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MURRAY: Aloha. My name is Thomas Murray. I’m a retired, I reside in Kealakekua, mauka,
<br />I’m a retired carpenter, and I just wanted to say from my past growing up in Hawai‘i, 1955 came
<br />over from O‘ahu, but the construction industry has supported myself and my family with benefits
<br />and decent wages where I can live over here, you know, I can afford to live here. So I am going to
<br />ask for support for this project because a lot of the work that I had was all out in this area,
<br />Waikoloa Land Development, hotels, condominiums, kept me employed for 30 years. So, and I
<br />utilize the access to these facilities, I’ve been out to eat, enjoy the beach and whatnot. I was
<br />denied access to Waikoloa when I, beach, ‘Anaeho‘omalu Bay, when Boise Cascade first
<br />developed the road down there, I drove down and then they told me to turn around and go back, it
<br />was a private property. The resorts have opened up access to the general public and I appreciate
<br />that. So I just ask for your support and granting the amendments for quality construction. Usually
<br />these projects have all been nice quality construction out there in that area. Thank you.
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<br />UNGER: Mahalo.
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<br />WILLS: Aloha. My name is Mary Wills. I live in Waikoloa. I strongly recommend that the
<br />Leeward Planning Commission deny the request to amend SMA 412, and here are my concerns. I
<br />have concerns, and I paid a lot of attention to what was claimed by the developers. There is no
<br />disability access – oh, please put up the screen. If you are handicapped and you want to get to the
<br />beach now, there is the public parking, there is the small cul-de-sac for two disabled parking stalls,
<br />and then you have to go down a steep ramp to get to the beach. I don’t see a handicapped
<br />wheelchair, wheelchair, the ones with the big balloon wheels, so as the population in Hawai‘i is
<br />getting older, there is no accommodations for people who have handicapped.
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<br />The other main concern I have is for parking. In the initial plan before the pool was moved and
<br />four units were taken away, there were 55 stalls. That’s for people. Where do the employees
<br />park? Who is going to be staffing the administration and all of the other populous that they need
<br />just to run the resort? There is no parking for them; they will park in the land adjacent. Each time
<br />more people park in the land adjacent, older people like me who would like to walk to the beach
<br />have a longer trek to go. And I’m physically able, I don’t mind, I walk. My other concerns are
<br />the proposed expansion cannot survive without the Lava Lava Beach Club to point one. Look at
<br />where they have their loading dock; the loading dock is available on the Lava Lava Beach Club
<br />driveway and then there is the loading and support. The way they have their café, who is going to
<br />go to that café? More than just the people who live there unless we the regular people will be
<br />denied. There is no place for them to park. So the claims that we have adequate parking is not
<br />true. There is no substantial, the numbers that are for parking stalls in Lava Lava and for this
<br />proposed resort plus their employees, you are in the adjacent parking lot in the land next door. It’s
<br />owned by the same people. What is to say that they would deny that parking lot? Oh, we will
<br />further expand, but that’s okay, we will give 44 parking stalls somewhere. So that’s my concern
<br />about parking.
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<br />The other words that are used in this development are wet bars in each of these units. Is that just a
<br />side step? So when you have the wet bar, we would like to further amend that all these units that
<br />have wet bars be allowed to have full kitchens, therefore they will be permanent residence, and
<br />blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Is it just another side step using that kind of language to allow more
<br />expansion and instead of having wet bars, full kitchen? Again, what can our resources provide?
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