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From: Anthonv.Joshua K <br /> To: WPCtestimonv <br /> Cc: JOSHUA ANTHONY <br /> Subject: Testimony Silber project <br /> Date: Monday,July 3,2023 11:45:20 AM <br /> To: Windward Planning Commission <br /> From: Joshua Anthony <br /> P.O. Box 831104 <br /> Pepeekeo, HI 96783 <br /> Ref: APPLICANT: ROBERT J. SILBER (PL-SPP-2022-000016) Application for a <br /> Special Permit to legitimize the operation of a holistic education center on <br /> approximately 8.134 acres of land in the State Land Use Agricultural District. The <br /> subject property is located at 13-2060 Lolia Place, approximately 0.3 miles <br /> northwest (mauka) of its intersection with Kalapana-Kapoho Beach Road, Pohoiki, <br /> Puna, Hawaii, TMK: (3) 1-3-002:140. <br /> Dear Planning commission members, <br /> I am writing in opposition to the special use permit for the "retreat" center proposed <br /> by Roberts Silber. Presently I am the owner of the adjacent property TMK <br /> 130021190000 and share a fence line with the property in question. <br /> I was fortunate enough to purchase TMK 130021190000 prior to Mr. Silber's <br /> purchase and later development of the neighboring parcel. Since Mr. Silber's <br /> presence in the area, I have yet to engage with him beyond email but have had <br /> extensive dialog with multiple previous tenants of his, neighbors and concerned <br /> community members whom I have yet to engage with even one that has positive <br /> things to say about their interactions with him. My only direct interaction with him <br /> and his community was when he was running late evening retreats and had <br /> excessively loud music and expressive moaning from groups of people long past the <br /> dark hours of the night and into the early morning. Mr. Silber brought the direct <br /> neighboring community together, as a healthy retreat center might do, but <br /> unfortunately it was in extreme opposition to the inappropriate commercial activity <br /> and frequent excessively loud and all-night weeklong gatherings that were held, <br /> As a father of a young daughter this made any evenings on the property difficult as <br /> well as making me question the safety of raising a family there. Through the <br /> following years I was told by multiple residents that the grounds were a proposed <br />