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KERN: Do you swear to tell the truth today before the Windward Planning Commission? <br /> <br />GALAN: Yes. <br /> <br />KERN: Okay. And could you use your microphone and give us your name and address or area you <br />represent. <br /> <br />GALAN: Okay, Karen Galan. And the response to your question is I have contacted Earth Carvers of <br />Hawaii, and I do have a couple of contractors that I’ve been contacting. And, you know, I’m not doing <br />the material list or anything because I’m still kind of waiting to get rezoned. I’m having a lot of <br />opposition. It has been a year. And actually I’ve been here a couple of times, and there’s not even <br />enough people to vote. So it has been frustrating. And I really do believe that it’s going to enhance <br />Pahoa town because it is going to be something brand new, it’s five new buildings. It’s going to be <br />like very nice, lush landscaping with, you know, hapu‘u and orchids, bird of paradise. It’s going to be <br />a very, I think it will really enhance downtown Pahoa. It’s going to have like little, four little shops <br />downstairs. There’s five bungalows, or a little bit, actually it’s five but one is going to be for <br />residential. I’ll have somebody, a manager on the site all the time. So somebody will live there all the <br />time. And then underneath there will be a handicapped place, and then there’s four little shops, and <br />then four, upstairs will be four, like little hotel rooms for people to stay. And I think it will be, really <br />enhance the downtown area. <br /> <br />KERN: Commissioner Au. <br /> <br />AU: Do you live on the property? <br /> <br />GALAN: No. <br /> <br />AU: Have you lived on the property in the past? <br /> <br />GALAN: Me and my husband, we, we took six months and we fixed up the property and helped clean, <br />I mean, you know, started cleaning up the –. When we first bought the place, we were there from like <br />st <br />July all, every weekend, all the way till January 1 fixing the house and doing, you know, it was kind <br />of in bad shape. So, and then we got Earth Carvers who came out and bulldozed everything, leveled <br />off the property -- it’s all nice and leveled -- and took down trees and hauled away like three dumpsters <br />of trash out of there and everything. So it’s pretty nice. It’s all ready to go actually. Well, it’s going <br />to have to be ripped up again but it’s good to go. <br /> <br />KERN: Thank you. Any other questions? Commissioner Domingo. <br /> <br />DOMINGO: I understand you have an existing structure on the property. <br /> <br />GALAN: Yes. And that has been, that is true, and it’ll have to be taken down. <br /> <br />DOMINGO: I see. <br /> <br />6 <br /> EXHIBIT B <br /> <br />