2017-10-05 Hearing Transcript - Hawaii Johns SPP 09-082

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want to come back in 2022 for more time, they'd have to come back to the Planning Commission. That's my presentation. I'm happy to answer any questions that the Commission may have. HENKEL: Any questions of staff from the Commission? Thank you. KAY: Thank you. HENKEL: Then will, will the representative and/or the Applicant please come forward? KERN: Good morning. HENKEL: Good morning. Will you raise your right hands? Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter before the Planning Commission? KERN/CUMMINGS: Yes. HENKEL: All right. Thank you. State your name and proceed. KERN: Good morning, Mr. Chair. I'm Zendo Kern. I'm the planning consultant. To my right here is John Cummings, the Applicant. Good morning, Mr. Chair, Members of the Planning Commission, Mr. Director, Corporation Counsel, and all the wonderful staff on the Planning Department. There's a Iota lot of hard work here. This is a bit of aobviously a bit of a tricky one. You're probably going to ask me if we reviewed the Recommendation and conditions, which we have reviewed the Recommendation and conditions. At this point, we're not comfortable with accepting them as they are. For the most part, the conditions themselves are fine except for the timeframe of it. We realize that the request came in to allow the operation to happen indefinitely. We're open to a conversation of, of what that would do or potentially a longer timeframe. This is a tricky situation obviously because of the nature of the land. If the land wasn't considered prime, it'd probably be a much different conversation we have here. I had the opportunity to sit on the Planning Commission during this original application and saw the process what happened there, what it went through. I think something that is extremely important that I'd like everybody to consider is what this does. So, this is on prime ag land, right? And, we want to preserve prime ag land. And, so, with this operation, what we have is, we have four acres. Part of it is in pasture, so it's being used as agricultural. It's being used ag. We have a home that the family lives in. The family lives there, and they operate out of a portion of it as the office for their business. The Applicant does not advertise on the site. There's no signs. As Christian had mentioned, they drove past it. The Applicant does not have customers coming over. It's not a place where it's like, you know, commercial operations where customers are coming over. They deal with the customers out in the field or by the phone. So, traffic is pretty much none. It's just what they do. EXHIBIT A 4