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don’t think Public Works or the Planning Department is trying to make it more difficult
<br />on you. It’s just that it fits better for overall traffic flow, especially considering the
<br />increased traffic should this rezoning go through.
<br />ALAMEDA: Any other questions for our applicants or Mr. Hansen?
<br />Okay, seeing none, we do have a testifier. So I can ask you to be seated at this time.
<br />Okay, we have Aunty, Aunty Dorothy Hirowatari. Please come forward.
<br />HIROWATARI: I know that she’s -.
<br />NOMURA: Microphone.
<br />ALAMEDA: They’ve got to get everything on the microphone. That way we
<br />don’t need to take minutes.
<br />HIROWATARI: I swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth.
<br />ALAMEDA: We’ve already sworn you in. We’ve got your address so go ahead,
<br />Mrs. Hirowatari.
<br />HIROWATARI: Okay. Now I think, when my friends and I had the land, and now
<br />it’s quit-claim deed to me, that 556 and 556A. During the last month they’ve been
<br />speeding along and they’ve been getting the graders to go there. And I’ve seen old cars
<br />and stuff in there. And I did talk to her mother a long time ago, Mrs. Hara, please help.
<br />I did, you know, help cut the trees in between, those big lousy trees. And now you’ve got
<br />about five African Tulip trees which if she’d help me get rid of it -. I went there about
<br />two times, talked to her mother directly. Then lately I found out looking at her, you
<br />know, letterhead that she works for Chris Brilhante. And I was going to ask Chris
<br />Brilhante, are you involved with her in the development? But I had no chance. I was
<br />going for a doctor’s checkup that afternoon, too old.
<br />Anyway, going back to the problems I’ve seen, and I feel sorry for the Planning
<br />Director’s cause he has got to approve those plans. And I’m wanting you right now to
<br />ask her truthfully did she ever go and get these grading things corrected? I did talk to
<br />someone who she probably retained, maybe it was this gentleman, I don’t know,
<br />somebody was with a bulldozer. I said, you know, I’m a former realtor, would you go
<br />back and talk with the family to see if they had done all they did to correct this? I go to
<br />Star Bucks often and I run into people that are very much, you know, talking about the
<br />global warming, talking about cleaning of toxic. And so I did see batteries, tires, junk
<br />cars; and now when you go, I don’t think you’ll see because they have already brought in,
<br />you know, fillers there. And the place that I think is a problem is not on Manono, it’s
<br />more on Hinano where I live. The front house is my interest. And we used to have
<br />people go through the bushes and break into our houses. They come through the back
<br />yard and when I’m not there they’ll go and take some, couple of beers, and go there. So
<br />it has been a problem. But now if you go, it’s nicely done. But I think it’s illegal things
<br />that are going on. If you want to do any kind of planning, give the person the right to do
<br />their plan, which is the right that we have in buying our properties. We have to do it
<br />very, very nicely. You don’t try to hide from the law. And for that reason I’m very
<br />unhappy. When it comes to this girl’s family, they’re big people. They’re not small, you
<br />know, people. And even I struggled to make my own life because I’m too, too honest, I
<br />think. I don’t have this hedge that I will go through.
<br />But in the eyes of what I see, it’s not fair for me to go against her or anybody else. But
<br />because it affects me, that is why I came to this hearing. And I’m terribly sorry, Gina, for
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