes off in this direction off of the slide. This view is taken right about in this location looking down in this direction towards the sea. You’ll see the sea on one side. You’ll see this palm tree on another side. So, here’s the sea. Here’s the palm tree. These are the concrete, I’m sorry, the rebar forms for the lanai pillars. This is another view looking a little bit further up towards the proposed house, so you can see the top of the pali, the top of the sea cliff that was identified in the 2002 certified shoreline survey. This is a view looking, standing in the same spot, looking in the opposite direction looking east. And then this is a view standing at this location looking straight down, straight south towards the sea. And, I have a few things to add. We have received some correspondences. I do want to say that the Director is not making a recommendation at this time. We have received a correspondence nd that we’ve given to you this morning from Deborah Chang. This is a letter dated July 2. It’s a st two-page letter. You should also have an email from Chris Yuen dated July 1. That’s one page. And, you should have a document, a Decision & Order, from the Third Circuit Court, and 8 EXHIBIT E