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<br />GONZALES: Any other questions for staff? Thank you, Maija. Will the applicant please come <br />forward? Will you please raise your right hand? Do you swear and affirm to tell the truth before <br />the Planning Commission today? <br /> <br />JARVIS: Yes. <br /> <br />GONZALES: Okay, state your name, and go ahead. <br /> <br />JARVIS: Aloha kakou, my name is Ashlin Kekaula Jarvis. I’m sorry, what else did you need <br />me to state? <br /> <br />MASUNAGA: Address. <br /> <br />JARVIS: Address. I live in Hawaiian Acres, 16-1835 ‘Ope‘ape‘a Road. Okay, well I’d like to <br />show you a photo, I’m sorry, I should have given that to Maija. In my application it was <br />established that the first store that was on the property that I’m leasing was the Black Coral Gift <br />Shop. But that photo that you’re looking it as actually from 1903 where that building that you’re <br />looking it is the one that I am actually leasing. It was the site of a plantation store for the ‘Ōla‘a, <br />it was a general store for the ‘Ōla‘a Plantation, so just wanted to show you that came from the <br />owners, Peter and Debbie Lo, and they received that from Charles Wittig, who was the owner of <br />the Tinny Fisher Antique Store. <br /> <br />Just a quick background, I hail from the Island of Oahu, more specifically from the moku of <br />Ko‘olauloa. My home is in Laie where my ohana are from. And before I moved here in 2005, I <br />had an office in Kahuku, and it’s very similar, that area to the plantation towns all along the <br />Hāmākua Coast. It was, you know, the Kahuku Sugar Mill here, and I leased a building that was <br />part of the Tanaka Plantation Store where I practiced the native medicine. I’m a practitioner of <br />‘ike Haha. But anyway, when I came here in 2005, I saw that Tinny Fisher Antique Shop, and it <br />was a dilapidated, falling apart building. The type where if more than ten people went in, watch <br />out, because it might fall in. But since then, Peter Lo, I think at that time that I saw it, he <br />renovated, and made it into the beautiful store front that you see now, and that is where I feel, I <br />knew at that time back in 2005, that--that should be the home of Honi Wai, the business, my <br />establishment to sell more than just antiques—but, prepared grab and go foods and high end <br />Hawai‘i made products for anyone who is travelling up and down that highway. So, are there <br />any questions for me. <br /> <br />GONZALES: Did you receive the Planning Director’s Recommendation— <br /> <br />JARVIS: --yes— <br /> <br />GONZALES: --and Background Report? <br /> <br />JARVIS: --and I agree with all of this terms— <br /> <br />GONZALES: --you agree with all of that? <br /> <br />4 <br />EXHIBIT B <br /> <br /> <br />