2017-04-10 Leeward Exh A (REZ 17-217)

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UNGER: Would the applicant come forward, please? IN: Mr. Chairman — UNGER: Please, excuse me, please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth before the Planning Commission? IN: I do. UNGER: Please state your name and your area of residence. IN: My name is — UNGER: Please use the mike — IN: Thank you. UNGER: — it’s not only so we can hear but also for minutes. IN: Is this on? Yes — UNGER: You are on. IN: My name is Dr. Peter In. My residence is 66-1279 Ahuli Circle, Kamuela, Hawai‘i. I’ve been a resident of the island for, and practicing here in the community, for over 40 years. Just recently retired. And thank you, Mr. Unger, Director Yee, Commissioners, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for the opportunity to present my application for rezoning. Unfortunately, Mr. Fuke, my planning consultant, was unable to be here today. He is much more experienced in these matters than I am. But to give you some background history, I purchased this former Parker Ranch property back in 2000 with the Inabas. We both couldn’t afford such a wonderful piece of property, but our realtor proposed that we apply for a CPR and that’s what we did. And because of the CPR we were able to do, purchase this property and build on it. Cloud 9 Farm was conceived as my part of the property, the three acres, was built as an equestrian center, and we built a, the original dwelling was a caretaker’s cottage. It’s a two-bedroom cottage with an adjoining garage, carport, and a three-stall barn, a very small office and some stalls, a half-acre riding arena. And it functioned as an equestrian center putting on gymkhanas, horseshows for the community for about five years. And then my spouse decided she wanted to go back to the mainland, not mainland but to England, and since that time it’s been just used as pasture, grazing; we’ve had some horses there. As I face retirement, I decided that I really wanted to live on the farm and develop that as agriculture and do sustainable agriculture that’s the new movement. I’ve always wanted to live off the land and to develop a property for a sustainable agriculture. But the problem is as a CPR neither of us are able to develop the property any further. Well, since the application for rezoning the Inabas have put the house, their house, their part of the CPR on the market, they’ve moved to South Korea and, you know, they intend to sell their share of the property. And, so to my knowledge they have no objection to the restrictions on the property. 5 EXHIBIT A