October 22, 2016 FINAL SC Minutes

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rating and the other half, the Open. Now we've agreed, my wife and I to do this after much discussion and constructive input from Ms. Gloor and that reinforces my written communication to the Committee. Time? Okay. There are five other pieces of property organized the way I requested the Committee to do ours. Thank you very much. 2. Michael Johnson, representing Ono Gardens on the agenda item of Hakalau Point: Hi, my name is Michael Johnson and I thank the Committee for their time and their value and considering all the public's points of view on all these topics. Today, I'm talking about Hakalau Point 3 Option 4C to leave blank with no CDP recommendation for these parcels of land. And I've been — have an ongoing survey and petition that says the same thing and we all, 52 of us that have signed this so far, wish for this option, Option 4C, leave it blank, with no CDP recommendation. We've had 24 people from Hakalau, 11 from Hdmdkua Coast, 17 more from around the island. Twenty-four of these people are farmers and more and more farmers and farm -related economically people want to see this land remain industrial because it represents opportunity for the economy, opportunity for the economy for good paying jobs and opportunity for a lot of us farmers to not have to go to Hilo for our services. We can go right to Hakalau. I live in Hakalau myself. Then, breaking it down further, 10 of these people wanted ag food processing and a commercial kitchen. Eight of them wanted to see it just remain industrial for different reasons and 14 of them wanted either an agricultural park or ag tourism, brewery, a restaurant and demo —farm demonstrations, food demonstrations, interpretive demonstrations for Hawaiian plants also. So, this whole thing is gathering a lot of interest in the community and there's a lot of points of view that can all come together to make this land a great opportunity to give our coast here — our Hdmdkua Coast a boost, economically which is what we all really need. Everybody wanted a — good paying jobs. So, I've turned in the petition thus far with 52 names on it and for further review and I'm still just getting started. There's a lot of people that I haven't talked to. It's getting easier and easier to talk to on this topic and get people to sign the petition. Okay. Thank you. 3. John Kaye, representing himself on the agenda item of Hakalau Point: Hi, I've spoken on this issue several times and I did send a written testimony in advance and I hope you have that so I'm not going to dwell on that a lot. I just want to point out what I think is really important in terms of the Steering Committee and why we're all here today and the purpose of the Steering Committee is to make land use recommendations and I believe those recommendations then go to the Planning Department. The Planning Department then reviews them, tests them for legal sufficiency to see if it's — if everything's ok and then, they make their decisions. I don't think that the — that the Steering Committee has the ultimate decision on any land use designation at this point. The other thing that I would like to point out, that is in doing that, my understanding of the CDP has been that we're looking at a very broad, looking at a very general thing, saying what do we want to have the Hdmdkua area look like for the next ten years. We are not being concerned with any particular — particular parcel or property and whether we'd like to see a carnival on that piece of property for the future, whether we'd like to see a restaurant on that property for the future, a park on the property for the future, any particular — particular use because that is a Planning Department function and that is not the Steering Committee's function. And, one of the reasons I think that's true is that's speculative, it's highly speculative as to whether you would end up with an ag center on that piece of property or a park on that Page 13