2017-08-17 Leeward Exh A (AMEND SPP 1247)

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know if the CDP was changed because the CDP hasn’t been updated yet, so that’s the confusion that I have. But currently what we have is the question of all the oil and the, whatever drippings from the cars that they store. We haven’t seen any replies as to the quality of the soil in an Important Agricultural Land subdivision. Waimea is uniquely a farming country and it should be noted that way as well. So it’s important, not like Lalamilo they allowed non-farming into the IAL, I mean, compared to Kona you have rocks, you have stone. Waimea you have access, you have roads, you have water, you have all the things that their testimony says that they enjoy is what farming, the Important Ag Lands are. What I also wanted to hit on was the traffic. When they originally got their permit, the traffic in 2004 is nowhere as how it is today. It’s closer to the traffic I got stuck in in Kona where the traffic actually stop. So there is a concern from especially the elders because they’ve got to go doctor, they’ve got to go store and their activities. And we found out on our trip that we did yesterday; you actually got to wait for the traffic to pass on Māmalahoa. One of the things that is being asked of the CDP is alternative routes. This place has roads that go and end at the end of the road, doesn’t connect, there is no alternative. There was a plan for a bypass and that’s not going anywheres. There is a plan for making another lane; that’s not going anywheres. We are requesting a traffic circulation study way back from 2011 is where I remember, and it has never happened. The same traffic study we are asking for in front of Long’s Drugs in town because the traffic coming from Hāmākua would normally go down to the harbor or people who got to go work at the hotels. So all of the traffic coming to town passing this place that we are talking about, and it impacts everything in Waimea. There is no alternative roads for that. There is also the need for lighting on the streets because people have seen cars parking on the side of the streets. So it doesn’t always look like how the pictures she showed. And I wanted to make sure that you folks know that the pictures you saw is not exactly what’s happening, okay? There’s no pictures of the Māmalahoa Highway. HALL: One minute, ma’am. TANIMOTO: Oh, okay, I can stop there. So my thing is I would ask that the Planning Director \[sic\] not approve this, and go into maybe another extension, if you must, but these people need to move; they don’t belong on the IAL lands and we want to keep it that way. Thank you. UNGER: Great. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public who wish to testify at this point? Do the applicants have anything further to say or respond or? You are okay? TRIANTOS \[in audience\]: Nothing, yes. UNGER: Okay, very good. I need a motion from the Commissioners to close public testimony. NOBRIGA: I so move. CARR SMITH: I was wondering if we could just talk about one more thing briefly — 9 EXHIBIT A