2018-01-18 Leeward Exh B (AMEND SMA 412, REZ 17-225 & SMA 17-068))

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PLUNKETT: My name is John Plunkett. I’m from Santa Barbara, California, and I am an owner’s rep/consultant to Waikoloa. Most of our presentation will be made by Mr. Fuke to my right. UNGER: Thank you. FUKE: Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Members of the Commission. My name is Sidney Fuke. I’m a planning consultant, and I’ve been retained to assist with the preparation and processing of the applications before you. HEAD: Good morning. My name is Scott Head. I live in Kamuela, Hawai‘i. And I’m a representative for Waikoloa BC, LLC. UNGER: Thank you. FUKE: I wanted to add that I live in Kaūmana, Hilo. Sorry I didn’t put that in. I think that, you know, the staff report is very comprehensive, I mean, you know, you just look at it, you had like about over, I guess with all of the additional testimonies, well in excess of like 700 sheets, and it’s difficult to go through all 700 sheets, so we can understand why even for the staff it took a while before they could, you know, generate the report for you and having all that information and the questions that will probably come up today that, you know, they recommend that you take a site visit and during the interim, you know, spend some time, your precious time, to review all of the material that has been presented to you. The applicant has been in this process for nearly three years. And I think that as, you know, the staff had mentioned, the initial application was filed back in 2000 and, you know, September 2015, but it didn’t start then; it started way before then because they had to look at a lot of the information that needed to be generated before they came forth with something. So what I would like to do is like I passed out, you know, that small little maybe half-an-inch type of binder, you know, I kind of like want to walk you through that because it will give hopefully the Commission with some sense of understanding of like what the thought process was on the part of the applicant. And during the course of going through that, I think that some of the questions that the Planning Director has raised, I think may be directly or indirectly addressed. So, and I also hope that, you know, the, at the next, you know, I know because you have a lot of people who are going to testify, so we’d like, you know, hopefully an opportunity to address these additional concerns that may come up that, you know, which we don’t initially say now, or find now, at the subsequent meetings. So in the handout that I, you know, they are kind of like numerical right now, so I wanted to basically, you know, in the exhibits, kind of share with the Commission like what was the planning process. Initially you have to look at like, you know, is the infrastructure adequate, you know, primarily, is there water? The answer to the question was yes. What about your wastewater system? Yes, there is, because it’s all, you know, it’s all wastewater, a private sewer system in that area, so that’s how it’s going to all be hooked up. They also look at, look at the 10 EXHIBIT B