2019-03-07 Hearing Transcript - William Quinn Pahoa Farm & Garden

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of state, you can't be growing them in the ground because of soil or microorganisms and nematodes. You have to have them certified, and so you need to grow them in pots. I have—here's another thing that you mischaracterized about this whole application and that is on the screen where you were—first you said these are the agricultural uses that are currently, and then you have the non-agricultural uses, and you were talking about livestock feed as being a non-agricultural use. I have yet to see a farm that is a diversified farm that doesn't have livestock, and yet, you're saying that livestock doesn't count as agriculture. Okay, I'm looking at Section 25-5-71, Permitted Uses, you have a lot of permitted uses that have nothing at all to do with agriculture—campgrounds, cemeteries, group living facilities, etc. And yet, on that permitted uses, item no. 6, item no. 12, 18, and 21 and 23 all have components that this building, that this business has that are strictly agricultural. So, my question to you is besides the fact that you really ought read, relook at your permitted uses here, is that you've, you've mislead this guy all along the thing that he needed a Special Permit. He doesn't need a Special Permit. He is ag. That's no question that, that this business is ag. The products he sells support agriculture, and the services that he provides support agriculture, and you can't have it, that he's the only one in all of lower Puna that is doing what he's doing, and the fact that he's been in business for 19 years, when so many other businesses have folded, should indicate to you that there is a real need for what he is providing and that you should decide that he does—that a Special Permit is not required. He is ag. Thank you. CLARKSON: You're welcome. Any questions from the Commission for this testifier? Apparently not. At this time, there being no further people in the audience who might want to testify, I'll ask for a motion for the closing of public testimony. AGUINALDO: Oh, wait, I get one. HALL: Wait AGUINALDO: No, Zendo and Mr. Quinn? QUINN: Yes, sir. AGUINALDO: You can come up. So, I HALL: Hold on CLARKSON: Wait, wait, wait AGUINALDO: Oh. CLARKSON: Gilbert, let's just close public testimony first and then AGUINALDO: Okay, okay. EXHIBIT D 11