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details of what was going to be served at the wedding reception, but the girl hadn€t yet <br />said, yes, and that sequence of dealing with the issues. <br />Now some of that has changed. I€m happy to say that there has been some additional <br />dialogue, it has been open, and finally and mutually supportive; and that€s good. <br />Because, you know, engineers deal with numbers, and with hard facts, and with a very <br />concrete visualkind of knowledge. But there are other values here that need to be taken <br />into consideration. The preservation of a feeling of harmony within the community, <br />aesthetic considerations, and considerations of who€s responsible for what€s down the <br />line, all of that needs to be part of our dialogue; and I just urge those considerations. <br />Again, thank you for hearing my testimony. <br />SPRINGER:You€re welcome. Commissioners, any questions of the testifier? <br />Commissioner Graham or -. Thank you, ma€am. Ms. Cabral? <br />CABRAL:Thank you very much for hearing me today and last month at the <br />priormeeting.Ididtestifyatthattime,andIwon€trepeatthoseissues.Ithinkthathas <br />been clearly stated. Obviously, there€s a problem in the neighborhood; and the properties <br />and this is vacant land, they did have flooding. And those properties have flooded by <br />way of, from this morning and the testimony is that they€re upstream of this property. <br />So, and if Public Works has made that determination and FEMA, I think that that€s a <br />separate issue. <br />I€m speaking on behalf of the need for commercial properties in Hilo. And as all of you <br />I€m sure are keenly aware, we€re in an economic growth period right now. And there€s a <br />high demand for commercial properties that have occurred during recently and there has <br />been very little growth in that, in terms of buildings. And I think that, I feel the real <br />estate agent€s need, and I get a lot of calls in having a nice quality building. And a <br />property of that, what is envisioned for this property will help. I think that the zoning <br />that was determined by your predecessors in that entire area has been going into being <br />commercially zoned, that this is the, there€s a need for that type of a building. There€s <br />the ability for it to be a quality building and the neighborhood is perhaps unfortunately <br />for those speaking today from the neighborhood but that is the direction of a somewhat <br />determined prior to this group being in a position by your predecessors. And, so, I€d like <br />to speak in behalf of allowing this building and this kind of growth to go forward. I am <br />going to be, hopefully, working to lease that space and we have some real quality <br />occupants that we€d be looking to put there. <br />And the realtor, they can€t help but say that while these neighbors speaking today don€t <br />want to see change in their neighborhood, growth and change is taking place, and it€s <br />really hard to not have that happen. I think that the quality of that growth and changes <br />are we can speak to and that we€ll have a quality building in that neighborhood that while <br />they may not want to sell and they may want move now, it will increase the value of their <br />property; and so should they want to sell now or in the future, they have a higher <br />financial package. It€s not, I know what they€re looking at but then in the future should <br />those lot owners now or in the future come to this group to look for a zoning change that <br />19 <br /> <br />