2016-02-04 Hearing Transcript - Arrow SPP 09-076 & Rodrigues SPP 15-178

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has another lot in Ocean View and another one in Ranchos, and he’s paying about $500 a year for roads maintenance. And, these properties, he’s concerned about because he’s now retired from the Park Service, and his military retirement, he’s doing well as a retired person. He has a coffee farm, 5-acre coffee farm. And, he’s planning what he needs to do for his grandchildren. And, so, he rarely goes up to the site, and maybe he’s been there 3 or 4 times. He doesn’t like the condition of the roads. He doesn’t like that he’s paying for roads that are not paved and haven’t been paved and aren’t maintained. He would rather the roads be either maintained even though he understands that the trucks will probably destroy them because the chipseal doesn’t wear very good with the heavy truck use, but he really is concerned as a paying, productive human being to the County a lot of money in taxes and for roads and basically getting nothing for it. You know, he doesn’t get, nobody acknowledges what he gave to the country as a veteran, you know, so this, this man has a little bit of anger that rational things are not being done, and he doesn’t see rational things being done at the cinder pits. And, he wants to know that there are, and that the roads either he wants the people of the cinder pit to pay for the roads or he doesn’t want to have to pay for roads that aren’t being fixed, or he wants anything else that he can get that seems reasonable as a person that was born and raised on this Island. So, in any event, so he sends me here to find out what’s happening, and I haven’t done a very good job because I tried, and I can’t tell him really what’s going on, and I have good informants in the community, and people in the community who don’t know what’s going on. So, I think it behooves you guys to stretch your limits a little bit. I don’t know if you had consultants who are really knowledgeable soil engineers and geological engineers and people who know about gravel mines and the hazards. If you really looked into the depths of these pits to see what’s really they’re about and what they will mean down the road to us and the community, I’m not sure what you people have done or what the Planning Department has done, but I don’t see any real evidence of significant comprehension of what the best answer would be, but that may be the lack of my own insights. I hope it’s not a lack of yours. Thank you. HEAUKULANI: Thank you, Mr. Roland. And, sir, we’re going to have oral arguments here in just a little while. We invite you to stick around and listen to counsel and parties make their arguments and that might help educate you a little bit about what’s going on down there. Commissioners, any questions for Mr. Roland? Hearing none, thank you, sir. Is there anyone else in the audience that would like to testify on this agenda item or these agenda items? ROLAND: I would like to say one more thing. HEAUKULANI: Go ahead, sir. ROLAND: Another matter is I have a friend who’s in her eighties and quite active living on Aloha Boulevard, and she is really upset about the trucks that come by in the wee hours of the morning before six. And, I don’t know if you considered these routes that are on here and how the distribution of traffic should be made so it’s fair and not imposed on some people way more than others, but the traffic will increase, and it bothers her now, and she— 4 EXHIBIT D