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I was also asked if we could develop parking remotely and bus patients <br /> and health care providers to the Punahele Professional Building. First, the <br /> physicians who run back and forth to the hospital and ER, have to park <br /> onsite. Can you imagine Dr. Gerald Lau or Dr. Raymond Lee being bused <br /> to their vehicles when they are paged to operate on a patient with a <br /> ruptured aorta or appendix? At some places like Disneyland, people do <br /> park in remote parking lots and are bused in. We see 10,000 patients <br /> annually for mammography alone. I will ask those women if they wish to <br /> spend the extra half hour or hour being bused in for mammography, and <br /> have then call the County Council with their opinion, but I won't give your <br /> home phone numbers. It will be more convincing to hear the opinions of <br /> your mothers, wives and daughters this offsite busing plan. <br /> With this additional important information to consider, 1 think that there is no <br /> reasonable alternative to approving the rezoning of this parking lot. The <br /> County Planning Department approved the rezoning this lot because "The <br /> County is responsible for general welfare of it's residents and must continue <br /> to make every effort to ensure that adequate health services are <br /> provided". If the Council approves rezoning, then privacy fences and or <br /> green belts will be constructed around the lot, and the lot's access to <br /> Punahele Street will be permanently blocked. <br /> If the Council members vote against rezoning then the Punahele <br /> Professional Building likely will be forced to divert funding needed for better <br /> medical equipment into the concrete for a large parking ramp which will <br /> tower over Punahele Street. Our fencing currently blocking access to the <br /> lot from Punahele Street wil be removed and the control of the lot will <br /> revert back to the previous owners. The Planning Department states "the <br /> property does have a sewer line and water line that extends form <br /> Punahele Street to the rear of the property, which renders the property <br /> <br /> unbuildable". Therefore, this would forever remain a vacant lot, used for <br /> unfenced, unauthorized parking with all of the associated criminal activity <br /> <br />