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From: Brady Metcalf [brady @pahoaautoparts.com]
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 12:53 PM
To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us
Subject: Testimony re: Bill 283 Woodlands Center
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Original Message
From: Brady Metcalf
To: jyoshimoto @co.hawaii.hi.us
Cc: dikeda @co.hawaii.hi.us ; donishi @co.hawaii_hi.us ; dyagong @co.hawaii.hi.us ; bford @co.hawaii.hi.us ;
phoffmann @co.hawaii.hi,us ; genriques @co.hawaii.hi.us ; enaeole @co.hawaii.hi.us ; kgreenwell @co.hawaii.hi.us
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 5:17 PM
Subject: Bill 283 Woodlands Center
Attached you will find some documents that I was asked to forward to Mr.(s) Sniffen, Tamura and Sumada re:
alleged
"grubbing" on the Woodlands property. These documents clearly indicate that more than just grubbing has
occured.
This is just one more example of a person or persons involved in the Woodlands Center project purposely and
willfully making, what I believe to be, untrue claims in their alleged attempts to circumvent county law, and
also the authority of the County Council.
The owner /develper were notified in writing in Dec. 2009 that their zoning had expired. Mr. McElvaney later
claimed to have
filed for an extension "as soon as we realized we had gone past the deadline." (Records show his applcation for
extension April 16, 2010).
When it became evident to the owner /developer that there might be public opposition to the rezoning request,
Woodlands attempted to circumvent the Council's authority by illegally seeking a Certificate of Occupancy through
Dept.(s) of Planning and Public Works.
Most recently Mr. Ogasawara, when asked in no uncertain terms, if he would withdraw his "generous" out of his
own pocket" "gift" of ( +/- )$400,000.00 for traffic mitigation measures REQUIRED BY LAW, if the County Council
actually enforced the Concurrency Ordinance of the County Code, Paul acted as though he might do exactly that,
withdraw "his" funds for these required traffic mitigation measures.
As it turns out, Longs /CVS had allocated more than 3/4 of that funding for the express purpose of making sure
these mitigation measures were completed before their scheduled Nov 1 opening date. So Mr. Ogasawara could
not have withdrawn those funds even if he had wished to withdraw them.
It is my opinion that the Woodlands folks, from the outset, have intended to ramrod this project through the
County in the hopes that they could get their Certificate(s) of Occupancy, with little or no traffic mitigation, and
later lay all of the associated expense of actual traffic mitigation, (to date,still not quantified),on the taxpayers
doorstep, as well as the surrounding property owners. I may be mistaken in this opinion. But I believe the
evidence and my personal experiences throughout this whole developement fiasco support this idea.
In my opinion, Mr. Ogasawara is not the public benefactor that he has made himself out to be. Paul is a
businessman. His motivation is profit, pure and simple. His actions are directed by what will best benefit Paul and
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Paul's business interests.
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It is my opinion that Mr. Ogasawara, or his agents or representatives have endeavored to mislead the County
Council and the taxpayers, (and registered voters), of the County and State of Hawaii through their spoken
testimony and through what they have chosen not to disclose through their testimony. Their alleged actions
demonstrate the intent to achieve their ends no matter what the cost in public safety, so long as the financial
burden can be sloughed off on the taxpayer and the surrounding property owners (that have zero to do with the
incremental increase in traffic on the only road into and out of Woodlands Center.)
But again, this is all just my opinion. We'll soon see how everything plays out in the real world.
Thank for your time and consideration,
Brady Metcalf
brady @pahoaautoparts.com
9/20/2010
Mayor
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