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Park. ItÓs very pretty, the house is very beautiful. And the part about the doors, all three doors being opened, that never happened unless Mike was working in his shop or something. The store is very small. And itÓs mostly agricultural now, especially, but there are still little tiny things there that you could buy. But itÓs very much needed. I have always gone to RozettÓs Nursery to buy me plants at, from Hawaiian Paradise Park, or CurleeÓs if I needed my car fixed. I use the vet in Paradise Park, Doctor Gruen. This store is extremely needed. We have nothing on our side. And itÓs a huge neighborhood, so I would appreciate your consideration of reopening it, please. Thank you. WOODWARD: Thank you. Do we have any questions for Ms. Haskin? No, it doesnÓt look like it. Thank you very much for your testimony. All right, that is it for public testimony, unless we missed anybody. Has everybody who wanted to testify had an opportunity to? All right, anybody would like to make a motion? KERN: Mr. Chair? WOODWARD: Yes, Commissioner Kern. KERN: IÓm not quite ready to make a motion. I want to do this a little bit, I know IÓm out of order but IÒve got to stand on my soap box here for a second. I grew up in Puna as pretty much everybody knows here, and IÓve spent quite a bit of time living in Paradise Park. And IÓve driven past that store/house quite a few times and it never seemed to be obtrusive. One of my big complaints is that the General Plan doesnÓt really do Puna very much justice, in my opinion. It doesnÓt. I mean it does Hilo pretty good, but it doesnÓt do Puna very well. ItÓs decent in KeaÒau and itÓs kind of okay in Pahoa. But anywhere in between there, it falls short, in my opinion. Furthermore, where there is an area to deal with it, itÓs held by the Association or some entity thatÓs larger that they donÓt have to do anything. The CDP in my opinion also is extremely flawed in where they have located their boundaries. I was a part of that. I mean if you want to say the boundary is given to the, basically the two biggest landowners in Paradise Park, that they donÓt need to do anything with it, it doesnÓt really make sense to me. Part of the CDP in my opinion was to give smaller business owners and entrepreneurs a chance to actually be able to do something, and get some land and open a store up, or develop some land and sell it, or lease it. So in my opinion the CDP is very flawed in that way; and I know that people agree. Honestly, I donÓt think thereÓs going to be a lot of traffic coming in there from outside the Paradise Park to go shop at this store. ItÓs not really like that. It seems to be, in my opinion, that it would be mainly kept more in Paradise Park. And not having to travel on Highway 130 is definitely a very good thing. Just this morning dropping my daughter off I almost got into an accident. IÓm honking my horn; and itÓs pretty dangerous. 14 EXHIBIT A