October 22, 2016 FINAL SC Minutes

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a problem with that. I don't have that point of view and all those again, in Hokolou don't hove that point of view. So, 1'11 just leave you with that. 3. Michael Johnson, representing Ono Gardens, speaking to the agenda item of Hakalau Point: Thank you for this opportunity. What we have is an opportunity here to develop a part of the Hdmdkua coast. Hakalau has always been in industry. When it was Hawaiian, it was industry. When it was sugar cane, it was industry since 1876 and once — currently, it's industry. It's processing food that comes off the land in the Hakalau area in the warehouses there. This is a farming community. It needs support. It needs zoning support so necessary permits can be made to revitalize Hakalau so the farmers can have an opportunity to thrive and that is the best way to ward off uncontrolled development. It seems like there is a problem with development versus no development in this area and we need smart development encouraged by your vote to have the industrial. It was said earlier that the CDP Committee should just not consider specifics about what is being — this land is being used for when I've looked at slides showing the possible uses of industry in — on this land. And then, it was said in the future that we want this specific uses next to residential. So, it has been brought up, specific uses for this land. Valerie had spoken earlier and pointed out that the Hakalau gym was being looked at and proposed for some of these uses when the gym, I found out, is condemned, would take large amounts of money to tear it down and remake it. So, we have an opportunity here. We have a — somebody with some money to put up — to build warehouses out to the way they need to be and build more warehouses if we need them to process the food that is coming out of the fields in this area. The County isn't gonna do this. There is no one else that's gonna step up and do this anywhere else in this area. This is the place and this is the time to do this. So, I — I would hope for your vote to keep it industrial so we can move forward immediately with these projects. Thank you. 4. John Kaye, representing himself, speaking on the agenda item of Hakalau Point: Ok, I think the — the question of what to designate Hakalau Point is not really as difficult as I think as people are making it. If you'd all just sort of — you know where it is, you know what it looks like — if you don't, you need to go out and look at it. You go down and you go past the post office and you keep driving and then finally you come —before you go down to the beach, you found —you — you look at Hakalau Point. It's right on the ocean and you ask yourself, what should this be designated under the CDP concept? And then, you look at this wall up here and your answer is already there. Look at the objectives. As I wrote in the written testimony a couple of days ago, the written — the CDP already says to you that the most important aspect of the CDP are the Objectives and you look at Objective number 1: Protect sweeping views and open spaces while assuring responsible public access for recreational, spiritual, cultural and sustenance practices. Number 2: Protect and enhance viewscapes and open spaces that exemplify Hdmdkua's rural character. Objective 4: Protect and nurture Hdmdkua's social and cultural diversity, heritage assets including sacred places, historic sites and buildings and distinctive plantation towns. Now, I'm gonna take — you go to the General Plan and you get the same thing. You go to the coastal —just read the stuff, I'm not making up the [inaudible] stuff in written testimony, it's there. The second thing I want to say is that yes, Valerie Poindexter is working on setting up an ag center but this is irrelevant for our purposes today, but she is and what she's doing is she's going to Wailea and she's looking for the help and support so that the County will run an ag Page 112