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it has taken me three light changes to get out of my driveway some mornings. So I think <br />the idea that the traffic is not a significant issue is not correct. I just dont believe thats <br />true, so I wouldnt want you to overlook that. <br />I think theres two big issues here. One is the residence in question, which is what youre <br />here to address. And Im concerned about that also, but I think theres a bigger issue than <br />probably the reason I personally am more concerned about this change in zoning as for <br />how its going to affect the whole neighborhood in the future. This particularbusiness, <br />my wife would disagree with me here but -, may not be that huge an impact and make a <br />big change to the neighborhood. I hope it doesnt if it is approved. And I would concede <br />that in my opinion it may not make a big difference, but one another business moving in <br />there with it may. And plus, you know, even though he says hes going to be there for 30 <br />years, plans change and we dont know what might come therein the future. And Im <br />more concerned about whats going to happen in the whole neighborhood, and probably <br />mybiggestconcernisthechangeintheGeneralPlan.AndIthinktheideathatthe <br />residents in that area support the change in the General Plan is blatantly false from what <br />Ive seen. Weve walked two streets and talked to every resident there and none of them <br />were aware of it; and none of them that I talked to like the idea. And in the letters we got <br />back from what my wife sent out and the two or three people that have called us and <br />talked to us about it, none of them were aware it was changed. In fact they thought they <br />still lived in an area designated residential, and they were upset by it and they did not like <br />it. I did hear the one lady that my wife talked about that is a member of the kumiai and, I <br />guess, theres more than one kumiai group in that neighborhood. There was, I think the <br />person that just testified talked about lower kumiai. So I presume this person is from the <br />upper kumiai, because she referred to the area around Big Island Candies as the <br />neighborhood there. The kumiai in that area were not against that. But the kumiai that <br />she belonged to, which is in the area were talking about now, I think the line is of the <br />Lanikaula Street that runs, no, the airport road, whatever that, thats Lanikaula, maybe it <br />is, I dont know, I just know airport road. But that road there, I think, is the dividing line <br />from what I heard. Now this is just recent talking with neighbors. I dont know that I <br />fully understand what that is. But it seems to me the kumiai that existed in the area <br />where we are was very much against businesses moving into the area and was against Big <br />Island Candies but they felt they really just shouldnt say anything about it when that <br />came because of the fact that that wasnt their area. <br />So I just dont think some of the notions that people have about what the neighborhood, <br />what the people in that neighborhood think and want are true; and I think you ought to <br />take that into consideration in your considerations for this particular situation and for the <br />changes made in the General Plan. Cause I think the changes made in the General Plan <br />are very much against the communitys wishes of the community that Ive talked to in <br />that area and what weve gotten back from the letters we sent out. And I think that <br />covers what I wanted to say. Thank you. <br />GALDONES:Thank you, M. Rhoades. Commissioners, any questions of <br />Mr. Rhoades? Commissioner Salavea. <br />14EXHIBIT A <br /> <br />