2014-11-20 Leeward Exh B (REZ 14-179)

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I have no other comments at this time. I would be happy to answer any questions that any of you might have. Thank you for this opportunity. And I appreciate from the others the opportunity to go first; I have an eleven o’clock appointment. BEAUDET: Thank you, Mr. Tyler. Any questions or discussion with the testifier, Commissioners? Thank you. TYLER: Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. I hope you will look into that before you approve the condition. BEAUDET: Thank you. We appreciate that. We’ll start at the far right. If you could please state your name. DIANE BLANCETT-MADDOCK: Hello. My name is Diane Blancett-Maddock. I live on Kamehamalu Street, right above from the proposed change. One of my concerns is that the conditions that you are proposing that they submit a parking lot plan and landscaping things be done before the approval is done by the Planning Commission to make sure that they do comply with what you are asking them to do, because if you approve the change before the plan, there might be a chance that they will not do what they are supposed to. And I just drove by there today, and they already have paved the parking lot, they are already using it for the conditions that they are asking for now. It’s a paved parking lot, there is a wall, there are cars on it; so they have already been using this location before they had the zoning change, as an agricultural thing. The other thing that I’m concerned about is my house has an ocean view and a coastal view currently. If you permit any additional height, if you permit any additional growth on this property, on this site, I will lose my ocean view and my coastal view. Currently, this plan, this location is about 30 feet above the highway, so you are putting 30 feet there and you are putting 30 feet above that, you are going to talk about 60 feet or whatever the height restrictions are. It’s going to really block up the view of all these houses in the Kona Vistas Estates. I can currently see the location, the top of the roof already of the two-tiered building there. They are tiered up and they go all the way up this, they go up the mountain, the side of the mountain. They are not on the highway as the other commercial uses are; they are above that. Thank you. BEAUDET: Sir, please state your name and your residence. DAVID BLANCETT-MADDOCK: David Blancett-Maddock. That’s my wife. I always let her speak first. I also live on Kamehamalu. I have a several things and I have a couple of questions, if someone here could indulge me with the answers to those. Let me skip to one before I get to the other issues that are really primary to me. There is a condition here that the two properties merge as a single property for zoning purposes. My question is, how will you measure height once that happens? As you know from the topography running from north to south along the highway, that the topography rises at this location to probably its peak, and it then recedes down along, and if you look at the rest of the commercial zone that moves to the south, it runs into a valley where the lava has flown its highest point here. My wife has mentioned that there is nonconforming, what I would, in the terms I understand, it’s a nonconforming, illegal use that’s there currently. They are using it for the purposes that they are proposing to use it for. They may or may not do that in the future once the zoning change takes place. But if you consolidate these two properties, will you be measuring the height requirements from the highest point on the property, which will now be 6 EXHIBIT B