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~ 6 am Box 1189. Pahoa, HI 96778 Jan. 18, 2007 Re: Hawaii County Council Bills 220 & 221 Aloha Hawaii County Council members, I am president of Mainstreet Pahoa Association and have presented oral and written testimony to the planning commission and the council on this rezoning effprt previously. What I would like to add at this time is that I was approached by the rezoning applicant, Tim Gardner and his corporate backer, last year seeking support from Mainstreet Pahoa Association for the rezoning presently under your consideration. Mr. Gardner represented that the self storage would be a good neighbor and that with so few car visits the traffic safety concerns were minimal. I had to respond that if their traffic flow was so small I could still see no justification for the additional expense of a Hwy. 130 high traffic location and the resulting legal precedent. I asked Mr. Gardner why a Hwy. 130 access was so important and was told that the self-storage facility required maximum visibility from the highway. My response was on two points: 1) Everyone, rich and poor, had to travel to the Pahoa transfer station and the visibility there, for their expressed purpose was equal to or exceeding that of Hwy. 130. 2) That there was a self storage facility in HPP at 13th and Kololi which was extremely busy without any highway visibility. The highway visibilty issue did not make sense. At that time I informed Mr. Gardner that Mainstreet Pahoa sees a need for self-storage would welcome a facility in Pahoa but not on any Hwy. 130 location. To good purpose I suggested that there were locations within Pahoa Village which we would actively support rezoning and that they might even be less expensive property. I directed their attention to any location on Pahoa Village Road and to vacant land on the Transfer Station Rd.