2015-03-05 HearingTranscript - Hamakua Harvest SPP 14-175

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minute, but before I do that, I want to point out this is the location of the future ag processing facility, which I mentioned was a permitted in the ag district. And then, as I mentioned before, the remaining part of the property that has been leased from Kamehameha Schools will be used for growing orchards and crops. This is a zoom-in version of a site plan at the farmer’s market area. So, the driveway comes up to the site. There is a turnaround to make it easier for vehicles to get in and out. These little numbers of the bottom adjacent to the driveway are extra parking stalls. The main parking area is here, and it’s designed also to have a turnaround so that people can get in and out easily. The proposed farmer’s market structure is outlined in the dark blue here, and then there’s also room for a future addition of additional vendor stalls in the future. This little green, green outlined building on the east side here is a future restroom building. And then this building here is a future plant sales area, and then in the back, you have the plant nursery with the little access road off to the plant nursery. This is a view of the permit area from the highway looking north. I mentioned there’s an old camp road, and this picture is taken standing at that access. The farmer’s market would be built generally in this location here. And then, this is the camp road access off of the highway. Department of Transportation has asked that access to the highway in this area be prohibited. So, we included a condition that this area be gated. And, then this is a view from Māmane Street looking towards the highway. The highway is in the background here. This is their driveway off of Māmane, and you can see the property in the background on the left. This is again a view of the access onto Māmane, so there’s a paved apron coming off of Māmane and then it drops down to a dirt driveway which the Applicant will be placing gravel on. And then, this is a view of that dirt, dirt and semi-asphalt driveway up to the Special Permit area which will be in this area here. The Director is recommending approval of the request with the conditions contained in the Recommendation Report. And, I just want to go back and clarify one thing. When we first received the application, the Applicant requested the market operate on one weekday and one weekend day between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. They did, after reading our Background and Recommendation Report, this week, they did see that they wanted to expand their hours and days of operation, so you should have gotten an email from the Applicant requesting that the Commission consider that. Ideally, they would like to have the option of operating on both weekend days, Saturday and Sunday, and one day during the week. The--the weekend operation would be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. because typically markets start earlier on the weekends. And then, the weekday market would be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. And the Director has reviewed this request and is, is accepting of their request. So, we can come up with some language to modify Condition No., No. 10 if the Commission also agrees with that request. That concludes my presentation. MOSES: Thank you, Maija. Commissioners, any questions of the staff? ONO: One question. 3 EXHIBIT C