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County took steps to correct the issue. After the issue was corrected the lowest weep hole on the retaining wall was 2 ft under ground. 7. Issues A. Will your property values decrease? Studies say no. My response. Once again studies are being used that are broad in scope. My property value will greatly decrease and so will the properties located next door to the apartments. We would have to greatly lower our selling price to induce someone to buy a property next to an apartment building. B Do you want more students in your neighborhood? University increases students not building houses equals more traffic. Housing students in your neighborhood reduces car traffic. New property tax revenues may be used for traffic mitigation. My response. The existing and any future increase in traffic that commute to the University commute to the school cue on different routes not just on Rini()'1e Street. Traffic will be increased by the apartments since there al 34 parking spaces and the guests trafficking to and from the apartments so traffic will not be decreased. Traffic comes and goes and other than the morning and afternoon commutes there is not a lot of traffic on the street most of the time. Traffic from the apartments is 24 / 7 and will create noise, nuisance and public safety issues. Property taxes are put into the general fund and chances are slim that any would be used for traffic mitigation in our neighborhood. C. Development remains students only. Restrict the land to student housing. My response. First of all the apartments are subject to rental and housing laws so it is not student housing and anyone who qualifies can rent an apartment. The apartments will rent to students and their immediate family (dependent children, spouses and civil partners) which can result in 3 to 5 people living in each bedroom which can result in over 100 people living at the apartments. His proposed restriction is for 10 years which is a short period of time. After that we may be faced with a low income apartment complex. I did contact a Mr. Miles Nagata head of UH housing here in Hilo and a Mr. Brian Minaii from the Office of Capitol Improvements regarding the Winegar project and they had no knowledge of the project. Until) Tuesday as stated in today's paper the University had no knowledge of this project. -t�l- T i--� Z v ti c'4 s G G'4 '3GrG �� Pl2C/5- (. 70 64 /5'v i;crvi C it</15,1_ 7744- - -1. /0 I feel a 25 % reduction in the size of the apartment is not enough as it will r- minimize all of the negative issues with this project by 25%. T r-r- �`z