HomeMy WebLinkAbout2012-57.5 Glickman-Hewitt TestimonyLarry Brown
To: UschiandDavid Snover
Subject: RE: Testimony to Amendment of Space Permit #1122
Communication No. 2012 -57.5
From: UschiandDavid Snover [mai Ito: thesnoversCa)mac.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:19 AM
To: Larry Brown
Cc: Gary Glickman
Subject: re: Testimony to Amendment of Space Permit #1122
Aloha Larry,
we are hereby forwarding the testimony from Gary Glickman and Stephan Hewitt,
(TMK 040 -038 and 040 -039).
Mahalo,
David and Ursula Snover
Begin forwarded message:
From: Gary Glickman <garyglickman(c)-adelphia.net>
Subject: Re: Meeting of the Action Committee of PCDP tomorrow at 3pm
Date: May 13, 2013 2:03:35 PM HST
To: david and uschi Snover <thesnovers(d)-mac.com>
To Uschi and David Snover,
As owners and developers of three lots near SPACE, we are among the
neighbors who will be most impacted by increased noise and traffic if the
organization is allowed to increase the volume of its public events, as
described in the proposed amendment.
We would be so grateful if somehow you could convey to the Action
Committee of the Puna Community Development Plan how devastating it would be
to find after all our years of planning, dreaming, and saving money and
changing our lives so that we can spend our days and nights in quiet far
from traffic and amplified sounds, that we were trapped by our vicinity to
what the HAWAII VOLCANO CIRCUS is requesting.
TO THE ACTION COMMITTEE!
The neighborhood is very vulnerable already -- every car that passes our
land is an'event' -- all the neighbors know that loud talking on the
street is audible to every house. One of the shared understandings of the
neighborhood is that we are all sustaining the special environment by being
courteous and mindful of our neighbors.
This carefulness is injured every time a public event happens— even in
its current shape, the farmers' market traffic makes a big impact on the
neighborhood.
Whenever there is amplified music, it impacts half the neighborhood. Even
when the events at SPACE are beautiful, fun, artistic, and joyous, they are
still events that impact the western half of the neighborhood, with no
ability of neighbors to mitigate a disturbance.
If the special permission to increase event volume is given, we will
have even less ability to control and protect our neighborhood, and the
"powerful" minority neighbor will be usurping what should be a
democratically protected process.
Please, please help us protect our neighborhood! It is always too easy
to give in to special interests, and simply hope or assume that they will be
good neighbors.
This has already been proved to be not true, again and again! The
original permissions have been abused and ignored for a decade already. With
such a precedence, there is very little reason to think that complaints will
have any "neighborly" effect in the future.
Thank you.
Gary Glickman
Stephan Hewitt
12301 Pohakupele Loop