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its heresy. And, the second thing was that, I found out that all of this kumiai members <br />were taken by the people who were proposing this program, allthe whips and big time <br />guys in Hilo took them to the Nihon Restaurant, and wined and dined them to get their <br />support. Okay, thats how the kumiai was not involved in that Hilo Candies project. <br />Okay? <br />Now Ill begin my own thing. I think Mr. Delozier is a very nice gentleman. Hes a very <br />nice person. And youre correct, were not here about discussing whos nice and whos <br />not nice. Were here to discuss whats best for the community, okay, and for the people <br />who live there, the people who own the properties and so forth. Thats the decision that <br />needs to be made. And for the, I know that some of you have heard all this before. But <br />for the sake of the people who missed the testimony last week, the power brokers along <br />with the blessings of the County Council had been successful in maneuvering the <br />residential/commercial mix land use designation into the General Plan. And I was there <br />tobuckit,soImnotsittingbackwaitingforsomebodyelsetodothething.Thisasinine <br />classification challenges the very foundation of sound city planning and will only breed <br />the destruction and decay in the quality of life of individuals impacted by the planning <br />decisions. Its already happening on Manono Street and the rest of the Waiakea <br />Houselots because of this new designation. <br />You only need to take an excursion to the Waiakea Houselots area to witness the mess <br />the land use designation has caused and will continue to cause in neighborhoods <br />designated commercial residential mix. Heaven help the people whose lands get <br />designated in that mix category. All this destruction is being perpetrated. At the same <br />time our politicians are heralding the need for reasonably priced rentals and for <br />affordable housing purchases. All the older homes that were going for cheaper rents, and <br />people were buying some of them as residences, are no longer going to be there. Most of <br />them are now bulldozed and waiting for the kind of building permits that youre going to <br />see a battle for every one of them. The commercial residential mix has effectively <br />destroyed many affordable rental homes. Where is there concern now for affordable <br />housing, reasonably priced rentals? This mix is effectively destroying the huge potential <br />for housing in the area. Its a boon to the real estate people because the houses are going <br />to move, just like they did in Los Angeles when they did the house busting by moving a <br />colored person into a white neighborhood and everybody started to sell out. Well, theyre <br />doing this in the Waiakea Houselots with this zoning mix. They couldnt do it through <br />the General Plan so they went ahead and, initially, but then they developed this new mix <br />category, residential commercial mix category and that destroyed all what we did to <br />change the General Plan into Low Density. <br />My parents purchased the property I live on some 70 years ago. Well, we had, when <br />they did so they had reasonable expectations of a good life for themselves and their <br />children; and Im one of the children. With the advent of the commercial residential mix, <br />the land use designation, this expectation has effectively been destroyed. The destruction <br />is not simply by accident but by a design by those who developed and supported this <br />classification. History will bear witness to this statement. I guarantee you it will bear <br />witness. This commercial residential land use mix by design is the catalyst for creating <br />23EXHIBIT A <br /> <br />