2018-11-07 Hearing Transcript - William Quinn (Pahoa Farm & Garden) SPP 18-199

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starts at the roundabout with a posted speed limit of 20 miles per hour. After leaving the roundabout heading towards the lot, you will hit the Post Office Road and HAAS intersection. It is posted at 35 miles per hour. From the roundabout to the traffic light, it's a one -mile stretch of highway. It is not 45, and it is not 55. The second paragraph, "The Special Permit is being sought to allow the proposed operation to sell various imported projects [sic -products], which the application indicates would promote business viability, otherwise the permit would not be required." Our family does not import items. Everything that comes into the State, seeing how we live on an island, is shipped to us. We do not have containers coming in. We buy our inventory locally. We are not a commercial operation. We're a green industry. Fifty percent of our business is a nursery. All products are bought locally. There is also a letter from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Engineering Division. It's in regards to the water buildup on that highway. Hydroplaning was one of the complaints. There is a sump at the intersection of that cane road that Gilbert had brought up. That sump is located outside of our parcel right at the intersection. That sump has a huge metal pipe running underneath the highway. As it rains heavily, the water comes down the road, hits the sump, goes underneath the highway. That particular sump has to have preventive maintenance done on it. I'm not badmouthing the State or the County. They do a terrific job. However, preventive maintenance on that sump and cleaning that pipe that runs underneath the highway would eliminate a lot of the concerns about hydroplaning. Planning Department Exhibit 6. We had received a letter from a young lady named Candace Walker. On the third paragraph, she says it's a single entrance/exit driveway connecting directly to Highway 130. It is not a single entrance. Department of Transportation, before we purchased the property, expressed to me that we needed 22 feet entrance with sides going in. The permitted access the Department of Transportation gave to this particular parcel is 30 feet, 1 inch. Also Ms. Walker mentioned a perfect example of the daily hazard motorist encounter every morning and afternoon as where Post Office Road intersects with Highway 130. That is 1,800 feet away from our lot. That is her concern, another hazard the driveway would be located as water run- off I just expressed to you about the sump and the pipe having to have preventive maintenance. She wrote this causes motorists to hydroplane. I have not experienced that. I've lived in the neighborhood for 25 years. On the third paragraph, she writes, "the county links Highway 130 to Old Pahoa Road which is also the access for the HOPE Services lava evacuees temporary shelters." That was also the road that Gilbert had pointed out. That road is clear now, but there is a gate which prevents you—the people from HOPE Services have to enter their little buildings from Jan's Barber Shop side. Off the Highway 130, the road is closed. Entry to HOPE Services is from Jan's Barber Shop. There was also another letter of opposition from a gentleman by the name of James Weatherford. On the third paragraph, "The driveway to this parcel is located on a hill and curve with limited line of sight, a few hundred feet from the intersection of State Route 130..." There is a traffic light that controls the flow of traffic by Pahoa High School with left turns. If it's a big issue, we would love to have it so we could right turn into the lot, right turn out, which would avoid the far EXHIBIT E 8