2022-09-01 Windward Exh C (Item 3 Kunimoto PL-SPP-2022-000015)

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S. SAKATA: I'm Steve Sakata. We live right next door 1617 Mele Manu Street. You have a letter that we submitted. But let me just touch up on some highlights in that letter. There are also some photographs that should be in your record that shows Mr. Kunimoto and the neighbors there and there's another photograph of Mr. Kunimoto and our house that's right next door. It's very uncomfortable testifying against our neighbor because we have to live with them after all this is done. But the Covenant does say that there is no commercial business that is allowed in this area and so he has been doing this for 17 years now without a permit and we assumed he had a permit. Just because we know him personally, he coached our daughter, we worked with his parents really well, we worked in tournaments and all that and we just trusted him and he's a good friend. And so, when we found out that he didn't have a permit and he's applying for a Special Permit. Over the years, we've been trying to talk to him about the noise and the traffic and he always would give us, he'll say okay, we'll work on it. He'll do things like he'd cut down his schedule for a few days and he goes right back up to 9:30. 7:00 o'clock in the morning to 9:30 at night, 7 days a week and it got to be really frustrating. Somebody told me that Randy had told her that he doesn't want to talk to me anymore about my concerns about the noise and traffic. So, it's very frustrating that we couldn't talk to him anymore. Like Dr. Lee Loy had said that the traffic has been getting worse and worse over the 17 years. He's doing really well. He's really a good coach, his business just grew and grew and grew and we've been talking to him all this time. But it just kept growing and it is getting out of hand. He says there's eight(8) students per class and there's 8 classes but what you don't understand is if there's 8 students, 8 cars come up. Four(4) cars out of the 8 drop-off students and 4 cars goes down. In about 45 minutes later at least 4 come up to pick to their kids and then 8 goes down and then there's another 8 coming up. So, you have 80 to 100 cars all day and if you look at the picture this one here, the cul-de-sac. When these players drive into his driveway, they come up upon our side of the driveway of the cul-de-sac. They don't make a nice safe turn; they go right in front of our driveway. So, sometimes we have to realty be careful how we come out of our driveway because the cars come up to in front of our driveway. And there are times when a lot of cars get backed up because of, I don't know, the timing of it. There are three (3) cars dropping off kids in the cul-de-sac which is illegal and they're waiting for the other cars to come out and so that bottleneck at our cul-de-sac gets really bad. Because it's a dead-end street, right. And Randy as I recall, in the paper that he submitted, and another customer said that he has an alternate site that he is giving lessons at. So, with that, I'm thinking why he doesn't use the alternate site for all of his classes and stuff instead of in a residential area. At any rate, he says that he puts up signs, slow down, don't tailgate. But they tailgate and they don't slow down. We got humps put in but, they speed between the humps and sometimes they just zoom right over the hump. As Dr. Lee Loy said, we walk our dogs down the street, we got hit almost a couple of times and had to yell at them because they're not paying attention. They make a turn; they go make a wide turn and we are walking our dogs. That's why, I explained all that to Randy and no improvement at all and so it gets more frustrating, more frustrating and the sound. I read the report from the Planning Commission recommendation about Randy will work on the sound but, 5 EXHIBIT C