2020-02-06 Exh A PD Initiated Vincent Tai REZ 13-167

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AGUINALDO: I'm good. Chair Rafpiy called a recess at 10:15 a.m., and the meeting was reconvened at 10:26 a.m. RAFFIPIY: The Windward Planning Commission is back in session. Thank you, Mr. Tai. You can take your seat. We're going to move into public testimony. [Chair Rafpiy tapped the gavel to call the meeting to order.] The Windward Planning Commission is back in session. Mr. Tai, thank you very much, you can take your seat. We're going to move into public testimony. We have six testifiers who signed up for, to testify on this item. I'd like to call up—if the following can come forward: Mr. Dwight Vicente, Mr. Wayne Deluz, Ms. Ann Toma, please come forward. Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Planning Commission? DELUZ/A. TOMA: I do. RAFFIPIY: Thank you. Let the record show that Mr. Vicente is not sworn in. All right, we're going to start from my left to right. Please state your name, the area where you reside, who you represent, and proceed with your testimony, please. DELUZ: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, my name is Wayne Deluz. I represent the property—I have a property adjoining to Mr. Tai's. It is listed in the DPW June 21 ", 2019 correspondence to Mr. Tai, which I will reference very briefly, but DPW I think did an exceptional job on this report. It does list in detail what is wrong with these trees and where it encroaches. Even had really nice aerial photos of the breakdown. But, I'll be brief, I know which is hard because I'm Portuguese, but I did promise the Commissioners. But, I want to say good morning to all the Commissioners, Planning Director Yee, and all the wonderful staff. You know, I've served on several commissions, and I can't think of any one tougher than the one you guys serve on. So, really, I want to commend the Commissioners for a lot of your time and patience in going through a lot of these things that make it difficult. But, once again, my name is Wayne Deluz, and I am an unfortunate property owner that has a unit that borders to Mr. Tai's property, and it has been negatively affected by Mr. Tai's irresponsibility to maintain his overbearing tree line. I do not reside at this property, but have owned and managed it for over 17 years, and I just love and respect the wonderful neighborhood there, and so have my tenants. We own and operate numerous residential and commercial properties throughout the Big Island, and respect all our surrounding owners, and I think as mentioned earlier by Commissioner Aguinaldo that—what it really comes down to here is what is a good neighbor. You know, we shouldn't be sitting here taking up valuable time and having DPW going out and making assessments is, I've always found as a property owner, that I personally pass out my business cards and talk to the property owners and ask them what can we do to improve it or what's the problem and work it out because I don't believe that that needs to go to the extent of where we stand now. The question was, I don't occupy my properties either, but I do check on them, and I check with the neighbors. EXHIBIT A 18