2015-03-19 Leeward Exh A (SPP 15-177)

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Here is an aerial photograph of the area. Again, a little difficult to see, but I just wanted to show context of where the permit area is in relation to surrounding uses. The existing dwelling is located here within the trees. There has been significant clearing of trees that’s taken place; it’s a bit of an old photo. So the applicant is requesting a Special Permit to establish a five-room bed and breakfast facility using two of the three bedrooms within the existing 14,000-square foot main dwelling, and proposing the construction of three new detached bedroom suites to be built proximate to the main dwelling and consisting of approximately 720 to 1,000 square feet each, with a bathroom, bedroom and sitting area but no kitchen; so these would be again detached bedrooms. In addition the applicant is proposing to establish a special events facility, which operates independently from the bed and breakfast, in the main dwelling and immediate surrounding grounds for events such as wedding, seminars and other low impact activities. These special event activities would begin no earlier than 9:00 a.m. and no later than 10:00 p.m. Any use of amplified devices outdoors would end no later than 9:00 p.m. and would not exceed the State noise standards for residential uses. The applicant doesn’t anticipate any more than 100 participants on average for larger events; however, they could accommodate up to 200 for a larger event such as a wedding or something attached to the Kona Coffee Festival or some kind of a non-profit fundraiser or something alike. While not expected to be the norm, the applicant representative says that it’s possible that up to four smaller events per day could take place, like seminars, at the facility. The applicant indicated that they wouldn’t allow tour buses, but could accommodate passenger vans and personal vehicles with all parking requirements to be met on-site. Food service is proposed in conjunction with special events, which would include on-site catering and food preparation requiring a certified kitchen. And finally, the area of the proposed bed and breakfast and special events facility, inclusive of the main dwelling, surrounding grounds and the parking area would consist of no more than five acres. Due to a technical glitch, we are going to have to have my lovely assistant Jeff here make a quick change, and we’ll show you the site plan. It’s already open, Jeff, yeah. Okay, again here on the left you can see the outline of the entire parcel, with small here in red the outline of the special permit area, and it’s blown up here on the right. You’ll see the driveway is going to come up here on the left hand side and bring it around. Again, here is the main structure with the two bedrooms that are going to be used for the bed and breakfast that are inside the main structure, Bedrooms 1 and 2, the applicants would be living in the third bedroom in the house, and then here are the three different detached bedrooms that again would be proximate to the main dwelling. So that’s for the bed and breakfast use. Special events would be used kind of here on the south side of the structure and the Grand Lanai and surrounding area, as well as within the dwelling in, there is a meeting hall here, and then an outside courtyard area that would all be used for special events. There is parking for those events shown here in two different places totaling approximately 20,000 square feet; so that should be plenty of parking space available. Okay, all set. Thank you. Take a bow. Okay, here are some images of the driveway access from Māmalahoa Highway. As you can see, there are two separate approaches. It was difficult to get a picture of both of them in one, but there is an approach coming from the north and an approach coming from the south; so that’s kind of showing here, looking mauka from the north, looking mauka from the south, with the site again mauka up above those areas. Here is just images of some sight-distance Māmalahoa Highway looking north here on the left and Māmalahoa Highway looking south here on the right. And then just some views of the permit area. The reason I added this image is I kind of wanted to show proximity to the main structure of where some of the detached bedrooms were; this is No. 3 and it’s roughly 67 feet from the main structure. The second one is a view of the lanai here and kind of 2 EXHIBIT A