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MCCRARY: Yes. ALAMEDA: Do you have any feedback for us today? MCCRARY: Yes, I do. I passed out -. ALAMEDA: Could you -. DARROW: Mrs. McCrary? MCCRARY: Oh, excuse me. DARROW: Could you use the mike, please. Thank you. ALAMEDA: Yeah, you know, we’re getting everything recorded, it will help our staff. Thank you. MCCRARY: Okay. I’m here to speak today in opposition of this rezoning. My partner and I have lived at 630 Hinano Street for approximately 18 years, we’ve lived on that property. We’ve seen a lot of changes occur in that neighborhood. We’re getting older. We hoped to be able to build a home on our back lot of our property, I’m sure you know that there. It’s by the Hinano Street property in question here, the Hinano and Kekuanaoa Street. So we directly look right at that property. And so we’re hoping at some point to be able to build our retirement home which should be in about, hopefully the retirement for us will be in the next five years on that back lot back there. We haven’t asked for that or anything, but that’s what we want to do on our back lot. And we have, as you well know from the earlier discussion today, all along objected. Sometimes I’ve felt that our objections were on deaf ears; but we’ve done the best we could and trying to be good neighbors with all of this. I’m not going to read what I’ve submitted to you folks, but for the folks here basically we’ve been in opposition to this. I’m just going to review it real quickly. And for a number of years we’ve listened to Green Tour buses coming and going from the Manono Street property now. And we in the past have taken pictures of that. That’s years ago, that’s water over the dam. We never complained because, again, we’re Hilo citizens and we try not to rock the boat. Okay? It was on the other, we’ve said, okay, Kekuanaoa and Manono we don’t see those buses for years and years. The hedges went up, we minded our own business, which we’ve always done. But when they purchased this other property and immediately moved forward with bulldozing and putting gravel in and moving their buses in, you know, that’s when we politely began to talk with our neighbors, which is the first step we took saying, you know, you can’t do this, this isn’t zoned for this. And we kept on and on, and they still kept on with the buses. And so we finally rather than to get into really arguments, we got in touch with the Planning Commission (sic) and started working with Mr. Usagawa. This was probably a year or so ago. We complained, they sent out violation letters. We complained because the buses EXHIBIT A 9