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HOUSEL: Thank you, Allen – unless we have other questions. Anyone? Okay. We have seven <br />people who would like to testify. I think perhaps before I call the applicant, it might be appropriate <br />to have public testimony and perhaps if any questions arise, maybe the applicant can help us <br />understand those. So I’d like to – if we can have the lights back up –call the first, it looks like we <br />have four microphones available at the table: Norris Gonsalves, Arte McCollough, Cheryl Fujioka <br />and Marlene Correia-Martinez. If you could come forward, please. Thank you. If each could use <br />the microphone – I need to swear you in. Please raise your right hand. Do you swear to tell the <br />truth before the Planning Commission today on this matter? <br />TESTIFIERS: Yes, I do. <br />HOUSEL: Thank you. I guess we’ll start on this side, if you’d like to -. We have to limit your <br />testimony to three minutes because we’ve got a tight schedule today. But please state your name <br />and address, please. <br />CORREIA-MARTINEZ: Okay, my name is Marlene Correia-Martinez. And I’m a resident in <br />Kamuela on Alanui ‘Ohana Road for ten-plus years now. The reason I’m here, and I’d like to share <br />a little bit about my thoughts with this automotive shop, is we feel, all the residents on our street, <br />feel that it’s, there will be no problem, you know, it wouldn’t be a problem to us, as far as the noise <br />factor, anything like that, because there’s cows, there’s horses, and we don’t think that the <br />automotive shop would be even close to the cows and horses and all of that as far as the sound goes. <br />And lastly – let’s see – we welcome this business on our road. And nothing, I don’t know of <br />anything that really is consistent. And so if there is an approval on this automotive shop, it will be <br />welcomed. <br />HOUSEL: Thank you. Could you state your name and address, please? <br />FUJIOKA: Hi. I’m Cheryl Fujioka and I’m also from Waimea on McMillan Subdivision, a little <br />bit down the road. I’ll be honest. I don’t know a lot about the legalities of Ag lands special use <br />permits. But while I was receiving my education here in Hawai‘i with children, I heard that local <br />kids have just as much talent and are as just valuable as any other kids from around the world; but <br />in my experience I’ve seen many of my peers leave the islands for lack of opportunity and lack of <br />support. But here I see someone who has the opportunity and has ample support to build his dream. <br />When I look at these maps, I’m naïve and I don’t understand the Ag zones, the colors; but I see <br />someone who has a dream and who can make it possible with the okay of this. So I’m asking if you <br />can please grant him the special use permit, and not only to serve it to him as to build his dream but <br />also as a reminder to future generations that it is possible to be successful in a place that we love, <br />doing something we love, surrounded by the people we love. <br />HOUSEL: Thank you. <br />GONSALVES: Good morning. <br />HOUSEL: State your name and address, please. <br />GONSALVES: Norris Gonsalves. I live on Nani Waimea Street, adjacent to this property. I agree <br />with what they have been saying. It’s a two-acre parcel. The residence has been there for a while. <br />They have raised cattle, pigs, nothing could make a go. I think if they were planning for a tractor <br />repair shop in this ag, which I think they are going to be doing some of that work, so I think maybe <br />4 <br />EXHIBIT A <br /> <br />