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

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Also, on Condition 7 these are volunteers, they all have fulltime jobs in other areas, and so their training primarily takes place in the afternoons. But we would like the opportunity on weekends for people who miss trainings to have an opportunity to train on equipment so that they can use the equipment out on a fire; we don’t want people going out on a fire, trying to use equipment they haven’t been trained on. What we would like to do is to change the constraint on the hours of operation between 4:00 and 7:00 p.m., and say between 8:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. But in recognition that we don’t want to have an eleven-hour training, is it we would add another word, or another sentence, so that the proposed Condition 7 would now state, “Training of 9 Bravo volunteer firefighters shall take place no more than five times a month and be limited to the hours between 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., provided there would be no more than three hours of training on any particular day.” So this would allow the opportunity on weekends when many of the volunteers are not working to train at that time, but that they would not train past 7:00 p.m. and there would be no more than three hours of training on any one day. I will note that we are not aware that there has ever been a complaint for noise for the training during the last seven years that the 9 Bravo has been in operation. And three of the four of us live in the neighborhood. One of the conditions I just want to go on record, you know, Conditions 4 and 5 are particularly related to the mitigation of the existing conditions. As staff pointed out, there are currently abandoned vehicles, some junk and some unauthorized parking on the subject parcel, and we are committed, as we are with the current landowner, Hale Wailani Partners, to remove those. I just want to go on record saying that I think Condition 4 is adequate; Condition 5, I think, is expensive and may not really achieve the goal, which is provide fencing along the road. However, we do not have any complaints or objection to this condition, because Mr. Frogley, the individual who had filed the contested case, has indicated that he would pay for the fencing along that. So if he is comfortable with that, that’s fine. We think the signage is going to work well once we get a contract with a tow company and start pulling vehicles out there; people are not going to be parking in there, if their vehicle is towed. But we do not have a problem with Condition 5 as written, and the only changes we recommend are the ones to Conditions 6 and 7. And I have provided staff with a copy of these proposed changes. BEAUDET: Commissioners, any comment or questions of the applicant before we move forward? KANUHA: Mr. Chairman? BEAUDET: Yes, sir. KANUHA: Staff has no objections to the proposed amendments to Conditions 6 and 7 as advanced by the applicant. BEAUDET: Thank you. Any more comment from the applicant? With that, we have one member of the audience who has signed up to testify. I’d like to ask Andrew Frogley to please come forward. Please raise your right hand. Do you swear now before the Leeward Planning Commission to tell the truth on this application? FROGLEY: I do. BEAUDET: Thank you. Please state your name and your address. 4 EXHIBIT C