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<br />ISHIBASHI: Mahalo. Any questions, Commissioners, of staff? Thank you. If we could have <br />our applicant come forward, please, Sherry or Mr. Fuke. Could you raise your right hand, please. <br />Do you swear and affirm to tell the truth before Windward Planning Commission over this <br />matter? <br /> <br />FUKE: I do. <br /> <br />JORDAN: I do. <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: Thank you. <br /> <br />FUKE: Good morning, Mr. Chairman and Members of the Commission, and also Happy <br />Holidays to you all. Sherry Jordon, by the way my name is Sidney Fuke. I’m a planning <br />consultant assisting Sherry Jordan. She’s present over there. She has had a chance to review the <br />staff’s proposed conditions and recommendation; and, of course, obviously very enthusiastic <br />about a favorable recommendation. Just to summarize, and your staff’s presentation of course <br />was like, was on point. Just to summarize, however, I wanted to kind of note that while she <br />currently, Mr. and Mrs. Jordan currently lives on the property right now. She relocated her <br />residence from Hawaiian Paradise Park to this location largely because, you know, her children <br />are attending St. Joseph’s School and they participate in sports, so on and so forth, so it makes <br />more sense for her to be close to the Hilo Urban area. In addition to that, you know, normally I <br />guess like if you do have a real estate office you could possibly qualify as a home occupation; <br />however, she does have a like number of employees, and so that kind of eliminates the home <br />occupation provision. So, unfortunately, you know, the only route to enable her to continue her <br />real estate activity is to be able to go through the change of zone. Fortunately, in this situation <br />here she does not have any plans to tear down and build a new building, you know, because it's a <br />very expensive proposition. What she wants to do is essentially convert her existing dwelling to <br />make it more accommodating for her real estate operation. And that in a nutshell is what is <br />proposed before you. So if there are any questions then, you know, I'd be more than happy to <br />answer. If not, Mrs. Jordan would be able to assist more, I guess. <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: Thank you, Mr. Fuke. Any questions, Commissioners? <br /> <br />GONZALES: I have one. You mentioned employees. How many employees? <br /> <br />FUKE: Yes. Currently she has like three staff members and then one or two from like on a part- <br />time basis and one definitely is a full-time, in addition to herself. Of course she has like a number <br />of agents but the agents do not reside, I mean, do not come to the property. <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: Questions? You may be excused. We have some testifiers. If we could have Roy <br />Tanabe, John Turalde, come up; and Lillian if you could come up too, Lillian. We have three <br />minutes per testifier. If you can come in, Lillian. You can sit down. Okay, thank you. If you <br />could raise your right hand, all of you, please. Do you swear and confirm to tell the truth before <br />3 <br /> EXHIBIT A <br /> <br /> <br />