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TESTIFIERS: I do.
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<br />GONZALES: Thank you very much. Why don’t we just go ahead and start on this side. Name,
<br />where you live, and three minutes.
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<br />ROBINSON: Good morning. I’m Roger Robinson. I live on 6 Road between A and F. I’ve
<br />been a resident there for 17 years and do go to the farmers, or did go to the farmers market
<br />occasionally when it was operating. I’ve never seen the road blocked there in my time of going.
<br />I think it’s a great site for this community meeting place, and we deserve something like this in
<br />our community. There’s two restrooms in the building, so the toilet facilities are there. It seems
<br />to me to be plenty of parking there. I’ve never seen a place when somebody was turned away for
<br />another parking. And I appreciate your time and hope you can find to let us continue this action.
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<br />GONZALES: Thank you. Any questions? Thank you, sir. Go ahead, Ma’am.
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<br />LITTELL: My name is Carol Casey Littell, and I am not a property owner of any property in
<br />Hawaiian Acres. I started living there as a farm worker on someone’s property on C and Hopue
<br />five years ago, and during that time, the farmers market was started and I started going and
<br />bringing my wares there, and I got to know the other people and the community through being
<br />there, through selling things, meeting people and talking to people, and having pancakes, and
<br />that all became a part of my life. And, even when I got offered a better home elsewhere outside
<br />the community, I lived there, I stayed, I continued to come, and during the time that I got there, I
<br />got to know the peo—the other vendors pretty well. And it was really, really a good sense of
<br />community. We cared about each other’s lives, and we were able to share little bits and pieces,
<br />not everything, but little bits and pieces of our lives together, and try and hold it together. And I
<br />didn’t feel—I mean there a lot of things that came up afterwards—you know, oh yes, you know,
<br />you need to change this, you need change that. So then the farmers market was closed and then
<br />there was another proposal and I went over and I walked through the new area which appears to
<br />be off the road and off for everybody to even come inside and park. If there’s a few vendors, and
<br />if there’s more vendors, there’s a place alongside the road so there’s plenty of room in the
<br />suggested new location for people to park. It does require that the vendors have to walk through
<br />the rain a lot further to use the restrooms, to get pancakes, all that kind of stuff, so it’s more
<br />inconvenience for us but it is an actually good location.
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<br />And Hawaiian Acres, the way the roads are set up, there’s pretty much in Hawaiian Acres,
<br />Volcano, it’s not just there that the road will be two lane and then it’s one lane. Maybe it’s
<br />paved, maybe it’s not paved, you know, and I have travelled around, and you come along and
<br />somebody’s car is parked in the side of the road, and you’re on the paved road until another car
<br />comes. You either pull behind the car that’s parked and wait until you have a space to go
<br />through or you, you know, if you got plenty of room, you go around them. So people park in
<br />that all the time, all over the Acres, and Volcano, and Eden Roc, and all the other places that we
<br />see. There isn’t lots and lots of cars there. This isn’t a big city. This is a farming community,
<br />and it allows more ability for small farmers to present their wares, and I’m sorry is it two
<br />minutes or one minute, and I’m not done.
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<br />GONZALES: Three. Your time is up.
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