2018-01-04 Hearing Transcript - Celestial Sanctum SPP 17-192

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CLARKSON: We have two parties wishing to testify, Derek Awong, Jr. and Derek Awong, Sr. Would you both come up, please? Could you raise your right hands? Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth in this matter before the Commission? AWONG (SR.): I do. AWONG (JR.): I do. CLARKSON: Either one may proceed. AWONG (JR.): Good morning. Just to be clear, I'm a hundred percent against the Special Permit being approved for this property. I think the Special Permit should be set up for special circumstances, say if Mr. Cabados was a farmer up there, and he had a hard time with his farm, and he needed to rent rooms out to make that work. Those types of things I would be a hundred percent okay with. If the thing they were running was a retreat center for youth, for underprivileged youth, I would be okay for. Right now, what I see it as is just a bed & breakfast up our street. When we went to the meeting with Zendo, he asked what we would be okay with, and I told him I would be okay with how it's running right now. Because as it runs right now, there's already been incidents with people driving onto other residents' properties and issues with the road. I didn't know what they were running now. I didn't know what they had approval for so my back and forth through Planning, I found out that they are allowed five guests there now, and they're allowed to serve breakfast through that transient accommodations. So, if they kept it at that, what the County allows now, then that would be fine. I don't, I rather it not be approved that they're allowed twice as many guests coming up and down the road. The road keeps getting brought up. The road as it sits right now is fine for what it's meant to be used for. It's an agricultural road. Everyone goes up and down. We go up and down it, trucks, trailers, excavator, tractor—no issues with the road. If the road widens, if it widens at the bottom—right now, when you drive pass it on the highway, you would never know what's up there. There's an old farm house there that's decayed. No one comes up our road. If there's a streetlight and the road is widened, smoothened out, it's like a beacon for people to turn up our road. Oh, what's up here? We live up there because we wanted it to be quiet. We wanted to live in an agricultural community. So, for that purpose, I would push that it's not approved, and they just be allowed to run as the County permits now. AWONG (SR.): Good morning, all. You've—everybody has my letter. I did want to make a part of my letter clear, and I'm pretty sure Zendo didn't hear it either, but Mr. Cabados while all this heated discussions were going on, just because I sat this close to him or a little farther, right under his breath, and I wrote it here, it says he made the comment to everybody, "Why don't you all just sell your lots and move out." Nobody heard it `cause everybody was going at it in their own discussions. So, that is when I left the meeting knowing this thing wasn't moving any EXHIBIT C 10