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current lack of parking for this building. We provide Medical Services in this community, to all members of this community, and must have additional parking places for our patients. Our ability to provide good patient care is hampered by this limited parking. The zoning change to allow the adjacent area to be used as a parking lot is very important to us and to all of our patients.” Thank you. GRAHAM: All right, thank you. Any questions from Commissioners? All right. CABRAL: Okay, and the next one is from George Karvas who is with Hilo Community Pharmacy, which is also located at the surgical center. And he states, “We the staff of the Hilo Community Pharmacy would like to have more parking available for all of our customers. We appreciate your consideration as a Planning Commission in this matter in making this adjacent area a parking lot for our growing community. Sincerely, Hilo Pharmacy Staff and George Karvas.” GRAHAM: All right. Carry on. CABRAL: Okay. My next letter is from Dr. Karen Nakamoto, MD who she is writing on behalf of both herself as a medical gynecologist and obstetrics doctor there at the Surgical Center and her husband Dr. Raymond Lee. And she says, “Thank you for allowing me to make a statement. As one of the physicians caring for patients in the Punahele Professional Building, my patients have been affected by the limited parking. They have needed to walk from outside the immediate area and at times I have had patients tell me they have been unable to make their appointments because they cannot walk that far. Availability of adjacent parking would allow us to have people working in the building park nearby or park in the additional new parking, not increasing the traffic flow through the day, but only at the beginning and end of the day, and it would open up many more spaces close to the building for our patients. Thank you for your consideration. Dr. Karen Nakamoto.” GRAHAM: Go ahead. CABRAL: Okay, and my last one for someone else is from Dr. Leong, D.D.S., who’s a dentist at, again, the Surgical Center location. “I am writing to support the zoning change to allow the adjacent parking lot to be the Punahele Professional Building employee parking area. I am a tenant in this medical setting and I know that patients coming to our building lack adequate parking for their medical appointments. So the zoning change to allow the parking lot would help alleviate some hardship for sick patients coming to appointments in the building. Additionally, my understanding is that the adjacent parking would only be used by employees of the building between the working hours,” well, it would be 6 “till probably 6; and, therefore, the lot would be partially secured and have minimal impact on the neighborhood during those working hours. Sincerely or thank you, Dr. Wayne S. H. Leong, D.D.S.” Thank you. GRAHAM: All right, thank you. You have anything further at all? CABRAL: My own. Okay, this is myself, Nancy Cabral, writing on behalf of, I guess, a large number of people, not just in that building but also in our community. Part of our zoning change we have over 1,000 names that have been signed. And I’m speaking in support of the rezoning request by Punhale Professional Building. EXHIBIT C 11