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used to go, my husband actually went over and put plywood over Ms. Galan’s broken window. We’ve actually like really tried to show Ms. Galan aloha. So it’s really kind of a suckerpunch when she tried to sell it to someone who’s going to compete with us and then the communication stopped. So what I’m saying is that we’re not opposed to development in Pahoa. But it has to be akamai and it has to be pono; and this is not pono. And that’s why I’m here. We’re not anti-development. We’re trying to create retail in Pahoa. If this went through and she gets her commercial rezoning, it will increase our property value to have something nicer next door. But the point is is that she has had this, please if I’m stating it mistakenly, 2004, how long has been? And it has been for sale a lot, and you’re all of a sudden you’re selling it to my competitor and trying to put in a rezoning application? Everything needs to be above board if we’re going to do it. Because, again, Mr. Domingo, you are correct, it will do everything that we envisioned. And that’s why I feel like the application was amended, because of last time when we were here the testimony that was given, and then it went, they went back to the drawing board and said, oh, this is what Pahoa wants. Okay? You want to hear from Mark? KERN: Any other questions for Ms. Hunt? Commissioner Domingo. DOMINGO: Well, you know, I can appreciate what you’re saying and how you feel. And I think perhaps later on I’d just like to have the applicant come up and tell us what has made, changed her mind with regards to deciding to develop the property rather than leaving it as it is and deciding to sell it. Because the economic conditions or atmosphere right now practically prohibits anyone from doing anything. And that’s a statement that I’d like to hear from her. And I think as I look at the zoning, the zoning ordinance, it’s, and I said, you know, I need some, I need some assurance that the property is going to be, if the property is going to be rezoned that the applicant will perform as presented. And I look at the zoning ordinance, it says a representative or assigns will do all of this, all of the conditions, having not being able to perform any of these conditions, the zoning will revert back to its, or whatever, original conditions. They have to know that. So I think that this is something that we’re to discuss and look at thoroughly. And that’s why I want certain definitive statements made with regards to what their plans are really are. KERN: We will have the applicant have a chance to come back up. We’ll also be able to cover some of this during discussion. Any other questions? Seeing none, thank you very much. Mark Hinshaw, give us your name and area you represent or association and you may begin. HINSHAW: My name is Mark Hinshaw and I’m on the Board of Directors for Pahoa Mainstreet. First I’d like to address Commissioner Domingo’s concerns. I don’t know the legalities of the speculation part of this whole thing. To me it’s not right that a person can come in and go through a rezoning just to purely gain money. I don’t know if it’s legal or not. I know that’s your area, and I don’t know that. It sounds like it is because it has got an assignee clause in there, and they can really assign it to someone else. I’ve been in real estate for 30 years and I kind of have a general idea of how that whole process works. My chief concerns are, number one, like you addressed commissioner, is is this in fact what their intentions are? If their intentions are to just purely put it up there to get a more value to it, it’s not real akamai in my eyes, it’s not from Pahoa Mainstreet. We want to be very careful as to what comes in. I’m very pro development. This really upsets a lot of my neighbors, but I’m very 13 EXHIBIT B