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VURICH:My name is John Vurich. I own JJs Self Storage with my wife,
<br />Jeanne. We live at 13-1152 Kahakai Street, right now, even though we have a residence
<br />in the Park. It was damaged by a storm. And were staying out of the house right now.
<br />Thats the address that we, we both -. We get our mail at another address in the Park, that
<br />doesnt make any difference, I guess, for this.
<br />SPRINGER:Thank you, sir. Youve heard the, of the application by
<br />Mr. Schneider, a Petition for Standing in a Contested Case Hearing on your application.
<br />Youve heard the discussions by the Commissioners on the matter. Do you have any
<br />comments to make regarding this application, Petition for Standing in a Contested Case?
<br />VURICH:Well, yes, I have a couple. First of all, I did contact, by telephone,
<br />Mr. Schneider, and I thought we had a very amicable conversation about how to resolve
<br />it between us, and what his issues were, and what we could do. We did this before the
<br />firstscheduledmeetingandleftwithagoodnote.Andheaskedformyphonenumberso
<br />that we could continue the conversation. The first meeting got postponed so before the
<br />second meeting I did call him again and, unfortunately, he was tied up at the time doing
<br />some yard work or something; and I asked him to give me a call, we never got together
<br />after that, until just before the second postponement and, or just after the second
<br />postponement. And then called him, again, I think it was about the second week in
<br />March and wasnt able to get through to him; but I left a message to ask to call me and
<br />see if we could resolve the issues. His issues at the time of our first meeting were
<br />primarily what hes saying he doesnt want the development to continue in the Park and
<br />all that. And the second one was during the development in the preparation of the site,
<br />its not a, its crushing land, its not real pretty, and he didnt like it. And theres a fence
<br />around the area. Until the vegetation grows up, its not very pretty. And, in fact, our
<br />existing facilities still has some areas that the vegetation hasnt grown up to make a green
<br />fence to cover the chain link, but its getting there. We talked about some possibilities to
<br />improve it, such as painting the fence black, along with the barbed wire on the top. We
<br />agreed that was a good idea; and we kind of left it at that and we never got any further.
<br />I want to make one more comment. And thats that during 2002 and 2003, I was the vice
<br />president of the Owners Association of Hawaiian Paradise Park; and I had two major
<br />agendas for being there; and that was improvement and safety of the roads, the first
<br />primary one. In January of 2003, I got a unanimous resolution passed by the Board to
<br />pave all the intersections for safety. Because there are stop lights at all the, stop signs at
<br />all intersections and theyre dirt roads; and when you try to stop on a dirt road into a stop
<br />sign, you can slide through it.
<br />We have agreed with the Commissions findings, as far as things we have to do and
<br />thats, were willing to pave the road, even though, again, the Association was supposed
<br />to have done that as a top priority to their paving funds. They didnt do that, and to this
<br />day they have not paved one intersection. They have paved the roads all the way to some
<br />of the previous directors houses. I resigned from the Board in 2003 because of that, the
<br />heat I was getting for my constituents on why this happened. And I still think the roads
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