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went to the Planning Department, wegot the drawings. We read the stipulations. We came in force and spoke our piece. And you came and you looked and you decided. And now, the very thing that you decided is being held as a good reason why this should also continue. Talk about creeping commercialism, that building is not creeping. It is hovering and luring. The mountain is gone. The traffic is terrible. Come to my house at 3 oclock in the afternoon, you cant make a left-turn out of my driveway through four changes of the light at Lanikaula. I can taste the exhaust fumes in my dining room. Okay? Now what were talking about is a narrow property that has two homes, that theres absolutely nothing wrong. I looked at the two homes. Mr. Horiuchi offered to sell me those two homes for a mere $600,000. The neighbors and I seriously considered it as a means of our sanity. When Mr. Fuke says that one of the suggestions, recommendations comes from Concept Development I couldnt suppress my anger. Because if you called the Police Department and you asked them how many complaints our neighborhood filed against the existing project, the existing project, theprojectthatiscurrentlyunderconstructionthatdoesntgivearatsyouknowwhat,aboutthe noise ordinances, the bulldozers that start before dawn, the equipment that goes on and on, the compressors that get left on during the night; and they dont care. And the Police Department says that they dont understand the noise ordinance, so I went to the Internet and I downloaded it, and I faxed it to them; and they said thank you so much, you know we cant enforce this, all we can do is tell them that theres a complaint. I said would you please send a police car so that the neighbors can physically see that the contractor understands that we are upset? Okay? We went through this. Weve been with it for almost a year now. The neighborhood is under siege. Why dont you just come and shoot everybody and put us out of our misery. You know, he built that thing on the corner, the Pepsi trucks comes at 4 a.m., beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. We live there. Weve lived there for a really long time. And its not an isolated pocket. Its a neighborhood, with people, and pets and kids. The reason Im here alone is because they all lost faith in you. We sat here, we asked you questions. One of the members said can we answer these questions? And somebody said no. It was a gentleman who was sitting there where Mr. Torigoe is, I dont remember his name. He said, well, if were not the appropriate body to answer these questions, who is? No one answered. No one cares. You guys came, you looked. And Im sorry, Mr. Fuke, but you know what, not to like mention a little loophole, but that whole little song and dance just now about going to the Planning Commission, and going to Public Works and the flood study, you already saw that that doesnt exist. You can just go right around you guys and go straight to the Army Corp of Engineers and certify that that thing is outside of the flood zone, bypass Public Works altogether. Thats what happened last time. Dont try it, please dont try it. You know, if I thought for a moment that the people would actually care about what else is going on in the neighborhood, then it might be different; but they dont. And we look to you for some sort of measure to protect what people are already there. I dont know what to say. I trust you guys. But you know what? You made one really, really bad decision that is just drowning us all. And Im horrified that youre about to make another. ALAMEDA:Ms. Black? BLACK:Im sorry, Im just -. Yes, yes? 6EXHIBIT A