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~ ~ 2 KAPAEHAMEHA AVE. <br /> - - HILO, HI 96720 <br /> SALES (808) 935-0399 <br /> FAX (808) 961-2459 <br /> DAY-LU M E-MAIL salesQdaylum.com <br /> PROPERTIES <br /> <br /> TO: Hawaii County Council <br /> F ~~lii <br /> FRO~VI: Nancy Cabr ~~~...~~r~~vm.e...~. <br /> !C,~sX <br /> DATE: February 6, 2002 <br /> RE: Keaa'u Housing Community Needs <br /> As I previously stated to this Council and to the Planning Committee last year at this <br /> time, there is substantial growth in the residential communities in Puna. As the owner <br /> and president of Day-Lum, Inc. and Day-Lum Rentals & Management, Inc. and Coldwell <br /> Banker Day-Lum Properties, I have been involved with residential housing and <br /> residential communities in the Keaa'u area for 22 years. In this capacity I have had <br /> hundreds of tenants and currently oversee the management of approximately 150 <br /> individual rental homes in the area. I am also the property manager for Hawaiian <br /> Paradise Par]< with 8,835 house lots, and Keaa'u Ag Lots with 322 residential lots. These <br /> subdivisions boast approximately 3,000 houses with continuous constriction and growth <br /> occurring in both communities. <br /> The people in these communities desire and need additional services in the Keaa'u area. <br /> The proposed Gateway Shopping Center could include stores, offices and services that <br /> will provide for the daily needs of all residents in the community and will eliminate <br /> undesired trips to the `Big City' of Hilo. The additional amenities will enhance the <br /> opportunities for residents to make Keaa'u their shopping and business destination. It <br /> will help to make Keaa'u a town with a greater community focus. <br /> The current cost of building and development and the commercial regulations with which <br /> businesses must comply make it costly and difficult for individual stores and offices to <br /> build in a new area. <br /> Please have the strength of character to do what is right, to not fear change or fear hurting <br /> the old establishment's feelings. Provide the guidelines for good growth. Help our <br /> growing communities to have a shopping destination of their own by approving H. <br /> Shipman Ltd.'s proposed new venture. „},,f, <br /> File ~aTa. <br /> . <br /> Ref. ~`o: <br /> Each Office Is Independently Owned And Operated. <br /> Rif. ~~c~ ~~2 <br /> <br />