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WINDWARD PLANNING COMMISSION <br /> COUNTY OF HAWAI`I <br /> TESTIMONY TRANSCRIPT <br /> APRIL 6, 2023 <br /> Public testimony regarding the application of HAWAIIAN OLA BREWING CORP. <br /> (PL-SMA-2022-000025) was heard at 9:18 a.m. in the County of Hawaii Council Chambers in <br /> Hilo, 25 Aupuni Street, Hilo, Hawaii with Chair Dennis Lin presiding. <br /> COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Dennis Lin, Lauren Balog, John C. Cross, Louis Danielle III, <br /> Wayne De Luz, and Chantel Perrin. <br /> ALSO PRESENT: Sinclair Salas-Ferguson Esq. (Counsel for the Commission), Zendo Kern <br /> (Planning Director), Jessica Andrews (Planner), Alex Roy (Planner), Christin Kay (Planner), <br /> Clinton Mercado (Planner), Janice Hata(Zoom Host), Maija Jackson Planning Program <br /> Manager), and Melissa Dacayanan-Salvador (Windward Planning Commission Secretary). <br /> And seventeen members from the public were in attendance. <br /> APPLICANT: HAWAIIAN OLA BREWING CORP. (PL-SMA-2022-000025) <br /> Application for a Special Management Area Use Permit to convert the existing Wainaku <br /> Executive Center into a micro-distillery, restaurant, and bar, and includes grading for new <br /> parking and the installation of a wastewater system to accommodate the new uses on 12.31 acres <br /> of land situated in the Special Management Area. The subject parcels are located along the makai <br /> side of Hawaii Belt Road, approximately 200 feet south of its intersection with Hau Street, <br /> Portion of Wailua& Mokuhonua, South Hilo, Hawaii, TMKs: (3) 2-6-015:001 & 002. <br /> Secretary's Note: [indecipherable] indicates that there were technical and/or internet difficulties, <br /> which made the conversation inaudible. <br /> LIN: Okay, so going on to in-person testifiers, is there any in-person testifiers <br /> who'd like to testify now. Okay, I have the first one is Corey Harden. Okay, if you could please <br /> raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the <br /> Windward Planning Commission? <br /> HARDEN: Yes. <br /> LIN: Okay, please press the microphone button and speak directly and clearly <br /> into the microphone and begin your testimony by stating your name and the town you reside in, <br /> and you have three (3) minutes. <br /> HARDEN: Okay, good morning, Commissioners. I want to thank you for your <br /> volunteer service. Cory Harden for Sierra Club Hawaii Island Group, I live in Hilo. I'm talking <br /> about Item 92 the Ola Brewing project and there's many positive to the project but there's two <br /> inconvenient truths. One is that seawalls don't stop erosion. They only deflect it to other <br /> 1 <br /> EXHIBIT A <br />