2014-11-20 Leeward Exh C (SPP 14-169)

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The Planning Director’s recommendation in this case is approval of the application, with conditions. That is the end of my presentation. I stand ready to answer any questions the Commission may have. BEAUDET: Thank you, Christian. Commissioners, any questions for staff? HICKCOX: Just for a point of clarification, this is to be used as a volunteer fire station, so it will not be manned 24/7? KAY: That is correct. HICKCOX: Thank you. BEAUDET: Any more questions from Commissioners? Okay. I’d like to call the applicant or its representatives up to the front, please. Okay, if I could swear you all in. Please raise your right hands. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth now before the Leeward Planning Commission? APPLICANT’S REPRESENTATIVES: Yes. I do. BEAUDET: Okay. If you could just introduce everyone at the same time. We’ll start with you, Greg. MOOERS: My name is Greg Mooers. I’m the planner for the applicant. To my left is Guido Giacometti who is the president of AOK and the applicant. To my immediate right is Chief Honda from the Hawai‘i County Fire Department, and further to the right is Captain Mike Shattuck, the captain of 9 Bravo Volunteer Fire Company for the last seven years. BEAUDET: Thank you. Please proceed. MOOERS: We have received the staff’s background report and the recommendations, and have a couple of comments we’d like to make. 9 Bravo has been operating this site, I will note, since 2007, and they are an extremely active group. Their last fire they rolled on was last Thursday. The last fire in our neighborhood was eleven days ago. So they are very important part of our community. And I think, the people behind me, I asked not to sign up to testify in deference to your schedule and the amount of time it would take, but they are here to support the application. We have reviewed the proposed conditions, and offer a couple of recommended changes that we’d like to see to clarify. Currently, looking at Condition 6, there is one thing that we would like to omit: This has to do with the operation of the truck in the neighborhood, or the trucks in the neighborhood. We do not turn the sirens on in the neighborhood unless the emergency is within the neighborhood, but they do use the emergency lighting when they are moving the trucks in the time of emergency. So what we would recommend is on Condition 6, on Line 5, is to omit the term “emergency lighting” so that the sentence would read, “Furthermore, emergency vehicles shall be prohibited from using sirens within the Anekona Estates, ‘Ōuli, or Kānehoa subdivisions unless the emergency is within the subdivisions.” According to our captain, safety protocol does call for the use of lighting; so if they are rolling on the fire, as they move from the garage out onto Kawaihae Road, they would have their lights on but no siren. So we would recommend the change. 3 EXHIBIT C