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going to be worse, and you've got Home Depot. And 1 believe that area is not going to be able <br /> to handle the crowd around that area. Okay, thank you. <br /> GRAHAM: Thank you for your testimony, sir. Any questions? <br /> SIRACUSA: Yes. <br /> GRAHAM: Commissioner Siracusa? <br /> SIRACUSA: Yes. You oppose the superstore on that site. Do you oppose superstores <br /> in general or do you, you know, does it matter to you? Depends on the site specific, your <br /> concerns? <br /> YASUTAKE: I oppose any superstores. `Cause I travel to the mainland and I see some <br /> of them; and the communities, they look devastated to me. <br /> SIRACUSA: Thank you for making that clearer. <br /> GRAHAM: Thank you, sir. Donna Leong, please. Give your name and address first <br /> and then your testimony. <br /> LEONG: Aloha kakou. My name is Donna Leong. I live at 60 Komohane Street in <br /> Keaukaha. When I take a look at this, the number 5 on your agenda, I am in favor of this <br /> proposed amendment which would not permit superstores in any zoning. Now I'm looking at <br /> your wording of "in any zoning district." So if we have districts on our island that are already <br /> designated, that means in none of the districts? Am I reading this correctly that there would be <br /> no superstores? <br /> GRAHAM: I believe you are. <br /> LEONG: And so I am in favor of it for three reasons. <br /> Number one, you know, our mom and pop stores which have really cemented our lifestyle here <br /> in Hawaii are gone. When we have a superstore come in, do you have a choice of what to buy as <br /> we did with mom and pop stores? You know, you could go to the best crackseed shops and get <br /> crackseeds. Can you do that today? Or does it come out of a package that is displayed in 40 <br /> other stores or in just the superstores? And so that particular lifestyle is gone. <br /> The second also when you talk about economics and you talk about if, you know, we'll be <br /> making money or there will be more jobs or that people can climb the economic ladder, when we <br /> take a look at that, how far up the ladder do we want to go, or can we be satisfied with the easy <br /> living that we have today? If we take a look at superstores, are they to save us money? Are they <br /> to give us jobs? Because if it does save us money, where does that money go? Now lazge <br /> superstores say that, you know, they'll take care of the local district that they will be in, they'll <br /> take care of the environment that they'll be in, and they'll take care of the people. But when you <br /> take a look at it as I've seen in other superstores, and the one that we have here is Wa1-Mart, it's <br /> that a lot of the entry level jobs are for locals. But when you graduate to the higher levels in that <br /> <br /> job capacity, they're not. And so how much of that will be benefit our children? <br /> 8 <br /> <br />