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FOGEL: Well, yes, the meeting -. I was not at any of the meetings. I was going to go to one but
<br />unfortunately the date that was published was incorrect and I didn’t make it. It was later revised.
<br />It was in the paper. It was my understanding in talking to a few people who were there, that the
<br />alternatives were not wide-based, okay. You had the status quo and you had a couple of
<br />alternatives, but they all involved tearing down the trees and that kind of stuff. There wasn’t,
<br />there was not another alternative. So when you ask people to choose something, you know, they
<br />choose what’s in front of them, not nece -, you know, what they think is the best of the three, but
<br />not necessarily what they really think is what should be done.
<br />DOMINGO: Okay, thank you very much.
<br />WOODWARD: Okay. Michael Nakamura, -.
<br />NAKAMURA: Hello.
<br />WOODWARD: If you’ll give us your name and address and begin.
<br />NAKAMURA: Hello, hello. Michael Nakamura, 1179 North Kumuwaina Street, Hilo, Hilo. I
<br />came to this meeting spur of the moment. I’m a boater. I use Reeds Bay. And I was just
<br />concerned about any plans to change what’s there now. I didn’t know, you know, too much
<br />about the alternative. I kind of do now. As far as my support, it has waivered somewhat from
<br />my original position. Okay? But I still think Reeds Bay as it is now is a nice place. And
<br />Mr. Ishibashi in particular said something about fix it. That kind of upset me when I heard the
<br />word fix it. In my opinion it’s not broken, okay. Every day I go down there to use my boat a lot
<br />of tourist busses stop there. I don’t know if any of you have seen that. And they spend at least a
<br />minute explaining the area and letting the tourists see the area. It’s a beautiful area as is, in my
<br />opinion. That’s the area they stop at. If you past that area towards Banyan Drive where the
<br />parking lot and the grassy area is supposed to be developed, nobody passes there, not too many
<br />people park in there, okay. I can see a development on that side and maybe a grassy area would
<br />be nice with a pavilion for picnics and all that. But then the frontal area near the road which is
<br />what people drive past, in my opinion, is very nice now. And I think with the big tree, you
<br />know, Banyan Drive, yeah, it’s really nice. I think the plan would not make it nicer. It would,
<br />you know, just prevent me from getting to the water in one way, yeah. I’m too old to carry my
<br />boat from the parking lot. I have a dolly where I can wheel the boat; but you’re asking me to do
<br />something that’s a lot more strenuous than what I’m doing now. I would have to pass the whole
<br />beach to get to the area where there’s sand.And if there is anybody using the beach, I would
<br />have to wheel my boat past them. I don’t know how I would do that on the sand, yeah. But
<br />that’s a concern. The opposite side of the water where they were thinking of developing a boat
<br />launch, it’s a possibility, you know, if they do it. But that’s my concerns, anyway, right now.
<br />Okay, other than that I see no objections, yeah. Thank you.
<br />WOODWARD: Okay, thank you. Any questions? Okay, no, let’s see, Mr. McQuistol (sic).
<br />MACQUISTON: I’m Richard MacQuiston and I’m from -.
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