2013-11-07 Windward Transcript - PD Ocean View

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ISHIBASHI: Okay, thank you. Your name and address for the record. NITCHE: Shall I go ahead and start? ISHIBASHI: Yes. NITCHE: Oh, okay. I’ve been on the Road Maintenance Corporation in the Ranchos for -. ISHIBASHI: Name and address for the record? NITCHE: Pardon me? ISHIBASHI: Your name and address. NITCHE: Oh, excuse me. I’m Don Nitche and I’ve been on the, I’ve lived in Ranchos for 23 years, and I’ve been on the Road Maintenance Corporation for 23 years. And I have a special permit myself that my wife and I have Bougainvillea Bed and Breakfast, which we’ve had for 23 years. We’re very concerned about the, we’re not against the swap meet, or they call it a farmers market. It’s just really a swap meet. And all we’re concerned about is the safety of the parking. They take over the whole roadway coming in; and they were required to provide off-street parking, which they did, but it’s a half a block around the corner and down the street. And they haven’t even put up a sign with an arrow pointing to it, and they don’t do any supervising. Well, we’re very concerned with the heavy parking and kids running in and out that somebody is going to get seriously injured or worse. So it has been a concern for a long time. And we’ve met with them a couple of times and we thought we were making headway, but they’ve never carried through with what we’ve asked them to do, which was to provide supervision of the parking. We did hire a couple of guys a couple of different Saturday mornings to do this, and it worked very well, and they solved the problem. But they have refused to do that. They charge a fee to come in and use their property for the swap meet but then they don’t want to spend any money to supervise it. So this has frustrated us immensely. Our experiment worked very well. But they didn’t seem to want to carry through with it. They did provide a lot to park on and then most we ever see there is one car down around the corner. People don’t seem to realize that there’s off-street parking available. The park and ride lot that they rent to the County for a fairly good fee is where the people end up using until it’s full, and then they even vend things there on that property. So that when the bus comes in on Saturday mornings it can’t even pull in there. It has got to go clear down around the block, around to our, where that breakfast is, because they can’t even turn around or park in their own property. It’s all hogged over by the swap meet. So we’re very concerned about it. And the safety issue is our big concern. So all we wish is that they would be required to supervise, 3 EXHIBIT B