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How does this affect the community morale in that area? The surrounding neighbors would be confronted with death every time they smelled the smoky smell. The surrounding neighborhood would unfairly blame A Hui Hou Funeral Home for any smoky smell in the area whether they were the ‘cause of it or not. If someone had a barbecue, others in the vicinity would be thinking that a cremation is taking place. It may not affect them all the time but what if they just lost a loved one? Would they be thinking could that be the loved one they just lost? The surrounding community should not be put through this kind of ordeal. Where is the right place to put a crematory? Cremation is becoming more and more popular around the entire country. Hawai`i has the highest cremation rate at 67.5 percent. More and more cremation businesses are being proposed. Planning Commission meetings are the heated battleground for communities that are opposed to crematories being placed in Commercial and Residential zoning districts. Planning Commissions around the country are seeing that they can save the community and themselves a lot of limit crematories to industrial areas that are 500 to 600 feet stress and time if they away from the nearest residence. San Rafael County, San Diego County, Los Angeles County have adopted these guidelines to name a few places. A solution. The solution I would like to offer is for A Hui Hou Funeral Home to obtain a Use Permit for an off-site warehouse in an industrial area to perform their cremations. Their crematory will be in the proper place and will have less adverse effect on their surrounding neighbors. I know it was mentioned that Dodo Mortuary and Borthwick Mortuary are located in centers of towns, but there is a difference here. They were there first, if you take a look. Dodo was there for 100 years and Borthwick at least 50 years. So, it’s not like they moved into the neighborhood. It’s pretty much they were there first, so I think that’s the difference there. Also, I do have a little folder here of just pictures of the area as well as some, an EPA study that was teamed up with the Cremation Association of North America. And in the study they have graphs and on the graphs there are numbers. And to say that only hot air comes out of the stacks out of crematories is exactly that’s what it is. It’s a lot of hot air to say that it’s hot air. If you look at the numbers, you’ll see “particulate matter.” What is “particulate matter?” It is ash. If you look at the graphs, you’ll see one that says, “smoke.” So there is smoke, maybe a little. They work really well but they’re not 100 percent. There are certain cases where you will get black smoke coming out of the stack. If you put an obese, a very obese person in a very hot retort, the machine will not be able to process that amount of fuel. And, so, it just gets over-run and you get black smoke. Not that A Hui Hou would ever do that ‘cause, you know, they just wouldn’t do that. But if the machine breaks, you get the same effect. If the machine is turned off for whatever reason, a timer is accidentally done incorrectly, you’ll get that effect, you may get that effect. EXHIBIT D 23