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ALAMEDA:Okay. Commissioner McCall, follow-up to that? <br />MCCALL:No, that€s it. <br />ALAMEDA:Okay, Commissioner Siracusa. <br />SIRACUSA:Yes. Looking at that map and the blank area on the upper left that you say <br />is being set aside for future parking, I look at that and then I look at the garden park-like area on <br />the lower right which seems to be to my naked eye to be considerably smaller, and that€s an area <br />where there are already two homes. And I was wondering if Big Island Candies had considered <br />keeping the homes there, since we do have an affordable housing shortage in Hilo, and using the <br />big blank upper left-hand portion as a combination park-like garden and parking as well. In <br />other words, so you can have both of everything, if that had been considered; and if not then, you <br />know, what were the reasons why that wasn€t considered as an option? <br />ALAMEDA:Mr. Tsukazaki? <br />TSUKAZAKI:Yes. Two things, first of all, the plan is to make the Kekuanaoa Street <br />fromavisualperspectiveaverypleasantone,averyaestheticone.Sothat€swhylandscapingis <br />envisioned there. Also, if you€ve been to their retail center, there€s no place for people to sit and <br />have coffee and have a cookie. So there have been some suggestions, you know, to eventually <br />have an area, a rest area. Some of the people, many of the people actually who visit the property <br />are on tours and they€re brought in on tour busses; and so the idea was to eventually plan an area <br />where people could sit and take a break and have, you know, have something to eat before <br />moving on. There€s no immediate plans to demolish those dwellings. One of the Big Island <br />employees, actually, rents one of those homes. The other one is in a rental pool that€s managed <br />by a real property management agency. But that is something that is not as immediate as being <br />able to create the production and storage building because that€s a rather urgent need. As to <br />whether, you know, single family dwellings or other kind of dwelling structures should be <br />located to the back area, I don€t recall that we€ve had any conversation about that. <br />SIRACUSA:No, you had me backwards. <br />TSUKAZAKI:I€m sorry. <br />SIRACUSA:Okay. What I was talking about was retaining the single families where <br />they are now and moving that garden area where people could relax and have a cup of coffee and <br />a cookie to the big blank upper left portion which you€re saying will be future parking. Because <br />since it€s larger than that lower right portion it seemed to me that you would have room for both <br />there, that you would have room for parking and there would be an area there where people <br />could sit under a tree and have some refreshments. That€s what I was talking about. <br />TSUKAZAKI:Okay. The parking, again, I mean, I think your suggestion is definitely, <br />you know, worthwhile discussing with Big Island Candies as to the future design there. But I <br />wanted to be clear the parking area for the back open area that we€re talking about was to be an <br />area where they could move employee parking right now. Because where it is right behind the <br />building, it€s an inadequate area. And so they€d like to concentrate all of the employee parking <br />19EXHIBIT C <br /> <br />