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GRAHAM: Well, she’s kind of speaking in that way but -. RHO: Okay. I’ll hold my questions. GRAHAM: Thank you. All right, well, you all can sit back now then. Thank you for coming forward with your thoughts. V. REIS: Excuse me, Mr. Chair. GRAHAM: Did you have public testimony to give, Ma’am? V. REIS: Yes. GRAHAM: Would you like to come forward? Okay, and would you raise your right hand. And do you swear or affirm to tell the truth before the Commission today on this matter? V. REIS: Yes. GRAHAM: Okay. And if you could just be seated, use the microphone, and start off with your name and address, and go ahead and give us your testimony. Thanks. V. REIS: Hello, my name Vianne Reis, and I reside at 65 Punahele Street. And I’m here on behalf of Cheryl Reis who’s in the hospital right now. What I’d like to say is that the residents of Punahele Street oppose the rezoning. One of the reasons is because it’s in violation of Ordinance 95-33 which prohibits vehicles from accessing that lot. And I believe the Planning Director is aware of the citations that they have received in violation of that ordinance by continuing to use it as a parking lot. There was supposed to have been a planting screen along the mauka side of their lot which hasn’t been done. And that was supposed to give, you know, screening so we’d have some privacy and to prevent cars from driving in and out of the lot. Since then, and since after they were told that they can’t use it as a parking lot, it has still been used. The gate is unlocked, people have been driving in there with their cars. When the gate is locked or unlocked people climb over the fences. And there’s a gap between Margie’s property and her fence, and people come from the surgical area down through that gap and access Punahele Street through her yard. And there’s a lot of people there as far as the, you know, obscene things. A lot of people bring their animals, and they come along the back area where the planting is on the mauka side and the gap to both Margie Gushiken’s side of her property and Cheryl Reis’s, and they have their dogs urinating, defecating onto our property through the fence, stuff like that. If you allow this rezoning we just see it as a continuing violation of Ordinance 95-33. And, you know, there’s nothing to stop them from putting a 7-Eleven or anything else there. And, yes, we do have traffic on Punahele Street, but we have it on one side. With the parking lot, we’ll have it on the backside. And if you allow that strip to be turned into a parking lot, then we’ll have it on three sides of our property. Thank you. GRAHAM: Thank you. Any questions from the Commissioners? All right, thank you for coming forward. Would the applicant/applicant’s representative please come forward. EXHIBIT C 14