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Subject: RE: Parking lot next door
From: "BJ Leithead-Todd" <bjltodd @co.hawaii.hi.us>
Date: 11/19/2012 9:45 AM
To: "'Charlene Prickett'" <sales @charleneprickett.com>
CC: "Surprenant, April" <asurprenant @co.hawaii.hi.us>, "Kay, Christian"
<ckay @co.hawaii.hi.us>, "'Mitchell Roth"' <mitchellroth @yahoo.com>, "Brilhante, William"
<wbrilhante @co.hawaii.hi.us>, "Self, Amy" <aself @co.hawaii.hi.us>
We cited the Takase's for having a parking lot on land zoned residential in
the absence of any house on the property on Punahele Street. We consider
parking to be an accessory use to the primary use on a property. Without
the primary use, you cannot just have accessory use. However, if the County
were to acquire Ms. Tauro's property for parking purposes, that would be
another story as public uses are permissible in all zoning areas.
Original Message
From: Charlene Prickett [mailto:sales @charleneprickett.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2012 10: 51 PM
To: bjltodd @co.hawaii.hi.us
Cc: Surprenant, April; Kay, Christian; Mitchell Roth
Subject: Parking lot next door
Aloha BJ,
Last week I had a call two from Police Officer Todd Pataray who was
contacted by Council Member Dominic Yagong about boulders that I put out on
the Hilo side of the shoulder of Mill Road fronting TMK
2-7-027:021back in 2011. You'll recall that we own Mill Road and its
shoulder. Yagong says he has had a complaint from the property owners who
claim that the boulders are on their land and they want them removed. Delia
Tauro, the owner living in Hilo, apparently says that she eventually plans
to build a house. I'm not sure if this young woman ever lived in that house
with her parents, and she may not realize how much trouble accompanies
unattended parked cars especially on a dead end road.
Please understand that I am getting this information third hand, but until
I see a building permit, I am inclined to think this is an effort to provide
unofficial parking for beach access. I think those in favor of eminent
domain to take a public access that we built may be finding it hard to
dredge up sufficient beach parking. The fear of residents here near the end
of the road is that the lot will be cleared so that cars can park along the
frontage and crowd into other areas beside and behind the house as they did
for several years on the yard of a vacant house up the street on the Hamakua
side of the Mill Road. Surfers used to park all over that property with
sometimes as many as fourteen vehicles crammed onto the yard and the
adjacent lane. The nearby neighbors to that lot finally got so fed up with
the trash, foul language and public urination that they persuaded the owners
of the property to fence it to prevent parking.
Parking near the end of the road was always a chronic magnet for crime with
frequent "smash and grab" thefts on cars, vandalism to our gate and locks
and theft of any tools we might leave out on the land. Our purpose in
lining the road shoulder with boulders was to prevent parking on the road
shoulder and the associated crime which drifted onto our property from those
cars on the road. It was also an effort to eliminate the congestion at the
bottom and most narrow section of the road where cars block driveways, turn
around in driveways and idle in the road while dropping off or waiting to
pick up beach visitors. This congestion makes it difficult for all of us to cys 3, �
get in and out of our driveways and makes access impossible for emerg�aomm. Nip,/ OOu-�'l�l.�
vehicles and handicapped vans for my three elderly neighbors in theirRK T6:• r CO
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PLANNING DEPARTMENT
Aupuni Center • 101 Pauahi Street,Suite 3 • Hilo,Hawai'i 96720
Phone(808)961-8288 • Fax(808)961-8742
May 4, 2011
Ms. Delia Tauro, Ms. Carol T. Fleck, and
Ms. Stella T. Williamson
1382 Ala Kula Street
Hilo, HI 96720
Dear Ms. Tauro, Ms. Fleck, and Ms. Williamson:
SUBJECT: Complaint-Portions of Property being cleared of Vegetation by Non-
Owners for Alleged Use as a Parking Area
TMK: 2-7-027: 012, Portion Papa`ikou, South Hilo,Hawaii
On May 3, 2011, this office received a telephone complaint that the subject property is
being cleared by person(s)who do not own the property for alleged use as a parking area.
On May 5, 2011 our zoning inspectors conducted a site inspection of the subject property
and observed that there is an abandoned and dilapidated single-family dwelling structure
being engulfed by grasses and shrubs. Large cinder-type boulders have been placed on
the front lawn area as a barrier.
The property is accessed by Mill Road, which is a "private road" owned by the property
owner of TMK: 2-7-004: 118. Mill Road is an existing narrow roadway that gives access
to an old plantation housing area.
This letter is to inform you that the subject property falls within the Special Management
Area(SMA) which requires submission of an SMA Assessment Application to this office
prior to conducting any (emphasis applied) activities. Currently we have not received
any SMA Assessment Application informing us of the clearing of portions of your
property.
Please contact our Long Range Division Program Manager, Ms. April Surprenant, at
(808) 961-8131 to discuss the alleged activities. All activities must "stop" until approval
is given by this office to proceed.
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