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BEAUDET: Thank you. So you’ve received the Planning Director’s background report and
<br />recommendations. Are you in agreement with the conditions?
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<br />MIKKELSON: Yes, we are.
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<br />BEAUDET: Okay.
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<br />MIKKELSON: I do have something to add. You’ve asked about the other, the precedent setting of
<br />the rezoning. There was a time in history that they allowed, the State and the County, allowed for
<br />‘Ohana permitting and CPRs on Ag lands. And the subdivision is completely full of that. So most
<br />of those properties have at least one ‘Ohana and they do have CPRs on several other properties
<br />there. So it is divided already, just not divided by means of change of zones.
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<br />SMITH: I’ve made up a map here showing all of our neighbors that have ‘Ohanas and CPRs that
<br />have essentially doubled the density on their three-acre lots, and of course they did these, you know,
<br />back in the 90’s whenever. Can I give you guys this map? So you can see my neighborhood is, out
<br />of the eight lots, including mine, below the mulch farm, six of the lots have been CPRed or have
<br />‘Ohana dwellings on them; they all have two buildings on them and they are all, you know, they are
<br />rental properties or what have you, but they are single-family buildings. My lot where we’ve got
<br />the one house, CPR ‘Ohana is no more, it’s also a condition of our recommended approval that I
<br />would not be able to CPR or ‘Ohana, just one single-family dwelling. That’s what we are going
<br />after; that’s fine. Above the mulch farm there’s two more lots that are very close that did the same
<br />thing, CPR and ‘Ohana with two dwellings on them.
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<br />So our goal is, you know, we worked hard all the years, we’ve had the lot since 2005, purchased in
<br />’05, mind you we purchased it when the egg farm was in full-blown operation and there were days
<br />when the trade went through howling, which they do howl in Waiemi, that I mean the whole
<br />neighborhood has to have, batten down the windows. We bought it realizing that my neighbor,
<br />David, he’s a very good guy and a well-respected diversified farmer, not a problem, we didn’t know
<br />he was going to go to mulching later one, but we were willing to make it work and work on our own
<br />plans. But as time went by we just, you know, the option of doing the second dwelling on there to,
<br />you know, add for family rental, tenant rental, to go towards our retirement, you know, that’s our
<br />goal and we ask you guys really consider this.
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<br />David next door, some concerns about changing the nature of the subdivision, with the more
<br />residential, well, I just described that; there’s already two homes on the all CPR lots below us, due
<br />to CPR and ‘Ohana. Yes, David, the wind blows that howls through there sometimes, and we are,
<br />we have some different plans for the new building to help mitigate that; we won’t do a two-story
<br />building because that’s kind of a direct hit from the mulch operation, but we’ve never complained, I
<br />mean never complained to the Health Department, and David has been good about moving his piles
<br />around. He’s a great neighbor, so I have nothing negative to say about him. But we’ll work, I
<br />mean, he may not have a mulching operation in a few more years, who knows, but, you know, we
<br />are in for the long haul, so we are okay.
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<br />Water meter, no water meter was available makai of HPA, below the bridge – forgot the name of
<br />the bridge. I started in, with the Department of Water Supply, 2011. Finn McCall was the engineer
<br />at the time, and I just kept communicating with those guys because I know down the line I need a
<br />second meter to be able to do just about anything. And, you know, he kept telling me, “Yeah, I’m
<br />all ready, you know, one of these days you’ll get water service, second water service, but first we
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