PL-SPP-2022-000016 P. and J. Tama Testimony 01.02.23

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From: Pedro Tama To: W PCtesti mono Subject: Special Permit Appl PL-SPP-2022-000016-Jan 6th hearing Date: Monday,January 2, 2023 8:22:51 PM Date: January 2, 2023 To: Hawai'i County Planning Department and Windward Planning Commission From: Neighbors of Special Permit Application PL-SPP-2022-000016 Re: Written Testimony for January 6th Planning Commission Meeting In October of 2022 1 and my wife submitted testimony in this case stating: "We support the Applicant's proposed project with some appropriate conditions." Now we have changed our mind. We oppose the application for a Special Permit and strongly request the Planning Commission to deny it. This case should go back to the Board of Appeals where it belongs. What has changed? For us, new information has come to light about the Applicant's past self-serving deceptions to both the County and his neighbors. And recent events have been equally disturbing so as to convince us the applicant cannot be trusted to keep agreements, no matter how many conditions the County imposes. Does the Planning Commission know that for his first subdivision for Lolia Place in 2014 he never posted visible signage on the Red Road, the closest public road, as legally required? Do they know that for his most recent subdivision, Kaulupomauka LLC, next to Lolia Place, he never posted visible signage on the Red Road, as legally required. And do they know, as they should, that for the first attempted hearing for this Special Permit in November he deliberately posted the required signage at his property at the end of private, gated, Lolia Place, 900 ft from the Red Road. Three in a row.. He has made concertd effort to suppress public awareness, knowledge and public comments — and therefore potential criticism — of his real estate developments and now Special Permit application There is so much the Planning Derpartment and Planning Commission don't know, and so much the neighbors do know about the proposed project. My wife was one of the original complainants in 2019. We watched in frustration and astonishment as the county granted numerous requests to delay his appeal over nearly three years. We did not move here to get involved in this kind of conflict, but we never antiipated a neighbor who could so easily pull the rug over the County's eyes, month after month after month, year after year. Now he is making another attempt with a whitewashed Application that never gets to