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please come up. Jojo, IÓm sorry. Could you raise your right hand, please? Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on the matter now before the Planning Commission? TANIMOTO: I do. HOUSEL: Thank you. Could you state your name and address? TANIMOTO: My legal name is Josephine Tanimoto. P. O. Box 44337, Kawaihae. I go by Jojo. HOUSEL: Okay, thank you, Jojo. Would you like to make your com TANIMOTO: Yes, please. Actually, I like the idea of having the restaurant. And I can see that Kawaihae is now growing, so itÓs kind of exciting. But I really need to help these people that want to get into Kawaihae by improving the infrastructure. One of the things that is very dear to Hawaiian people is the trail. So that would be one. And I bring that up because IÓm happy to see that your motion says with conditions. So we are, IÓm looking forward to maybe your body helping direct and help regulate what needs to get done, so that they can move in here. The thing about looking at a picture like this is that the road, the highway, Akoni-Pule Highway, looks straight; itÓs very deceiving because if you had a van, it would give you a different perspective of what this place looks like, and that is itÓs on a bend of the road, so there is a sight-distance problem on both ends. The other thing about that is enough parking. IÓm happy to say that Kawaihae is so populated at the restaurants we donÓt have enough parking, and that is primary. So I did get to talk with the gentlemen that have my testimony and IÓm happy with what they are doing, excepting parking. Like Mr. Veincent behind me says, they have 300 or so membership. ThereÓs parking problems as is. And with the parking problems, then youÓre going to have the traffic problems, then youÓre going to have the bicycles and the motorcycles and all that along. So with your motion with conditions, IÓm hoping that you will help the community by including these concerns as well. Thank you very much. HOUSEL: Thank you. Commissioners, do you have any questions? Okay. Thank you very much. Mr. Moore and Mr. Acree, would you like to return? YouÓre still sown in. B. MOORE: Yes. A couple of things. LetÓs go on reverse order, if I can, and end up with the trails. With respect to parking, we understand that as a, is an issue. And if we are not successful in parking, we are not going to be a successful restaurant. Right now, our parking plan is about two and a half times what the minimum County requirements are. We know that there is no parking on Akoni-Pule Highway and, you know, there is no place to park there, so we need to accommodate it on site. And we have ways weÓre looking at Î again, thatÓs part of the reasons we are downsizing Î we have options to do valet parking, if we get busy, and then you can really accommodate a lot of parking that way. So itÓs something that w have to take care of. With respect to sight distance, as I said, weÓve been working with DOT for over a year and a half on this. The very first thing we did before we bid on the property, or actually during our due diligence period, we had a sight distance analysis done. And weÓre, the northern 40 percent of 17 EXHIBIT A