2017-11-02 Hearing Transcript - Celestial Sanctum 501(C)3 SPP 17-192

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The State Land Use designation for the subject property is Agricultural as indicated in green. And, pardon me, that should say County LUPAG designation is Extensive Agriculture indicated in white. Here's an aerial photograph, again, of that intersection with the highway. Here's Hawaii Belt Road or Volcano Road, Highway 11. And, again, you've got the intersection coming through this Parcel 22 and then hooking back up to the straightaway, Luna Ikena Road. The subject parcel is approximately 1.3 miles from the intersection at the highway. Here are two aerial photographs of the subject parcel and permit area. On the left here, we've got the entire 25 -acre parcel with the permit area roughly outlined with this dashed yellow line. On the right side, we zoom that in showing the subject permit area, the existing single-family dwelling, and existing greenhouse, driveway access, as well as a catchment tank. The area where they're proposing to have the, the detached bedrooms and gazebo is roughly here toward the back end of the house, and I'll move on here to the Applicant's submitted site plan. Again, on the left, we've got the entire property, 25 -acre property, and just this area in here is going to be set aside as that permit area. It's showing here the existing dwelling, the proposed six detached bedrooms and gazebo, the yoga pavilion area here, and just zoomed in here on the right hand side shows it a little bit closer. Here are some site photographs of the permit area, pardon me. On the top of left, we've got a view of the existing dwelling. The bottom area here is where they're proposing to expand and adding the additional bedrooms within the dwelling. It's difficult to see, but back here, is where you have the existing greenhouse. And, roughly, in this back area is where they're planning to have the detached bedrooms. Here's a view of the area for the detached bedrooms at the edge of that greenhouse in the back, and so, it's toward this side of the property, and a view of the driveway from Luna Ikena Road with the subject dwelling on the right hand side. Here is a street -level view of that intersection with Luna Ikena Road showing where it comes off of Highway 11, and here is some views of the existing road condition, widths and condition of the graveled area going up and down that road. The Planning Director is recommending approval of the Special Permit request with conditions. We received a few additional pieces of correspondence from when you received the Background and Recommendation Report. First and foremost, we got a comment letter from State Department of Transportation outlining what improvements would need to be made at that intersection with Highway 11. We received a letter of support from Victoria and Mike Tanaka, as well as a letter from Zendo Kern, who is the Applicant's representative, indicating that they've read the Recommendation and Background Report, and they're aware of the conditions outlined and—and, in subsequent conversation, they are amenable to them and they can speak to that as well when they come up. EXHIBIT A 3