2014-09-04 Hearing Transcript-HACA SPP 845

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TITA: cease and desist— HENKEL: Excuse me, you know, we want to act on this either for you or against you— TITA: Yes. HENKEL: --but any action has been delayed since last January, and I tell you that I’m greatly fearing that you guys are going sit there and say the same thing over and over until next January, so could you please wrap it up? You’re repeating yourselves. Excuse me. TITA: I see your distain for me so we are finished. HENKEL: It’s been a long day. MIYASATO: Yeah, go ahead, Corporation—go ahead. BRILHANTE: Thank you, Chair. William Brilhante again, Deputy Corporation Counsel on behalf of the Planning Director in this matter. As we noted, Ms. Tita has raised legitimate concerns regarding parking and safety issues that this Applicant needed to address and needed to be vetted during the application process. Again, this is a process, and I think you know the process has worked its way through in accordance to the requirements of both the Code as well as the Planning Commission rules for a Special Permit. Specific items were identified in the Planning Director’s Recommendation of approval. Specifically, Item No. 3 says that the Applicant shall secure and finalize all Building Permits for all existing structures from the Building Division, Department of Public Works, within one year from the effective date of this amendment, proposed amendment. All parking for the community association, building, emergency, shelter, and the farmers market shall be on the subject property. Parking shall be prohibited on Road 8 or Road C for these uses. The Applicant shall provide traffic control attendant (attendants) to actively manage traffic flow and parking associated with the farmers market so that vehicles do not park or back up onto Road C and/or Road 8. The Applicant shall provide signage indicating where vendors and visitors may park on site. Hours of operation for the community center shall be from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. The farmers market shall be limited to one day a week and shall limit the amount of vendors to 20. No amplification of music and such and so forth. So, I think the issues that are being raised by Ms. Tita here are being adequately addressed and have been adequately vetted by the Planning Department through this process. And, the other thing I wanted to just draw your attention to is that this is a Special Permit application, and the current designation of the land is Agriculture. And HRS 205-2(d)(15) which was legislation recently passed in 2012, specifically proposes that the Counties create Ag districts that shall include Ag based commercial operations. And, one of the three specific Ag based commercial operations is the operation of farmers markets, and I think farmers markets in a specific community in a specific residence is very beneficial to sustainability, to reducing traffic use— you know, the use of the residents to have to go to the grocery store, you know which would be miles and miles away. So, the intent of HRS 205-2(d)(15) was specifically to promote this type 18 EXHIBIT H