2017-04-06 Hearing Transcript - Jan Valdez USE 17-066

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I find it disturbing and very dishonest to not admit that the present operation is already without a legal permit. I resent that our neighbor is being less than straightforward with us and now she wants to expand it further. I am extremely concerned that this will further change our neighborhood in an acceptable [sic] way. Increasing the risk to the children that play in our neighborhood. To generally even walking there as many do for exercise, mothers walk around the cul-de-sac with the babies on strollers. Now, this proposed B&B wants another four or more cars to come and go which is unacceptable. We cannot allow more traffic to any further disturbance of a peaceful life and we peaceful life we deserve and enjoy in our neighborhood. We don't wish to become a resort type destination. Less and less a quiet residential, kid friendly one especially by an owner who isn't even going to live there. That is a different type of neighborhood that we have now. This is unacceptable. If Mrs. Valdez wants to set up a B&B breakfast [sic] for financial gain, please set it up elsewhere. We need our peace and quiet. I wish to conclude by saying to Mrs. Valdez another bed and breakfast business is not welcome in our quiet, happy neighborhood. Please respect that. To the County board, I implore you. Please deny Mrs. Valdez's application for the bed and breakfast. HENKEL: Thank you, Ms. Gutteling. GUTTELING: Thank you. HENKEL: Mr. Duerr, would you state your name and where you reside? DUERR: Yeah, my name is Robert Duerr. I want to thank you for allowing me to speak, and no insult to Ms. Valdez or to Mr. Stephenson. I feel that the proposed B&B is detrimental to the neighborhood. I've lived in the—I've submitted written testimony, and I've lived there since, two houses down, since 1985. The neighborhood's cul-de-sac, the narrowest part of the street is 17 feet wide, and it's also a dangerous entrance and exit to the highway. My concerns are section, in section 25-4-7, bed and breakfast establishments, section b(1), the principal use as a residence by its operator. I have trouble understanding who the operator is because Ms. Valdez in her—in her notices to the neighborhood wrote from a LLC address in Honolulu although the property zoned in the trust and Ms. Valdez here was speaking as a, as a person. So, who is the operator? I have problems with the, with the actions of the property. The property was bought and then was immediately, well, evidently within two months put up for sale. It then became an illegal B&B operation in 2016 and then the—the whole action seemed that basically the property was EXHIBIT A 10