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MAUNA: Yes. <br /> LIN: Okay. If you want to come up, sir? [Male fi°om audience approached <br /> the testifier table]. <br /> MALE AT TESTIFIER TABLE: Morning. <br /> LIN: Morning. If you could raise your right hand,please? Do you swear or <br /> affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Windward Planning Commission? <br /> MALE AT TESTIFIER TABLE: I do. <br /> LIN: Okay, please state your name, where you reside and then summarize <br /> your testimony within 3 minutes. <br /> M. OSAKO: My name is Masa Osako, I live on Lanikaula Street in Hilo. My <br /> concern is there anything else I got to, okay. So, my concern is yes, like when I go out, I'm always <br /> hit with traffic right in front of my house. It's always congested, I have a hard time taking a left. <br /> It's easier to take a right but even then, it's still hard because people who drive, I understand, they <br /> don't live on the property, they don't, they're not thinking, they're thinking of getting from point A <br /> to point B in whatever time they have to do. I get it, people are busy, and people have lives and it's <br /> like I said it's very hard to move freely in and out. Sometimes people will be nice, and they'll leave <br /> a gap so I can take a left onto Lanikaula going mauka. But majority of the time, I have to watch <br /> everybody speeds to the red light and they don't let me out because they don't live there and I <br /> understand that, right. I live there those are the things that I have to deal with. But I don't know <br /> what intent or what is going to be built on that lot. That is private property, they have the right I get <br /> that. <br /> But when those impede on my [indecipherable] to move on and off of my property of the property <br /> on which I reside on it's very, it takes a toll. Because, yeah, I mean little by little it just eats away <br /> because once again I can't move freely on and off the property from my driveway. Other things I <br /> really don't know but that's just an inconvenience every day whether it's in the morning or in the <br /> afternoon. There is that little yield, like a little island I've seen people pass onto that to take a left <br /> onto Manono. This is going towards the highway. For me, I kind of use that as like, I use it myself <br /> only to turn into my driveway so that I don't impede traffic behind me. So, it's nice to improve <br /> things but are we really improving things or are we actually, I get it, like progress and change you <br /> can't stop that. But do we improve it just for improving things or are we just people like me and <br /> residents in that area that's not really improvements. It is impeding in our daily lives, it affects our <br /> daily lives and another also like, it's just yeah. I thought, like it's an investment property I get it. <br /> Once again you can do what you want with your property, but you have to think about the people <br /> that actually live there day to day. If you don't live there day to day, then you don't experience this <br /> traffic and all these impediments on other people. <br /> So, I can't, like I said, I can't really do anything. All I can do is I guess give my testimony. But, <br /> yeah, so, it's just kind of, yeah, but the day to day I get everybody got to work, everybody got to <br /> struggle and we're all struggling. But if it's just for an investment property or just the means to <br /> 7 <br /> EXHIBIT B <br />