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the Windward Planning Commission over this matter? <br /> <br />TESTIFIERS: I do. Yes. <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: You can go first, Roy. <br /> <br />TANABE: My name is Roy Tanabe. I live right next door to that building that we’re talking <br />about. My family has lived there since 19, the middle of 1930s, we’ve owned the land. It has <br />always been residential and we want to keep it that way. Our main concern, for me anyway, is <br />taxes. They keep telling us our value of the land is going to go up. But if the land value goes up, <br />the taxes go up. And like all of us, we are on a fixed income. So we would like it to stay the <br />same way. And, because everybody keep telling us the taxes are going to remain the same, can <br />we get something in black and white that says it’s going to be that way, so long as the residential <br />people are there? I don't object to progress but we'd like to keep it the same way basically. <br />Thank you. <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: You see the area changing so much since the 30’s. You look at the industrial <br />buildup all along that area. <br /> <br />TANABE: Yeah, I understand that. But there’s a lot of commercial areas on the lower side, <br />right? If you’re in real estate you why don’t you find commercial land that’s zoned for <br />commercial use? I would figure there’s a lot of room on the other side. <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: Commissioners? Any questions for this testifier, Commissioners? Okay. Brother <br />John. <br /> <br />TURALDE: Yeah. Good morning County Council (sic), the Planning Department. I live at 67 <br />Laukapu Street. I’ve been there for ten years, me, my wife and my kids. And since planning has <br />being going on for the past half a century or quarter century, we’re trying to go against that. And <br />most concern is like the tax and the highway, especially the highway. At night I’m sleeping, get <br />speeders come through there. And when you hear the cars flying by 30 miles to 60 miles an hour, <br />I cry and I pray that the car no head on, head on to that main highway. Yeah? How much head- <br />on accidents in my mind? And I dream every night when the car bang one other car, head-on <br />accident. When are they going to make speed bumps on the road from the beginning of Laukapu <br />Street to one other end of Laukapu Street? And I cried when that happened, yeah? And I still cry <br />when I talk and nothing gets done. And when the car bang head on to the other car, I cry after <br />that and I pray to God. Hopefully one day they can make speed bumps all the way down to my <br />neighbor, Laukapu Street, because the new development happening over there. Yeah? And <br />nobody think about that, no body live there but us. Yeah? And I cry hard because if somebody <br />head on into the main highway and it’s not one bump, it’s a head-on, everybody die in the car. It <br />has been going on for years, yeah, head on. People just move there want to do something, they <br />don’t have our feeling, they not there to see or hear what happened. Yeah? <br />4 <br /> EXHIBIT A <br /> <br /> <br />