2018-01-18 Leeward Exh A (AMEND SMA 03-000007)

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UNGER: Wonderful. Proceed with your testimony. WILLEFORD: Thank you. I’m a retired teacher. We’ve been proceeding to curtail development, particularly on Ali‘i Drive. As you all must know, we just, we were able to stop a development at Kahalu‘u, because of many reasons but the improper marking of iwi and artifacts. There is another development up off of Queen Kalama that is questionable; it has been bulldozed but, grubbed and graded right now as we speak, and we don’t even, and there’s only two places marked for artifacts. I don’t know what has been done at this property. But many of us would like to see a moratorium on building on Ali‘i Drive. We don’t have evacuation, and infrastructure is not proper. We have sewage problems. We have water problems on our whole island. There is another area, I forget, it was Turkey or somewhere, that they ran out of water. We cannot neglect, we cannot bring in masses of people to the island. Look at the other islands; Maui, O‘ahu, Kaua‘i, they are all struggling with overpopulation, overdevelopment, they can’t even get anywhere on any of the roads. Let us not let that happen to our last stronghold. This is the last island. Let us become a sustainable island. Fix what we have to fix. Protect what we have left. And stop this insanity. There is a new proposal, many of you may have seen, that if you put, any from, anyone from another country in the world puts up 500,000 dollars, I believe, they can get a free Green Card as long as they make an investment on our property. So are we going to let that happen here? Are we going to let this overdevelopment happen? What do we have left for our children? Let’s just stop it and look at it realistically. Stop passing out permits like they are candy, and really take a look at our community and what we need to do here for the people and for the future. Thank you very much. UNGER: Thank you. Ma’am? KNISS: Good morning. UNGER: Good morning. Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth before the Planning Commission? KNISS: I do. UNGER: Please – please speak into your mike – please state your name and area or residence. KNISS: I do. Sue Kniss. I live right next door to this property. UNGER: Thank you. KNISS: Mm-hmm. I’ll tell you my concerns. Fire Department, has that been checked out? Have they come down and saw that they could get in there and out of there easily? Access in and out with cars. The driveway has a 16-foot easement, as you know, but there is only twelve feet wide to drive in and out. Just yesterday my husband and I were up there making sure it was just twelve feet wide, and there was a car as always, almost daily, more than once a day, going into Internationale, all the time, you guys, I mean all the time. So there is somebody just park there thinking that’s their parking lot, which we haven’t complained about. That’s, that’s life, you know. But now you’ve got four condos, which could easily be eight parking lots, parking 5 EXHIBIT A