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and breakfast that was grandfathered in. It’s a little higher density than what you’re proposing but the impacts are very large. But just even water delivery, the Waterman truck going down, these are all one-lane, I mean, maybe it’s 1-1/2, 12 feet, I don’t know, but you can’t even pass two passenger cars on this road without one having to pull over. So having the Waterman truck come and deliver is an impact and, yes, some of that can be mitigated by delivering lots and lots of water at once. I mean, but I think that you do have to recognize that that is an impact on a small one-lane dead-end road. I don’t doubt that if these people had to have often water deliveries that they probably would put another water tank in, and maybe some of this stuff can be mitigated. But I think that there needs to be some recognition that people who live in Mauna Loa Estates, who live in areas of bed and breakfasts, are concerned and do have complaints about the bed breakfasts. For instance, if someone is looking for a lot or a house, people make sure it’s not near one of the bed and breakfasts. For instance, a person wouldn’t buy a lot on th 6 Street because of the bed and breakfast that’s there and the impacts that there are. A lot of people in Mauna Loa Estates have had bought up adjacent lots because it is a fairly, although it’s zoned half-acre -. When all those half-acre lots are built on, that’s going to be pretty high density. So there’s an effort in the community to try and decrease the density voluntarily. So that’s an issue. I think another issue has been that people bought and built in that neighborhood believing that it would be single-family homes, and having a four-room bed and breakfast is not a single-family home. And, I guess, I would just then read my statement, which is, I am concerned, I didn’t receive a letter. I heard about it from another neighbor. I took the day off work to come. And I agree that, and there are a number of bed and breakfasts in Volcano; and on one hand that does help the economy, and I do support that. On the other hand, it has been at the expense of neighborhood subdivisions and quality of life. And there is a difference between bed and breakfasts and vacation rentals. I mean, there are a many, many vacation rentals in Volcano, and these tend to be one car, one group, one unit; and that has a much better impact than a bed and breakfast that’s going to have four rooms. It’s four units and potentially could have four cars and four groups. There has been a big issue with bed and breakfasts and leaf blowers because I think people are concerned about liability and ohia leaves on mossy sidewalks. There’s a high level of noisy activity that seems to surround these businesses. And, I guess, those th specific concerns, I’m sorry, it’s maybe repetitive but above Pearl Street, 10, is narrow, it’s short, it dead-ends. Two passenger cars cannot pass easily, one has to pull over. And the potential impact of four extra vehicles on the road, if there was a 100 percent occupancy, is going to have an impact. Mauna Loa Estates has private roads, you’re on the road committee I think that we all pay into that road fund, you pay in per lot; and your assumption is that these are single- family dwellings and so that your impact on the roads is going to be as a single-family 9