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there something that would tie you to that location if you found something suitable, say, seven, or ten, or fifteen miles away? KNIGHT:All three of the properties you mentioned there, the Jeffs Affordable Automobile Repair, I had, prior to leaving that business location, I had discussed with the property owner, Mike Metcalf -. SIRACUSA:Yeah. KNIGHT:Is the owner, discussed with him the possibility of leasing it when he was aware that Jeff Moore was going to move out. He wanted to go up considerably and doubling the square footage rental price and making it fairly unfeasible for a 600-square foot small steel building. He had wanted me to put up another half of a building and pay, you know, put up the monies to put up the other second half of a building and then also pay the over $3.00 a square foot.Sothatbecameunfeasibletome.ThebuildingisstillnotinusethatIknowof,otherthan for storage right now; and he had chosen to not lease it out to another automobile repair shop and just retain the building for his own use. Steve Chase was also consulted almost four years ago, both in the old Pahoa Hardware Store and when he moved to his new location. And we looked at getting into the new location in the new Pahoa Village and, basically, Lex Brodies just beat me out on that. They already had a, even four years ago they had had a signed contract with the Chases, before the development even began; and I was not privy to the information. And in their contract they had it written up to where no other businesses would be allowed to move in there that are doing competitive work. SPRINGER:Thank you, Mr. Knight. Id just like to ask for the Commissioners, while this market information and background is interesting, is it proper for us to take into consideration the conduct of the particular, an individual applicant, or are we supposed be looking at the merit of the activity of the land? YUEN:Well, actually, part of the rationale for allowing it within a special permit is that its difficult or impossible to find sites that are zoned, so I have no problem with this line of questioning. SPRINGER:Okay, thank you. Thank you. KNIGHT:May I also mention the items on the list there that I had looked at are only a portion of the many other available pieces of land, both that were zoned correctly and would have like a residential house on it, or they werent zoned correctly. And we looked at maybe purchasing one to three acres of land up to $200,000 and then hopefully having it rezoned, which was, is a little scary from a business standpoint of spending that kind of money and being committed, you know, to make monthly payments or annual payments of x in hopes of being granted a rezoning. SPRINGER:Thank you. Commissioner Siracusa. SIRACUSA:Any my final question to you which I had already asked but you havent answered yet -. 8EXHIBIT B