2016-05-19 Leeward Exh D (SPP 16-188)

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traveling north and south on Queen K. into and out of the uncontrolled – because there are no stop lights there – intersection at Queen K. and Hualālai Road, the requested hours of operation of 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. would find trucks leaving the proposed site at the peak morning rush hour and returning up to the site at the peak of the evening rush-hour traffic, returning to the site in the southbound direction would find no less than four-axle vehicles possibly queuing up in the southbound left-hand turn lane during the rush-hour traffic. A protected left-hand turn lane that is nowhere near adequate for the number of vehicles that could be traveling in there, and you can imagine what that would do to the flow of the traffic going south. Applicant was ordered to cease operations on the subject parcel based on an investigation by the Planning Department, and such operations were to be halted until the applicant was able to receive a special use permit for the non-compliant use of the subject property. I’m here today representing the 1,184 residents of Pualani Estates at Kona who feel now is not the time to approve a special use permit for the subject property. To the contrary, the applicant has in fact continued to use the subject property despite the County’s injunction. As planning, as recently as last week, loaded trucks were seen coming and going from the subject property to work sites. I think you have pictures of those trucks; they were given to you. This egregious disregard for the order by the County should not and cannot be rewarded by an approval for the special use permit at this time. One last comment: Given the continuance, and it was more than custom in our City of Santa Cruz with a project of this type, we encouraged applicants at our meetings to go out and talk to the affected neighborhoods. Now, I know we are beyond, we’re beyond the noticed area, but as others have testified, the noise, the pollution, the trucks, the traffic should extend far beyond the immediate notice area. None of us received any notice. None of us have had any conversations with Bolton, Inc. I as the president of Pualani Estates have heard nothing. And I would recommend to the Planning Commission that this continuance provide also for Bolton the opportunity to reach out to the community, and would ask the Planning Commission to strongly recommend this to the applicant that they set up a series of meetings with our community and explain to us just what they are proposing to do, how they plan to mitigate those things that we are all feeling and seeing, and clear things up with us. But there has been absolutely no communication with this applicant, as I really strongly feel there should be. UNGER: Thank you. HEIMGARTNER: Good morning again. My name is Hermann Heimgartner. I’m here as an individual. I own a house in Pualani Estates. I live on the north side of the subdivision bordering the Agricultural land. And I live with my wife and we have two kids, six and four. And I oppose the project. What I’m concerned about mostly is the noise, and there is the dust, there is the traffic impact. But the noise, as I’ve heard it before, there is the backhoes and other dump trucks, if some things go backwards, and they beep, beep. And if this application is allowed, I can only imagine it will get worse; there is going to be excavating, power driving, the rocks are going to have to be pushed around and jackhammered out. And most days my kids go to school and I go to my office, but there are lots of days where my kids are sick, I have a home office, they are on vacation, I’m at home. And I’m worried that when I’m at home during the week, they are going to be basically exposed to a constant noise. We don’t want that, we don’t 13 EXHIBIT D