October 22, 2016 FINAL SC Minutes

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center. Third, the ag center that has been proposed to you by the landowner is speculative at most. It has been speculative on the landowner for many occasions when he has submitted plans for luxury houses on the view — on the shoreline, that was speculative. When he submitted plans for a brewery and a distillery, that is still speculative and its speculative now about this ag center as well. And finally, when Michael who just testified, testified about the third — about all these new warehouses that are going to be built, if you read — if you read what the landowner has even suggested for this, they are containers in many occasions. He says Matson containers. So, in summary, I would just simply — quickly again say look at the CDP, look at the policies, objectives of the CDP, remember in your head where we're talking about and it's not a close call. Thank you. 5. Dong Guo, representing farmers and speaking on agenda item 3, Hakalau Point: For everyone, yeah, thank you. My name is Dong. I working and living in Hakalau around — about 20 years so I know Hakalau, this community. I get friends — plenty friends over there. I know plenty farmers living and working in Hakalau — this place. And I know now, for farmers we need one processing plant for processing our product and then send to Mainland. So, you know when we talking about the soju plant, for sweet potato soju plant in Honolulu, when people from [inaudible] come to Honolulu set up very — very — very small plant. I seen my year, they just processing 30,000 pounds potatoes [inaudible] potatoes [inaudible] thousand dollars. But our processing this soju, even the [inaudible] market just some customer or some traveler come for buy the sales from $30, in Korea its $200,000. Only three — thirty thousand potatoes processed into soju and they send to market and bring back twenty — $200, 000 sales. So, we looking for some chance like that. We need Hakalau — this industrial area, keep industrial zoning and the — set up the soju plant right away. That's what I thinking so we need a building and they get power, water, everything ready —just ready for set up. Okay. Thank you. 6. Steve Shropshire, representing himself, speaking on agenda item 3, Hakalau Point Map: Thank you for the opportunity to testify. First off, I want to say that I empathize with this Committee in terms of being able to sort out all the rhetoric and all the agendas that people bring to these — this process. And, I — I would simply also point to the wall and say that the project we're proposing matches consistently with the third tier of the economic development tier of this plan. What's unique about this property is that it's zoned industrial. One — less than one-tenth of all the land on the island of Hawaii is zoned industrial. Very, very rare commodity. So, it gives us an opportunity to support the goals that have been identified in the economic development plan. There's also goals, Mr. Cain mentioned Objective 4 and 5, 1 think both of those goals talk about —in the five, direct future settlement patterns towards existing developments, creating walkable mixed-use neighborhoods and that's clearly what we're trying to do, bring services back. People talk about the plantation days. What made the plantation days great? The economics of the plantation created jobs. It created a — created a economy and I would simply ask you to think about that and the need for that in terms of what we've already identified. Moving — there's only four things that can happen here. One is that we're able to negotiate a settlement with PONC that's acceptable to me as a landowner. That doesn't look possible or probable at this point. I don't have anything that's tangible in front of me. Number two, the community works together with the developer. We create a shared vision that has elements of the park plan, if it has also economic development objectives. Third, I go it alone. We fi — we Page 113