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COMMISSIONERS:Good morning. MATSUKAWA:Thank you, Members. Is this on? SPRINGER:Yes. MATSUKAWA:Thank you, Members of the Commission. My name is Mike Matsukawa, IÓm an attorney. My address is 75-5751 Kuakini Highway, Kailua, and IÓm here representing the Hayashi family. Cynthia Hayashi is seated to my right; and if you have questions of her, you may call on her. Essentially, the thrust of my testimony is in three areas. First is, itÓs hard to legislate good neighbor policy. The HayashiÓs first concern was in the years of being neighbors with Mr. Pace, theyÓve never really had a good neighborly policy in terms of dealing with the routine issues that inconvenience each of our lives, noise, stray animals, things like that. And it has carried over into this application because, you know, no one has ever knocked on their door and said, ÐMy name is so-and-so and we propose this project. How do you feel about it, especially if we put our entry road right along our common boundaries, when we have other available entryways that could, from an engineering standpoint, work? And when we put in our petting zoo, what do you think about peacocks or lamas? I know our peacocks have flown over into your yard in the past and youÓve had to chase them out. Do you think youÓd have any problems with a petting zoo?Ñ You know, these are the kinds of things the Commission really shouldnÓt look into legislating but itÓs part of the things we deal with in our daily community lives. So with that note, I think some of their concerns, obviously, are the nuisance impact issues, noise, dust, hours of operation. ThereÓs talk of a staging area. How early in the morning are they going to haul in their visitors and the tour vans from Kailua hotels, bang around, saddling up horses, getting people in order? Is it 6 a.m., 7 a.m.? And when are they coming down to unstage these big buses coming in? Some of these kinds of operational-type issues, I think could be addressed by the location of the entry road because itÓll naturally set some kind of a setback. The vegetation, the big trees, obviously, will lessen the noise. The other area of concern besides the operational issues, which arguably could be handled with an on-site phone contact person with immediate follow-up of complaints, is the issue addressed by Condition E, future issues that Mr. Coup also touched on. The same issue, you zone the area Village Commercial for whatÓs ther with that Village Commercial designation comes certain entitlements. So to what extent can new activity, new structures be added to the parcel in the future? Is the Condition E limiting the use to what is represented? And, so, if there is an additional use or change of use, their concern is will there be a review by either the Planning Director in which they can participate or would they have to come back for an amendment to the ordinance? Because I think thatÓs perhaps the greater issue that Mr. Coup and the HayashiÓs have 21