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<br />DAHLBERG: I do. <br /> <br />MOSES: Please state your name, the area you reside in, and proceed. <br /> <br />DAHLBERG: My name is Peter Dahlberg. I reside in Hōlualoa in Kona. Do you need my <br />mailing address or—no? Just proceed? <br /> <br />MOSES: Yes, please. And speak directly in the mic. Thanks. <br /> <br />DAHLBERG: Good morning staff, Commissioners, Director Kanuha. My name is Peter <br />Dahlberg, and I have applied through my company, Aina Engineers, Inc., on the behalf of Arrow <br />of Oregon/Hawai‛i LLC for an amendment to their Special Permit with regards to an established <br />quarry operation in Hawaiian Ocean View Estates. <br /> <br />The proposed amendment is to increase the area on their current permit. The property is located <br />near the top of Ocean View Estates. You may have ordered or purchased material from this <br />business, either directly or indirectly. If not, please go and visit them at their location. It is <br />approximately six miles to the site from the Belt Highway, approximately 80 miles from where <br />we sit today. When you leave Māmalahoa Highway, and enter the estates, you do so onto private <br />roads. These roads are controlled by the HOVE Road Maintenance Corporation which I will <br />refer to as HOVE RMC. The corporation has by-laws and extremely broad authority. I would <br />like to make sure each Commissioner has a copy of the by-laws and will speak more to this later. <br />Does everybody have a copy of the by-laws? <br /> <br />Arrow Hawai‛i manufactures and sells the following products to name a few: cinder soil, one- <br />third nursery mix, crushed rock, crushed aggregates. You can call to order. For reasons to be <br />discussed below and subject of this permit, delivery is unfortunately not included, and rates are <br />subject to change. <br /> <br />The activity is cinder and rock quarry mining. It is recommended policy of the Ka‛ū Community <br />Development Plan and very soon to be adopted. It’s considered an appropriate diversification of <br />agriculture lands. The material has many uses and applications--cinder for uses of rudimentary <br />driveway over broken lava, typical of the HOVE Ranchos area, and for use as soil replacement <br />or amendment in top soil, landscape fill, septic system leach fields, etc. Rock is for use as <br />construction base and fill. This is not a lucrative business. It is currently regulated by MSHA <br />through an active mining permit. To put it simply, the conditions recommended by the Planning <br />Department will cost money. This cost may be, get passed onto the customer, or this cost may <br />put the operation out of business. <br /> <br />Unknown special assessments, amounts levied by HOVE RMC, fearfully increase this risk. The <br />applicant is acceptable to the majority of the conditions proposed by the Planning Department. <br />I’ve been scrambling as of late to address the inserts proposed by HOVE RMC. I, I don’t even <br />nd <br />know if I have the most current iteration of their inserts. I’ve got June 2 over here. I believe <br />rd <br />it’s now dated June 3. <br /> <br />5 <br />EXHIBIT B <br /> <br /> <br />