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Lunakanawai and John Shick. Gentlemen, please raise your right hand. Do you swear or <br />affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Hawaii Planning Commission? <br />TESTIFIERS:I do. <br />FUJIKAWA:Thank you. Start off with you, John. State your full name and <br />your address? <br />SHICK:My name is John Shick, and I need to make a correction. I’m not <br />the president of the Village Association.I’m the General Manager. My residence is <br />68-3513 Makana Aloha Place, Waikoloa, Hawaii. I’m representing the community <br />association. We have an association presently of 2,500 homes, both condominiums and <br />single-family structures, primarily single-family homes; and we are growing in leaps and <br />bounds. At any time right now we have at least 70 homes under construction. So <br />developers are coming in because of the price of the real estate right now. And we have <br />approximately, in the next couple of years we have approximately another 800 to 900 <br />units on the horizon. There’s another 2,000 units possibly on the horizon for a property <br />that was in bankruptcy; and there’s now, I understand, actually been bought 866 acres, <br />which is also already approved for residential development. And those are all properties <br />that will eventually be part of the Village. We’ll have a lot of people there. <br />We have absolutely no commercial or commercially-developable land. It’s all residential <br />land. We desperately need a place where we can have storage facilities, shops. Right <br />now we have shops in garages in the Village, which is technically illegal. We have no <br />place else for these people to go. We have boats there parked in plain view that are <br />higher than the buildings that they belong to or the houses that they belong to. That is not <br />allowed under our covenants. We have no place for them to go. We can’t tell them, the <br />only place that there is is down Honokohau Harbor, or wherever else you can find a place <br />that may not be secure. A secure facility is something we desperately need. We have a <br />very dire deep need for this facility; and that’s why we have engaged Bay Pacific to build <br />this facility and to run it for us. Thank you. <br />FUJIKAWA:Thank you. Commissioners, any questions with Mr. Shick? Go <br />ahead, Graham? <br />GRAHAM:Mr. Shick, you said we don’t have any commercial facilities now, <br />but there is. Right in the Village there’s a supermarket, there are restaurants, there’s <br />other stuff there, right? <br />SHICK:That does not belong to us. That’s a separate private entity, and <br />we have no control over that. Unfortunately, I would love to own that little shopping <br />center. I think it could be a little gold mine. But the way it’s operated, the rents are so <br />steep that nobody can go in there. They have a lot of empty space. But we have no <br />control over it. <br />9 <br /> <br />