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So we have a little bit of a "if somebody is going to tell us anything, we really want to see it in writing," kind of thing going on. The neighbors are tired. They're older, they don't have the stomach to come to these meetings. Quite truthfully, I don't know how much stomach I have for any more of these meetings. But I was grateful to receive the letter which at least meant that it wasn't over when I walked out the door last time. So does anybody have anything they want to ask me before I read by dad's letter? Okay, here we go. County of Hawaii Planning Commission regarding Rezoning request for Jan Oshiro. Dear Commissioners: My name is Dr. Mark Allan Goldman. Our family has owned the property at 43 East Lanikaula St. for close to 50 years. My youngest daughter was born there, in the back bedroom, overlooking the property of the rezoning in front of you. Your vote on the matter will represent not only how you feel individually, but as appointees of Mayor Kim, how his administration stands on these issues. Because this rezoning is more than the rezoning of a parcel or two, it will show the people of this island, and those on other islands, how you and Harry Kim stand on two very important issues. 1. One is whether you favor the preservation of residential land as opposed to replacing residential land with commercial land. 2. And the other is how you, and by your vote, Mayor Kim, stand on the issue of land speculation. Affordable housing is mostly a function of land availability. When you take residential land out of availability, you drive up the price of residential land. Are you and Mayor Kim for low or high priced residential land? On the second point. This land was obviously purchased with speculation in mind. Buy, and tum over fast with rezoning. The time line tells you so. Do you as individual commission members, and as Mayor Harry Kim's appointees, support speculation? And I think you should answer these questions before Harry runs for Governor. And that's why I've sent copies of this letter to the various newspaper in the State of Hawaii. And I'm sure they will await a follow up to your vote on this speculative rezoning. Now these are my dad's comments; and he feels pretty strongly although I think he would have preferred to be here and read this to you himself. He was unable to do so. I do want to say separate from this letter that it's not lost on us that there was a willingness on the part of the applicant to make some concessions. For that we are grateful. We just feel like we're in the box. 10