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

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in terms of lateral movement along the shoreline. To our knowledge there has not been any restriction on lateral movement in that area. They’ve had signs prepared in the past, and the signs were redone largely because the signs that were initially placed gave the public a misconception in terms of where you can and where is the public access and where is not. So the signs were replaced with the photos that I show you over here, and these photos are the County-approved public access sign, and they are placed at the location where it becomes unmistakable in terms of where the public’s right to traverse laterally along the shoreline, you know. In the area of the public parking, which is Item Number 12, we realize that there are times like, you know, like Lava Lava, you know, when there, because it’s a very successful operation, there have been situations where when they do fundraising whether it’s for the Kona Hospital Foundation or other kind of fundraising, they are going to have large gatherings in that area, and then at those point in time they don’t have enough parking. It’s like any other situation. They’ve met the Zoning Code requirement. We meet our Zoning Code requirement when we construct our single-family dwelling and you put up two cars, and then that’s all the code requires. But how often, how often have we had, you know, we’ve had a situation where you have parties and then no more enough parking stalls, you know, so they park on the street and they park wherever. And then that’s the same situation; you satisfy the minimum requirement for parking, but on the other hand there are going to be situations where additional parking is required. But, so anyway, like one of the things that was causing a lot of heartburn on this parking issue was that having the special events. The Planning Department was rightfully so said that that’s not allowed. And so the applicant as landowner basically told Lava Lava, its tenant, to say you’ve got to stop that, you’ve got to comply with the County’s requirement. So it’s stopped, it’s ceased. That, however, doesn’t take away the fact that sometime the restaurant is going to be busy and you are going to have like the turnover. Just like a golf course, you know, like you have like one, you know, four stall- the stall requirement for a golf course is like four stalls for every hole. But then so that might be enough, but when you have the turnover, the first guys begin tee-off at 7:30 and the next guys come in at 11:30; but what happens if at ten o’clock or 10:30 they come, and you are not going to have enough stalls. It happens at the Hilo Municipal quite often. But what I’ve shown on Page 12 is like the number of stalls in that area, you know, it just shows you, you know, you have like about 65 or 70 stalls in that area, but that property, that property, which is situated immediately mauka of the, you know, the property that you are now being, you know, under consideration right now, is owned by the applicant. They created that parking stall, the parking area. It’s a five-acre site. Now, that five-acre site today, if you look at the last page that I had included, it’s a schematic, it’s a schematic that shows that it can easily be expanded to, up to like about 124 stalls in all of the already improved area so they don’t have to do more grading and all that stuff. But if you look at this, it’s kind of clear that you can have additional parking. And the applicant is willing to have this additional parking to accommodate for this overflow, you know, at time overflow need. So double the amount of parking, and that can be done all by the applicant at his expense. In the area of the trails, you know, I mentioned earlier that there was some destruction. And it was what, the applicant discovered that, and the applicant discovered this how? Because, they don’t visit the entire ten-acre site every day or whatever and neither does the archaeologist go, you know, go visit the site, but what happened was that in the preservation plan, and as recommended by SHPD and the County Cultural Commission, they said that you know what, you guys should as 15 EXHIBIT B