2015-03-19 Leeward Exh B (Amend SPP 378)

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that the users of the gym are being exposed to pesticide drift from the neighbors’ property, so the gym should move; this is illogical and spurious, as the neighbor, as a pesticide applicator, is responsible for exercising caution and not creating adverse effect on Mr. Edney’s property. I suggest this concern of pesticide drift not be considered in the valuation of Mr. Edney’s application. Thank you. N. EDNEY: I’m Nancy Edney, the other partner in Lalamilo Farm Partners. I haven’t been too involved in this. We talk about it every night, but anyway, and I need to read this because I can’t memorize things anymore. We bought the property for Tropical Dreams almost ten years ago, but we needed help to pay the mortgage. The property was not cheap then, either. The building was there, so, you know, that’s what we used and we had all the additional greenhouses and things that needed to be filled. We are both beyond the retirement age at this point. We got involved in the community of growing things and helping out the community. We have been totally blindsided by all these allegations and negativity. All we wanted to do was make our ice cream and help the community. We were truly touched by all the positive feedback – sorry, I cry – coming from people that appreciate our support, especially how they feel about having a gym that they can use – sorry, I’m not a very good speaker. The Meadow Gold trucks were there when we bought the property; there was never any complaints about them, so nothing really has changed about that. And we do get all our dairy products from them that we need. The bread people make the product here in a certified kitchen and not under a tarp as stated; they bake outside but they don’t make things outside. We’ve all been approved by the Health Department and the FDA. This follows the better production. Peter Merriman asked us to make butter a few years ago, because he couldn’t get local butter, and since we use cream, it seemed a natural fit. We have one little machine and we make it one time a week or every other week. There were never a problem with all these issues when Honolulu Poi Company owned the building before; they had vegetable production in there, and I just don’t understand why now all the problems. The spraying issue has come up and it’s something new and the other side’s concern now. I don’t understand why; they’ve been growing cabbage forever as far as I’ve seen, and I feel that a farmer can do really what they want to do. But we were never warned about spraying schedule, and nobody ever seemed to be worried about our health until this last year. I don’t understand why these people have said all the allegations against us. I don’t understand their against, their hatred against our property; the buildings were here before us, and our intention has been the best and not to take advantage of anything on Lalamilo land. Thank you. BEAUDET: Thank you. HETZEL: My name is Andrew Hetzel. I live at 64-638 Puulapa Place in Waimea. As I’ve said, I’m a Waimea resident and a customer of these artisanal local food production and healthy lifestyle businesses. I’m also a senior trade advisor for the US Agency for International Development’s Competitive Agriculture of High Value Crops program in the Middle East, and I’ve served similar role in other ag value chain development programs in Africa, India, Brazil, China and elsewhere. There were two reasons that we relocated my family to Waimea twelve years ago from Los Angeles: the feeling of community offered by this town, and secondly, availability of locally produced sustainable food supply. I’m here this morning because I believe this permit issue potentially threatens both by the possible failure to approve this permit and by the precedent that it might set. Differentiation is the word that is used in my trade to discuss the reason that consumers pay for additional value in an agricultural product. Differentiation can be product quality, convenience, the story of how crops are grown, or the relationship that the consumer has with the producer and with the land. Without differentiation, agricultural products are commodities; they are 8 EXHIBIT B