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WATANABE: Is that pretty clear for you?
<br />G. BRANCO: Yes.
<br />WATANABE: Okay.
<br />G. BRANCO: Thank you. There was just, I wanted to just briefly say what I wanted
<br />to say, is that I also oppose the rezoning of half acre. No. 1 is I don’t believe there is a market
<br />right now for it. There’s not a great demand for it. It’s a misfit. I mean you look at the whole
<br />area of Makalika Street and the whole entire development of Panaewa Farm Lots, yeah, and to
<br />have it broken into half acre lots is not desirable. Like I said before the main concern was when
<br />my parents back in early nineties wanted to subdivide the property, which they eventually did, it
<br />took four or five years to get that done; and the main objective was the water. Those three
<br />waterwells, in the back of the property, our property, and also the Sonomura Rental’s, applicant,
<br />there are three deep waterwells, Panaewa waterwells; and that’s the water that services most all
<br />of Hilo. And we had a hard time, we had to, the radius came about -. And, you know, ground
<br />contamination, although it’s septic, and cesspools, but still ground contamination and things, you
<br />know -. And so there’s a 1,000-foot radius of making a dwelling, so we had to abide by that.
<br />That’s why the lot, our own property in the back -. My parents’ is a triangle area, if you noticed,
<br />so that the two lot owners, my brother and I, we both can -. I mean he has a home there
<br />constructed already, and it’s within, it’s, you know, up to specs. But, however, it’s just, you
<br />know, 1,000 feet away from that now all of a sudden you’re allowing a half acre lots with homes.
<br />I just have concern about it. Although it’s septic but there’s still, I just think of ground
<br />contamination. That’s my only thing about it, cause the water was the biggest concern when my
<br />parents subdivided into three-acre lots, which we have now.
<br />Another concern I have is the, I have children going college, and they’re Ag majors. One of my
<br />daughters, you know, and my son is looking to forestry, you know, and farming also, cause we
<br />were brought up that way. And, you know, we’re looking at food sources. And currently I have
<br />a nursery located in the back of my parent’s home, plant nursery, and I spray. Like I mentioned
<br />last time, I, you know, nowadays with introduction of pests and stuff, we continue farming it,
<br />and mist blow, and everything, you know. And in case my kids wants vegetables, you know, do
<br />crops, home consumption, there’s a knowing. I mean mist blowers and stuff gotta be done every,
<br />you know, two or three times a week, rain or shine. The noise, the spray, you know, that’s my
<br />concern. Although the homes there, you know, people can’t complain or anything, but it’s just
<br />courtesy, you know, using our head. I mean the way the property is the mist, you know, it might
<br />travel through and cause nausea. I mean there are people now, they’ll have residents living
<br />there. And that’s just my concern. Although they can’t do nothing, but it’s, it’s consideration, I
<br />believe, yeah, especially half acre lots. And a clarification, most of that lot that Sonomura
<br />purchased is all fill. Those, when they dug for the canal the Waiakea flood channel there, all that
<br />material that was dredged went to fill that lot. So they’re all boulders, it’s all stones, it’s all
<br />rocks, boulders; but Albesia got their way in there. I mean they’re huge. And that’s what
<br />occupies most of that parcel being concerned right now that they want to subdivide. It’s all
<br />boulders. It’s all the fill that came from the flood channel. I just wanted to make a mention of
<br />that.
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