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DAY-LUM RENTALS ~L MANAGEMENT, INC. <br /> DAY LUM RENTALS Phone (808) 935-4152 <br /> 2 I<amehameha Avenue Fax (808) 961-2459 <br /> Hilo, Hawaii 96720-2830 a-mail: rentals@daylum.com <br /> TO: Hawaii County Planning Committee <br /> FROM: Nancy Cabral <br /> DATE: May 15, 2007 <br /> RE: Re-Zoning Request for Punahele Professional Building <br /> I am writing in support of the request by Punahele Professional Building Association of Owners asking for re- <br /> zoning of their adjacent lot to allow for more parking. I ask that you vote in favor of this zoning request for the <br /> following reasons: <br /> 1. The parking is needed by the doctors and medical professionals located in the "Surgery Center". Our <br /> County is in need of attracting and retaining medical services for our growing population. The medical <br /> businesses in the Surgery Center are small businesses and in need or servicing their customers. If customers can <br /> not find packing stalls, it will have a negative effect on their businesses and their will be forced to consider <br /> moving their business to another location, perhaps off island. <br /> 2. The re-zoning of this lot will resolve the complaints presented by the neighboring property owner, Cheryl <br /> Reese. According to Ms. Reese, this lot has been used as: <br /> a construction staging are for the County or a parking lot for the adjacent jail since 1987 - 20 years <br /> a crime scene for drug dealers and prostitutes -although no police reports have been made <br /> a dumping ground for rubbish <br /> an area where people stop to look into her windows <br /> an area where gas fumes enter her lot causing breathing problems <br /> If you, the Planning Committee allow for this zoning change, the Association of Owners will: <br /> maintain or improve the current fence and gate structuce surrounding the lot, which was not present over the <br /> past 20 years, thereby keeping others from using the lot. Without the re-zoning there is no reason for the Surgery <br /> Center to maintain the fence and gate on this subject property. Without the fence and gate there will be no control <br /> over the use of the lot. <br /> keep the lot secured and provide security throughout the night. Without the re-zoning the lot will have a <br /> privacy barrier installed between the Surgery Center and subject lot and no security will be provided. <br /> provide janitorial and grounds keeping services to the lot. Without the rezoning the lot will return to general <br /> weed overgrowth and litter left by those trespassing on it when parking to visit the jail. <br /> <br /> --provide landscaping to limit the visibility into adjacent properties. Without the re-zoning the lot there will be no <br /> control over who Trespasses on the lot or there activities. <br /> provide a solid fence to help contain gas fumes and further require medical personal to face into their parking <br /> stalls. Without the re-zoning there will be no ability to enforce `House Rules' governing the parking habits of <br /> <br /> those parking in the lot. <br /> 3. It is unfortunate that these few homeowners have found themselves sandwiched in the middle of urban sprawl. <br /> Over the past forty years the neighboring jail and nearby schools that was pre-existing have been expanded, the <br /> adjacent dead-end street, Komohana Gardens, has been extended and the former sugar cane land has developed <br /> into a much needed medical and business area. <br /> I ask this wise body to vote in favor of the re-zoning request to allow for parking on this lot as it is a win-win <br /> <br /> solution for all parties and to not be brought into a long standing vendetta by a neighboring owner against the <br /> <br /> developer of these medical buildings. <br /> r' _PG~c"""r~_. <br /> AI,o~„u{ Gbca~ l <br /> <br />