2024-02-01 Windward Exh B (Item #2 Manono Corner LLC)

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the building when they approved it. They said that they wouldn't be allowed to change the appearance of the building. Well now they've removed the structure there. So, that didn't work out like we were told it would. So, I don't know what's happening there exactly, but it's been, there's been absolutely no reason for that zoning change since that zoning change was made and it's just an eyesore. It hasn't contributed anything to the neighborhood, and it used to be a residence which we need residences because we've got a homeless problem and the price of housing [indecipherable]. So I think that's an issue and then further down the street that was 2013 I think they changed the zoning on that and consolidated 3 lots into one (1) lot. And there, there is now on 2 of those lots they've removed the houses that were there and they're now using it as like a dirt and gravel base yard and there's big piles of dirt and big heavy equipment there loading trucks and rock going on. It's noisy during the day and it's an eyesore and I think the zoning changes are contributing to the degradation of the neighborhood and they're not adding anything. I mean maybe if a business had gone in there, there may have been some added value, but it is it's just degrading our neighborhood. Which ultimately is degrading Hilo and degrading the County of Hawai`i. So, I think it's a bad idea to make another mistake because both of those have turned out to be and what appears to me mistakes. You drive by and look at them. There's nothing nice to look at there, it's pretty ugly, both of them and so, that's one big reason why I think it's a bad idea. Just a general idea I think that you make attractive cities less attractive to residents. Residents move out and if the residents move out the businesses move out and you got urban decay and I think these zoning changes that have happened in the past are contributing to that and I don't see any reason this one would be any different. Because the last 2, that's the way they've gone. So, I thinks it's a bad idea. I think it was a mistake then and I think it's a mistake now. One other thing I just saw that I thought was interesting and I didn't provide it in the write up I made but I think maybe it's worth commenting on. I just say — CAMERO: Please summarize, 1 minute left. Please summarize. L. RHOADES: Okay, I'll just cover, yeah,just a couple more points. There's a segment on 60 Minutes that said there's a huge oversupply of office space in the nation because people are working from homes so much more. And there's huge, big office buildings standing open and they're thinking that might be a cause of a big economic downturn at least one of the testifiers in that segment said because the fact that these mortgages are going to come due on those and they aren't going to be able to pay their mortgages. They aren't going to be able to renew their mortgages because there isn't a demand there anymore. So, it's not a good investment. So, that's another problem, I don't think we need more office space and there are other business spaces, there's lots of empty lots around that I see. I don't know that you really need to be changing zoning and if you do need to be changing zoning because we need more residential places we should be changing from commercial to residential and not the other way. That doesn't make much sense to me, and I'd like to leave with 3 questions just not for you to answer for me,just to think about when you making your decision. TIAPULA: Please finish within the next,please- 5 EXHIBIT B