HomeMy WebLinkAboutSPP-21-000227 11.5.2021 M. VAN PERNIS TESTIMONY
Mori, Ashley
From:Sauer, Noriko
Sent:Monday, November 8, 2021 9:58 AM
To:test; LPCtestimony
Cc:Cook-Lauer, Nancy; Villegas, Rebecca; Andrews, Jessica; Jackson, Maija
Subject:RE: SPP 21-00027
Dear Mr. Van Pernis:
By this reply email I am confirming our telephone conversation that you advised me to disregard your "prior written
testimony" that you mentioned in your email below, and that neither the Planning Department nor I received, since your
supplemental email below covers all the points in your testimony.
Also, I provided you with the correct email address to reach the Planning Department: planning@hawaiicounty.gov.
However, please note that the best email address to submit written testimony to the Leeward Planning Commission is
LPCtestimony@hawaiicounty.gov.
Sincerely,
Noriko
Noriko Sauer, Secretary
Leeward Planning Commission and
Kailua Village Design Commission
County of Hawai‘i Planning Department
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74-5044 Ane Keohokālole Highway
Kailua-Kona, HI 96740
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Email: noriko.sauer@hawaiicounty.gov
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Sent: Friday, November 05, 2021 4:28 PM
To: Sauer, Noriko <Noriko.Sauer@hawaiicounty.gov>
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Subject: SSP 21-00027
Leeward Planning Commission,
I want to supplement (and correct typographical errors in) my prior written testimony submitted to you, as follows.
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Please accept this supplemented written testimony concerning SSP 21-000227, Applicant Kona Aerial Gymnastic Team,
Inc. Please distribute this to all Commissioners assign as reasonably possible. Mahalo.
While I am in favor of Kona Aerial being allowed to continue in its present location, there are conditions that should be
imposed on the landowner based on facts the Commission must consider, regardless any lease language or other
attempt by the lessor/landowner to impose such conditions in the Applicant.
1. The true applicant is the sophisticated developer Mr. Bolton, or an entity he controls. As landlord, he was certainly
aware of the use by the unsuspecting tenant (Applicant) to be not permitted and illegal for his low tax rate ag property
at the time the lease and non-permittred use began.
2. The access to the property is on a dangerous blind curve on shoulderless Hualalai Road. During certain times of the
day, there are bad traffic jams nearby. Hualalai Road users from the dozen for so new subdivisions that use HualalaI
(some with required turn lanes), as well as makai traffic down Hualalai from the Mamalahoa Highway, bitterly complain
of the existing traffic during “rush hours”. This Commission recently approved a large preschool with access from
Hualalai nearby, also an a blind curve, without shoulders or a turn lane as advocated by some. Hualalai is an overused
substandard old wagon track road. Road improvements are desperately needed. A site inspection and a traffic study are
very necessary. Do your duty to the community and don’t make a bad road situation worse.
3. Mr. Bolton's property is in an area designated for “urban”. He should be required to rezone, so special permits for his
low tax ag property don’t come into play for too long.
The Commission and County Council should not be manipulated by Mr. Bolton with special use permit applications on
now inappropriate ag zoning just to insure his low ag tax rate and past and future rental income. Why should Special
Permits be handed out instead of getting the available urban zoning intended for this and the Penalosa property? Mr.
Bolton is responsible for creating this situation, and he should be responsible for curing it.
Are you again willing to sacrifice the West Hawaii public, and particularly Hualalai Road users, for the private fnancial
benefit of a landllord? Is being “nice” to Mr. Bolton and the Applicant more important than YOUR DUTY TO ALL OF
WEST HAWAII? Does the public have to pay for the road improvements necessitated by Mr. Bolton’s long standing
commercial use of his ag property. For his clear and knowing and lengthy violation, Mr. Bolton should be very
substantially fined. Pursuing an after the fact permit is not enough, and any practice by the Planning Department to that
effect is a derogation of their duty. Road shoulders and a turn lane are necessary. And there should be a condition that
proper urban zoning be applied for, which is available.
Sincerely, Mark Van Pernis
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