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kept on coming, people weren’t listening. Okay, and we complained again, they sent out
<br />more letters
<br />Our reasoning here today, it’s really basic. This is our home. It’s the only home we’ll
<br />ever have. Okay, you know how that is in Hawaii. You sell your home in Hawaii and
<br />you’ve got to move. And we object to this because of the noise of the beeping buses.
<br />Okay? We object because of the safety hazards. We know, I’m not a planning, I’m not a
<br />traffic person. But I know looking on Kekuanaoa, you know, those buses are coming out,
<br />and I know you’ve all done some addressing to that. They’re pulling out into a turning
<br />zone, lane. Hinano Street is, there are accidents there often. There are bodily injury
<br />accidents there. I personally have often felt there needs to be a stoplight at Hinano Street
<br />anyway. Okay? I also have to, without changing the subject, I have to tell you, you
<br />brought up the Big Island Candy thing, I greatly, we greatly regret that we did not get
<br />involved in the same vein we are today with the Big Island Candy. Big Island Candy
<br />should have never been put there. Okay? Because it’s trying to change the face of the
<br />whole community. And the beeping buses over there are outrageous. Okay? But back to
<br />the conversation here -. We continue to complain, oh, and, well, the noise concerns, the
<br />safety concerns, and the visual appearances. And I’m going to show you here briefly, if
<br />you approve this, what you are doing to my home, okay, what you’re doing to us and
<br />where we live. Because that’s what it’s about. We are the people we believe that are
<br />most affected by this change, and I mean personally day and night. And so we’ve got the
<br />visual concerns.
<br />I will say also I wanted to, there was another comment that was made this morning
<br />regarding the fact that we had given them plants to plant. We did not give them plants to
<br />plant. That’s not a big deal but I just wanted to make that -. What I did say is if you’re
<br />going to do this, because obviously I felt like they were going to do this, then please put
<br />up a hedge; and I showed her the type of hedge. Now I want to go on record now as to
<br />saying that after a great deal of thought and looking at the hedge, the hedge is not going
<br />to stop the noise. The hedge is not going to stop the visual and ugly and unsightliness of
<br />these buses.
<br />So we have, then we talk about the noise pollution. I did a little research, decibels, I
<br />think that’s the word for it. Forty decibels wake up sensitive people. Okay, we have
<br />been woken up by these buses. Now the buses, there are rules. I believe that you guys
<br />are setting down conditions that will only allow them to operate these buses at certain
<br />times. You know, I’m going to show you why I don’t believe that the conditions will be
<br />followed. Okay? And once you turn your back you’re going to leave me, a little old
<br />lady, having to continue to fight this. Okay? Because I can’t sleep with the beeping
<br />buses. So 40 decibels wake up sensitive people. Seventy decibels wake up most people.
<br />A hundred and twenty decibels, I got this off the internet, 120 decibels causes human
<br />discomfort, pain in the ears. Beeping buses although it stops and goes, beep, beep, beep,
<br />it stops and goes, beeping buses have anywhere from 82 to 112 decibels on those beepers.
<br />Okay? And its not just, well, you know, I don’t have to go into that, beep and then back
<br />off, and forward, okay. The part, and moving buses as I’m going to show you in pictures
<br />here are within 30 feet of my dining room table. Okay, now this is where commercial
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