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YUEN:It’s just legalese.
<br />ALAMEDA:It’s a fancy term. I wanted to make sure we all know what that meant.
<br />IWASHITA:It’s redundant.
<br />GALDONES:All that means is to stop.
<br />ALAMEDA:Just stop. Okay. Commissioner Graham, any other thoughts on that or
<br />any potential proposal on the table?
<br />GRAHAM:Well, I’m kind of following up what I was saying before. You know, the
<br />other Commissioners did vote for this other operation on the other side of the highway and didn’t
<br />ask them to “cease and desist.” So, you know, I’m kind of in a position, it seems to me we need
<br />to decide do we want to have him shut down operation here or not, first; and then if we decide
<br />we want him to do it, then we come up with a timeline. But, I mean, to me, it feels like he has
<br />been forthcoming and, you know, going at this the right way; and he is obviously willing to
<br />make efforts to make it better. So, you know, given his situation, I’m not so sure, and given our
<br />history with these things, I’m not so sure I want to say you should cease and desist. Maybe he
<br />can make this palatable is what I feel like.
<br />ALAMEDA:Okay. Other Commissioners feel the same way or differently?
<br />Commissioner Iwashita?
<br />IWASHITA:Thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess seems like there are several concerns that
<br />have been addressed; and, to me, the bottom line is, and the most important thing is Mr.
<br />McNicoll’s business, part of what he’s doing and not so much his hobby, you know. ‘Cause that,
<br />those, in my mind the way I was taught to think, you know, you put things in the boxes that they
<br />belong in; and it seems to me that those are two different boxes. So as far as his business
<br />operation and, you know, Commissioner Graham is correct, his delivery business is essentially
<br />along the lines of the same trucking business that we approved in Waimea in Ag land. And it
<br />seems, the representation is that although you would think there’ll be more existing places
<br />available for Mr. McNicoll to run his business, his representation is that there aren’t anything
<br />financially feasible for him to move to. And I guess what I’m seeing the application asking is to
<br />approve his being able to keep his delivery vehicles over, you know, store them overnight on this
<br />property, have his employees come to the property, start out their runs, and come back in the
<br />evening, and then do oil changes and check the spark plugs and those kind of things, wash the
<br />vehicles, maintain them on site. And it’s not to do any kind of mechanical repairing, not drop
<br />trans and do those kind of things on site, which are basically what we approved with certain
<br />conditions in the Waimea situation. So, to that extent, I have to agree with Commissioner
<br />Graham that, you know, it’s very similar and the circumstances are similar. Well, they’re not the
<br />same because in the Waimea situation the operator had an industrial site from which he was
<br />operating where he was being evicted and couldn’t find another site; and, so, he wanted to use
<br />this land that he had purchased in Waimea to do that. Right?
<br />So that’s how I see it. And then the concerns about the junk yard part of it, I guess, those to me
<br />should be just dealt with in the ordinary, the way that the Department ordinarily deals with that,
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