2018-11-07 Hearing Transcript - Kurtistown Assembly of God USE 18-078

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KERN: Good morning. CLARKSON: Good morning, would you, if you haven't been sworn in already, do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter before the Commission today? SHRINSKL I do, sir. [Mr. Kern was previously sworn in for another application.] CLARKSON: Thank you. Please introduce yourself, whichever one of you is going to start and please proceed. KERN: Thank you, Mr. Chair and Members of the Windward Planning Commission. I'm Zendo Kern, planning consultant. Next to me is Damien Shrinski. He's the pastor and the one in charge of the Kurtistown Assembly of God Church. We'll both be speaking. I'll go ahead and start out with a few different things. First of all, we have reviewed the recommendation, and the conditions as well as the amended conditions, and we have no problem with those. One of the things that I think is important to look at is Condition No. 3 on there. What we did is with the concern of a—this is regarding some mitigative measures -we agreed to doing a 50 -foot buffer from the road to the edge of the parking lot or the building. So, the site plan that you saw showed the parking lot being closer to the highway. That would be adjusted so it'd have a minimum of 50 feet from the property line into the property which would be a buffer, push things back, you know, keep it away from the highway. And, obviously the parking lot might be adjusted a little bit to work with that, but essentially the site plan is more or less what you'd be seeing there, pushed back. In relation to the cross easement, we completely agree with State DOT's comment about having that easement close to the highway. The Applicant has no problem with having discussions with them and moving it further back on the property as some connectivity there. It will prevent any queueing on the highway, and so, the Applicant has been more than willing to work with State DOT to figuring those out, and that's what the intent is, to move forward with that. Something else that's interesting, and the Applicant will get more into it, you know, the hours of operation, he wanted to have latitude. It's not that it's going to be open to the public, and I think that's going to be a very important—something to consider here. This isn't open to the public 24, you know all the time, not 24/7, but during the hours of operations. People can't just stop in. It's open when they are offering a service, and we had the hours there so we would have that latitude to see what types of services worked. REPLOGLE: When you say service, do you mean service like dinner or service like church service? KERN: I mean services like that they're offering like job training, tutoring, hot meals, whatever outreach they wanted to offer, that they currently offer those same things. No problem. So, we want that latitude so they could work with what was going to work for the community and the EXHIBIT D 4