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My wife, Cheryl, passed away in December of 2014 from stomach cancer. It was just two
<br />months to prepare. After the hospital bills and Hospice bills were paid, I used that portion of the
<br />insurance money that was leftover to pay down some of my mortgage and then the balance was
<br />used to buy this property as an investment. The original plan was to build a home to sell or to
<br />rent it out for a long-term cash flow. The idea is to create investment property for cash flow.
<br />I decided that a quicker way to generate that was to sell the lot and put it on the market and use
<br />the money from the sales as a down payment to buy an existing home in Hilo and rent that out.
<br />So, I put it on the market this January, this past January to test the waters. After six months of no
<br />activity on the market, I withdrew the listing and wanted to re-evaluate the use of that property
<br />and decided that the highest and best use due to its unique location would be commercial and to
<br />build a professional office building which could provide long-term cash flow from the lease
<br />income.
<br />When asked around who could be a good planner to help me, Zendo's name was brought up and
<br />so I had been working with him since July, and as a result of that meeting, we're sitting before
<br />you today with my proposal for your consideration. Thank you.
<br />KERN: Thank you, Mr. Torrison. Yeah, you know, so when we looked at it, it's always a
<br />challenging one as I said before. I've sat on the other side of the desk and any time something
<br />comes up, does this, does this make sense? So, I always approach it from that standpoint as a
<br />commissioner, as a former Council member. How do I feel about it? And, we looked at it, and,
<br />you know, while it's in a residential area, to me, it did make sense because it sticks out on that
<br />point, and it has those two roads going by it, and it would be far more suited for an office space, I
<br />feel. And, it also, like I said before, it creates that buffer to the other homes, and kind of isolates
<br />that corner. I don't think we would be sitting here if this were inside the residential subdivision
<br />`cause that really just wouldn't make sense. You know, this is on the fringe, so it met the criteria
<br />as far as density goes, as far as all the Planning stuff is concerned, County Code requirements,
<br />you know, water, sewer. Everything's there for it to happen which isn't always the case. You
<br />know, sometimes you'll find a beautiful property. It looks really good. But, you can't get water.
<br />You can't get, you know, you can't get sewer. There's issues. So, this one had, met all that
<br />criteria so it seemed like a good project to move forward with.
<br />You know, as the project has gone on, you know, the original application, the building was larger
<br />and what not, so as we talked about it and hearing the concerns of the property owners, we've
<br />kind of been, you know, kind of bringing it down to a different level. Thus, the submittal I
<br />submitted this morning has a letter, basically a narrative of what the new proposed building
<br />would look like as well as floor plans and elevations.
<br />So, in essence, the new, you know, I'll just read the letter. After careful consideration of the
<br />concerns of the surrounding property owners and working to minimize any impact to the
<br />neighborhood, my client, Mr. Torrison, would like to make the following changes to his office
<br />building. The new design is much smaller and still keeps a residential look and feel to it.
<br />Having less office space will create less possible traffic. As well, there will be fewer tenants. As
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