2015-09-17 Leeward Exh A (REZ 15-192)

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enough available water, and that’s why there is, you know, there is conditions in there about water pressure, out-of-bounds agreement, you know, things in the nature. Should they, should the applicant or their successors or their assigns decide to apply for a farm dwelling in the future on any of these lots actually, if they can meet those requirements – it’s not only limited to the bigger lot, you know, they could possibly qualify depending upon what they want to do on the smaller lots as well, that’s why we feel the restriction is a form of contractual zoning, you know, it shouldn’t be incumbent upon the property – but at that time the subdivision requirements for water don’t apply, okay, so catchment could be done, or catchment system could be utilized to service the additional farm dwellings, right? In this area, you know, it just depends on what the rainfall is, again, what size the catchment system is going to be and so on and so forth. So I hope that kind of helps us explain things a little more. Thank you. BEAUDET: Thank you, Director. I appreciate that. Commissioners, any more comments or questions of the applicant or staff? Since I hear none, we have two members in the audience who have signed up for testimony. If I could ask the applicant to go back to their seats, and if Norman Keanaaina and Robert Freitas, Jr. could please come to the table. KEANAAINA: \[To the audience\] Good morning, everybody. AUDIENCE: Good morning. KEANAAINA: Public hearing, freedom of speech. BEAUDET: One second, one second. If you could both please raise your right hands. KEANAAINA: Here’s my, I have hearing impaired --. BEAUDET: Okay. KEANAAINA: -- so he \[Mr. Freitas\] has to talk to me. BEAUDET: Good. Do you now swear or affirm to tell the truth now before the Leeward Planning Commission? TESTIFIERS: Yes, I do. BEAUDET: Thank you. Please state your name and address in the microphone. KEANAAINA: I’m Kahu Norman Akahai Keanaaina, born here on the island right in Kalaoa, 1940. My address is 73-4303 Hawai‘i Belt Road, Kalaoa Street. The property, or the subject property, is where I grew up on. The property owner is my father, Henry P. Kamaka, and my mother, Emily J. Keanaaina Kamaka. The property is unique; it was given by King Kamehameha, III as a Land Patent. And if anyone here has the knowledge of law in the U.S. Supreme Law, the Patent cannot be changed. That’s the law. I’m here to speak for the family and for the person who purchased the land. The family is not accepting the fact that the land be sold, but yet the Ritchie family purchased the land without the knowledge of the Patent. Now the Patent is national, international, federal, and 9 EXHIBIT A