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Certificates of Occupancy for 12 individual condo units in PPB. The first is dated April 14, 1997. Planning Department tentative Subdivision Approval dated May 28, 1997 to Dr. Takase. Aside from the requirements of meeting the conditions of Ord. 95-33, No vehicular access onto Punahele Street, etc., there is an added caution on page 2: ...No final approval for recordation shall be granted until all the above conditions are met. Land will not be offered for sale, lease or rent until final approval for recordation of the subdivision..." (Exhibit 22) Final Subdivision Approval from the Planning Department dated July 9, 1997 states: "...This final approval is with the understanding that in compliance with Condition No. 7 of our tentative approval letter of May 28, 1997, no vehicular access will be permitted from this development onto Punahele Street. As such, a deed covenant fora "No Vehicular Access Planting Screen Easement" at the end of Easement "B" (Road and Utility Purposes) within Lot 12-A-1 adjacent to Lot 6 (TMK: 2-3- 035:018) be recorded with the new deed and a copy submitted to this department for this subdivision file..." No copy was on file with the Planning Deoartment as of May 4, 2007. I wasn't able to find this document in an on-line search of the Bureau of Conveyances records for Dr. Takase or GELOCAG. (Exhibit 23) I continued to report concerns to Mr. Yamanoha in Planning as he had originally personally visited Mrs. Gushiken and I at our homes and said he would do what he could for us if we reported violations to him. Each time he said he would look into it. He did virtually nothing. Finally in 2001, I spoke to Ms. Leithead-Todd who was our County Council representative at the time. She was familiar with the situation as I had discussed it with her previously. She arranged for a meeting with the involved parties which took place in Summer 2001 at the PPB site. I went representing my neighbors. In attendance was Ms. Leithead-Todd, Ms. Nancy Cabral -Property Manager, Jeff Darrow - Planning, Gerald and Allan Takase. The lack of the "continuous, heavy planting screen" was very critical to us and that nothing had ever been planted across the common boundary of the "subject property" and that of PPB. An asphalt berm is all that ever was and continues to be the only separation between the two parcels. I asked for plantings as required and was told that termites were destroying the existing podocarpus and they were looking for alternative plants. To replace the podocarpus along the 7