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TESTIFIERS:I do. <br />WATANABE:Okay. Thank you. Which one of you wants to go first? <br />NAKAKURA:I’ll go first. <br />WATANABE:Okay, would you state your name and address for our record? <br />NAKAKURA:Hello. My name is Shaun Nakakura. I live at 77-110B Kalaniuka <br />Street in Holualoa 96725. I am part owner of Cremation Services of West Hawai`i. My <br />company and A Hui Hou Funeral Home, if allowed to open their own, if allowed to have <br />their own crematory facility, will be in direct competition. I’m not here as a competing <br />business. I’m here today as an informed member of the community who knows first hand <br />what it is like to be in the surrounding area of a crematory. If the proposed site was in the <br />proper area, I would not be here before you. <br />the granting of the <br />As an informed member of the community, I would like to state <br />proposed use will ‘cause substantial adverse impact to the community’s character <br />and to surrounding properties. <br />My goal today is to present the Planning Commission with information that tells the other <br />side of the story. The more information you have, the better decision you can make. <br />How I got involved with this? <br /> I became alarmed when I noticed the sign in the front of <br />their A Hui Hou Funeral Home facility that the County requires to inform surrounding <br />businesses and residences. On the sign there was no mention of a crematory being added. <br />All it said was that the “ADDITION OF EQUIPMENT” was being proposed. No <br />mention of the additional equipment being a crematory. The purpose of the sign is to <br />inform the public of exactly what is being added, otherwise, why have a sign? I felt it <br />was vague and started inquiring what the surrounding property owners were being told. I <br />also wanted to find out if accurate information was getting to the people who would be <br />affected the most, the people who work and live in the area. I was surprised to find out <br />that people who lease offices in the surrounding area had no idea what was going on. No <br />one was required to tell them. The owners were not filtering the information down to <br />their tenants. <br />What all the surrounding properties were being told? <br /> The surrounding properties, <br />owners were told that these “state of the art” machines are smokeless and odorless. <br />They’re being told that “they will not even know that a cremation is being performed.” <br />sell <br />These statements are made by the people who these machines. A Hui Hou Funeral <br />Home is just reiterating what the sales people are saying. <br />Have you ever purchased a product that was guaranteed to work a certain way only to <br />find out that that was not the case? We have a similar situation here. Salespeople are <br />telling A Hui Hou Funeral Home that these machines are smokeless and odorless. <br />EXHIBIT D <br />21 <br /> <br />