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

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road, as the first individual was talking about, is simply not suitable for large trucks; it’s very dangerous. I’m also a former law enforcement officer; I wouldn’t want to be having large trucks on that road. Thank you. UNGER: Thank you. BECKHAM: My name is Brad Beckham. I’ve had careers in architect, and I know your job is difficult, try to merge business interest with residential ones. Having done work in probably close to 80 cities, numerous counties, most of which have noise ordinances you can, if you choose, require testing. A typical ordinance is like an 80 decibel readings at the property line, that sort of thing. And you can do dust testing as well of the air, preferably on a windy day where it might carry of the sand. And as far as the noise, you might consider dropping at the maximum height of the frontend loaders into the steel beds of the trucks, and actually getting hardline data. It feels to me everybody’s idea of dust or noise is subjective. I feel that, you know, living a half mile away I do feel tremors and it’s really loud, but my opinion might defer with somebody else’s, especially who has a business interest. So my recommendation for you would be get some realign testing and follow existing laws, and that might help you make your decisions. I have to apologize I’m late for a doctor appointment, so I’ve got to bail right now. UNGER: Thank you. MATSUKAWA: My name is Mike Matsukawa. I’m an attorney. I represent the petitioners for the contested case. And I forgot to sign up Jeff Citron who is the president, and he submitted his sign-up sheets. UNGER: I got that and so — MATSUKAWA: Okay. UNGER: — he’ll have an opportunity to testify. MATSUKAWA: Thank you. I just want to point out a couple, a few things for the Commission and its staff. It seems like the application and the background report was put together pretty hurriedly. Some things that stand out is there seems to be one application for the drainage improvements, which in itself is its own project and ought to be treated as a standalone project; however, cobbled to this are the additional request, which make this application somewhat confusing. Secondly, there are some preliminary issues that should be explored but weren’t, which is whether a Board of Land and Natural Resources Mining Permit is required under Chapter 181. As to the noise and air emission issues, which the prior speaker just addressed, I don’t think there has been any analysis on air emission or noise. Both subjects are very complicated topics. When the Hawai‘i Electric Light Company built their Keāhole power plant, they did extensive studies on both noise and air emissions because of the surrounding neighborhood that’s Palisades and the Ag Park. They did the study, and also on the issue of noise the judge who were supervising the case determined that where and how you measure the noise is a very intricate 5 EXHIBIT D