2017-02-01 Hearing Transcript - County Council Initiated Bill 256

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HENKEL: Oh wow. Okay, please state your name and where you reside, sir. SONOGNINL Yes, I will. My name is Rufus Sonognini, and I'm representing my neighborhood on West Kahaopea about this bed and breakfast and vacation rental that has been running business for the last 4-1/2 years without a license or a permit, without a license for a bed & breakfast. But long story short, I'm representing them because of what she does to us. I'd like to show you folks these pictures how she parks her vehicles, and the vacation rental there. LSecretary's Note: Mr. Sonognini's photos were circulated among the Commissioners.] HENKEL: Yeah, if you could, we'll pass them from here. SONOGNINL And I have a proposal. I want you folks— HATA-FINLEY: Microphone, please. SONOGNINL I want you folks to know that we have a one -lane road, and she's blocking our one -lane road and our driveways HO: Please speak into the microphone. Thank you. SONOGNINL And, our driveways. A one -lane road and our driveways. We have been trying to be so nice to her to help her to understand that what she is doing is not right for our neighborhood. We've been there over 50-60 years, and she has come in and just been viciously rude to us, and does everything to harass us in our, in the process of parking. We are disgusted with it. We had enough of this problem with her for the last four years, and we want something done about these bed & breakfasts. I'm not saying all bed & breakfast is like that. I've lived in Kailua and Lanikai for 19-20 years. Never had a problem with vacation rentals. Never. I move here, and I get this vacation rental fromI'm not criticizing people from the mainland that open up vacation rentals, but please have some respect for our neighbors and our neighborhood that has been there for 50-60 years. It's a one -lane road, and she parks her vacation rental cars, or her cars, right on the edge of the road where the people that live there have to go on the side of the road where it's all mud and rocks to get around her cars because we can't get through. I mean, something has to be done about this because enough is enough. I mean, like I said, have some respect for our neighbors. Why is she so mean and so cruel to us? We just don't understand. And, that's all we have to say is that please do something about these bed & breakfast people that—and another thing I wanted to ask her was when she says they have to have parking for vehicles that rent their places, is it on city roads? Or is it in private property? HENKEL: That's been answered. It needs to be off-street, the parking. SONOGNINL I don't understand that. HENKEL: Off, off the road, on private property. EXHIBIT B 7