2016-12-01 Hearing Transcript - Edward Torrison REZ 16-213

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outlined in the Background Report, my client will be occupying approximately one third of the office space. The new building will be a 2 -story office building with approximately 2,520 square feet of office space. The new design will have three offices of approximately 240 square feet each on the ground floor creating about 720 square feet of office space on the ground level. In addition, there will be six parking stalls underneath the building so it'd kind of be, as you can see in the floor plan, offices on one side and then parking stalls underneath it. And, on the second floor we'll have three office spaces of approximately 600 square feet each totaling 1,800 square feet of office space on the second floor. The new design has 11 parking stalls, complies with ADA requirements, and the 11 parking stalls still exceeds the minimum parking requirements per County Code. So, we're trying to maximize the—the amount of parking, minimize the square footage so it still makes sense. In addition to the proposed changes to the building, the new plan calls for a right -turn in and right -turn out on Waianuenue. The reason being is that it will allow emergency access, so basically the original plan was right -turn in off of Kaumana Drive, right -turn out onto Waianuenue. This would just open it up so it would have a right -turn in from Waianuenue in the case of an emergency vehicle ever needing to access that. They wouldn't have to go around the light. They could just come in, and it would, basically it wouldn't create any, any additional traffic flow. The traffic would still flow very smoothly. And, so, according to the Institute for Traffic Engineering Manual that they used to prepare TIAR's or Traffic Impact Analysis Reports, the a.m./p.m. trip generation for this office use is 1.49 trips per 1,000 square feet. Thus, the 2,520 -square foot office building, the projected movements would be 3.75 or less that four movements at any—at peak time a.m./p.m. This is what they use. If anybody has to do a TIAR, this is the basis in which they use it. So. this is the best judgment that I feel that we can make on that. So, as mentioned above, the new design will allow the proposed office building to have a residential look and would basically be not too different than a single-family home if a single- family home were constructed on the property. Being that the property is located in the middle of Kaumana Drive and Waianuenue Avenue, it is not very desirable for a single-family dwelling. This office building will not change the look in the area while utilizing the location to its highest and best use. So, that's the proposed change. There's a, like I say, there's floor plans. There's a new site plan. There's floor plans. There's elevation shots. If you want to take a minute to review that, you know, we can take five if we need to. Otherwise, we really have tried to address the concerns to the best of our ability. We've done basically every effort that we can make. I feel that at the end of the day, that's the best we can do, and then, you know, it's up to you as a body to make that recommendation and that it moves onto the next step. So, I'm happy to hear any questions or any concerns. EXHIBIT D 5