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ALAMEDA:Is there any way to dispose of it so that it doesn’t become an eyesore to the
<br />neighbors or -?
<br />MCNICOLL:You can dispose of it but that’s, you know, that’s my things. What am I
<br />going to do?
<br />ALAMEDA:Oh. Commissioner Watanabe, you were asking that ‘cause you were
<br />thinking that, what were you thinking, ‘cause like it’s more visible and -?
<br />WATANABE:I was thinking, well, I was thinking that he has been there for, what, 10-15
<br />years and now it has come up, and generally comes up because you had one complaint, not
<br />because we went out there looking for it. And I’m thinking that over those 10 or 15 years, you
<br />know, you accumulated all this and people are going like, “Where’s the end to that,” and then
<br />they finally ran out of patience. And I’m thinking that that’s the root of possibly all this. Maybe
<br />not so much, you know, five vans going in and out of his two-acre lot, but the fact that, you
<br />know, you have 16 Peter Builts sitting there, and God knows how many are on the way.
<br />ALAMEDA:Okay. So, I have a question, then that sparks a question from me real
<br />quick. So this application, Mr. Nishimura, is this a storage, is this a baseyard, is this a -, what is
<br />the proposal again?
<br />NISHIMURA:Well, we didn’t necessarily know how to characterize it, but that was the
<br />description that was utilized by the Planning Department in the violation letter that was sent to
<br />Mr. McNicoll. It is true that he does store non-operating personal property on this parcel and
<br />that, as Commissioner Watanabe has indicated, you know, the accumulation of these vehicles
<br />and other material has been a problem; and, admittedly, it is, you know, an eyesore to the
<br />community.
<br />ALAMEDA:Okay. And, again, Commissioner Rho, you’ve got to get on that record.
<br />Commissioner Rho, you have something to add? Any questions?
<br />RHO:First of all, I’m not familiar with, you know, the property at all. I don’t
<br />live in Hilo. But it seems like it’s sloping because there’s a drainage thing that goes up, based on
<br />that diagram. Right? Isn’t the mountain on the bottom or the hill on the bottom?
<br />NISHIMURA:No, it -.
<br />RHO:Well, maybe the question that I really have is what trees would you cut
<br />and where are the trees?
<br />NISHIMURA:The driveway is situated on the northern end of the property. There’s a
<br />curve that, actually, you can see it better on this map where it comes around this way. There are
<br />trees that are planted on this border of his property that he could cut down that would allow them
<br />to see through that curve up to this point.
<br />ALAMEDA:Commissioner Rho?
<br />RHO:So how does the road, which way does the road slope based on that map?
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