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<br />DEFRANCO: It’s an admission.
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<br />GIFFIN: Okay, thank you. Hearing none, now, Daryn, we should hear from the public?
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<br />ARAI: Yes.
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<br />GIFFIN: Okay, so, if you would please step back. Thank you. Mr. Bob Ward and Jane -. Is it
<br />Yangston? Yangson?
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<br />YANGSON: Yangson.
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<br />GIFFIN: Will you please come forward. Thank you. Mr. Ward, the staff has just informed me that
<br />they put your name down to testify for this agenda item by, in error, so, I’m sorry, but it’s not your
<br />turn yet. So, Commissioners, it’s really only one person who signed up to testify on this agenda
<br />item, and that is this woman here. Will you please raise your hand, your right hand. Thank you.
<br />Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Leeward Hawai‘i County
<br />Planning Commission?
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<br />YANGSON: I do.
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<br />GIFFIN: Thank you. And will you please state your name.
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<br />YANGSON: My name is Jane Yangson. I live across the street from Paleaku Gardens, at 83-5410
<br />Painted Church Road.
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<br />GIFFIN: Thank you. You may begin your testimony.
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<br />YANGSON: Okay. As we have seen the photos shown on the screen, you can see that the property
<br />is expansive. There is lots of room for visitors to come and see their pretty garden and their statuary
<br />there. But in our neighborhood it will entail lots of cars, lots of people, lots of noise. So as you
<br />look at the photographs, you can see that this is a commercial venture. And our area it’s agriculture.
<br />We grow, the neighbors around us, grow coffee, macadamia nuts, mangos, and nothing commercial.
<br />They take their coffee, which they have picked, to a vendor who will process their coffee. And
<br />currently what she says here is that “if approved, the request would enable me to re-establish the
<br />existing greenhouses for retail plant sales and garden statuary along with the small area for tourist’s
<br />items.” Now, do we want more tourists in the area? This is a quiet street, and has been for many,
<br />many years. We have owned our property since 1978, and the reason why we came to live there is
<br />because of the quietness and the agriculture atmosphere of the area. And also, my husband and I
<br />and lots of elderly people walk on that road. And I don’t know if you know, but I’m sure you know
<br />that Painted Church Road is a very narrow road; when cars come, the walkers have to jump over to
<br />the side and walk on the gravel or on the dirt. So with added traffic, we will have to be dodging
<br />cars a lot. And most of the people that walk on that street are elderly people, and I’m in the
<br />category, elderly people – darn it, I didn’t know the time would come when I would have to be
<br />more careful about jumping from the road to the side, to the, there is no shoulder, to the grass, the
<br />gravel, or whatever. So at times Paleaku Gardens have had Buddhist people come over, which they
<br />play their drums and they pronounce or say the story of their chants, and these go on for a long
<br />time, hours; sometimes it starts in the morning and it ends in the evening, and the drums, they are
<br />just not conducive to the quiet neighborhood. So I appeal to you to keep our area agriculture and
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