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

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copy from an engineer showing that, yes, we do have the line of sight. The line of sight we have is enough and meets the requirements of the Department of Transportation. So, that we know for sure. In regards to the hydroplaning, safety to our visitors and residents would be better served if the speed limit were lowered to 35 miles per hour as it is down the road by HAAS School and the Post Office Road. It's a liability issue for the State and the County, the hydroplaning. We did a little research, and this is what we found. Dynamic hydroplaning occurs when a moving tire is completely separated from the pavement by a layer of water. Dynamic hydroplaning usually occurs at speeds above 45 miles per hour. By lowering it to 35, the liability issue of the State and the County would be diminished greatly. At 45 miles per hour, there's a possibility, but according to the studies that they do on dynamic hydroplaning, it does not exist at 45 miles per hour and lower. It would be a consideration that I feel if the State or the County looked at would possibly save the State and the County liability issues moving forward. In November of 2017, the Planning Department furnished our family a map and zoning rules for ag lands before the land was even purchased. The map they printed me is this map right here. There were three people working that day in November of 2017a gentleman by the name of Geoff, a lady by the name of Tracie, and a lady by the name of Anne. When they printed out the map for our family and printed out the zoning rules for that particular parcel, they stood on the side, and they were talking to each other while I waited. When they came back to me, they said it's doable. They said it would be doable to put a nursery and a feed business over there, and the reason why they said it was doable was because of this flag that's on our parcel. As you can see, across the street, there are no flags. If you look on the Catholic parking lot, the land for the Catholic Church, there is a flag. There is also flags within Pahoa Town. So, this particular map that the Department of Planning gave our family has a flag, and it was flagged. They said it was doable. At that time, they also, like I expressed, gave me the zoning rules. Agricultural products processing, major and minor, that's a few of the items that we process at the feed store where we're at right now. Nurseries and greenhouses and similar uses dealing with the growing of plants. A dwelling can be put on the property, farm dwellings, and then they have the sections as permitted. And structures which are necessary for agricultural practices which is 75 percent of the business that we presently do in Pahoa at the location where we're at. This is a seed, this was a seed that came from the University of Hawaii. From the seed, we spouted it. From the sprout, we put it in a four -inch pot. This is eggplant, purple, the long one. That's Mamaki tea. Those are kind of hard to find. And Manoa lettuce. The Mamaki tea is a medicinal plant. We also have other varieties of medicinal plants in our nurseries that we sell a lot of. We sell a lot of the lettuce. We sell a lot of the eggplant presently. So, that's what happened in November of 2017 with the Planning Department when they furnished me this map, those three people. At that time, I went back in, I think it was March, March of 2018, when I went back in March of 2018, we turned in an agricultural -based commercial operation certification. That's what we were trying to achieve according to the three people that made me these copies. When we turned this inin, it was, I'm pretty sure it was December `cause I went down in November, in March, I went back. When I went back, Earl, a gentleman by the name of Earl, said that the Planning Department never received this because EXHIBIT D 7