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<br />You know, they agreed to do what they said they was going do, and now they’re just, they’re not
<br />being good neighbors. They’re doing what they want to do. That’s all.
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<br />GONZALES: Thank you, Mr. Antonio. Any questions for the gentleman? Okay.
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<br />PAKELE: Good morning, Commissioners. My name is Don Pakele. Initially, I was going to
<br />get up and speak up for the Luana Gardens Subdivision, but as you can see, these people are
<br />sitting here now wanting to testify because of what is being said, okay? So, as soon as Elizabeth
<br />gets here, they can go do their thing, but I just want to give you a little bit background of our
<br />association. Luana Gardens Subdivision was created in the late 70’s, and reformed in 2000, but
<br />we go back farther than that. We go back to Kinney Heights Subdivision before the war in the
<br />1940’s. As a matter of fact, we still have one member who is still a member of our association,
<br />Alvin Yanagihara. He’s still part of our association. After that, the Kinney Heights Subdivision,
<br />then it became Maneki Kumiai in the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. For some reason, they kind of petered
<br />out so we picked it up again in 2000 and we’re 40 households strong. The reason why we
<br />decided to come here—I faced you folks in the year 2000 supporting the program and supporting
<br />what they, what Regency South wants to do. I believe Mr. Ono had mentioned something that
<br />we had agreed with them. It’s not so much that we agreed with them. We came up with a
<br />proposal. I think you folks have it in front of you. Those are the concerns that we first came up
<br />with, and what we said at that time was, build the road first. And everybody looked at us and
<br />said oh well no, we can do both at the same time, this and that, this and that. Okay, so we
<br />reluctantly went along with their mitigation proposals. It’s not that we agreed with what they
<br />had to say, okay, but we went along of it. But because of what they were saying to us, we went
<br />along with it.
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<br />We have had nothing but problems from day one. Okay, number one, when we asked that they
<br />leave a vegetation buffer between us and the development, you know what they did? The
<br />bulldozers came in and wiped everything out. Everything. So where’s the buffer? Where’s the
<br />20 feet? We wanted indigenous trees to be left, clean out the underbrush of invasive weeds and
<br />things, and leave the indigenous trees there as a buffer. That didn’t happen. Just wipe it out.
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<br />Okay as far as, excuse me, as far as the violation, I don’t think that we should allow them to keep
<br />building and violating the Use Permit. They should be stopped from building anything vertical
<br />until that road is completed and turned over to the County. To give them concurrent--
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<br />YAMAKI: Oh, I’m Mel Yamaki, yeah? Our problem that wasn’t mentioned is that people tend
<br />to speed coming down from Kaūmana and down to maybe Aipuni and I think that the speed sign
<br />says it’s 35 or 30. Our problem is that Saddle Road is, was built probably in the 1930’s which
<br />Kaūmana Drive is part of. During that time, in, from yeah, the old days like that, I noticed the
<br />roads were all in, confused, up and down, curvatures like that, and they slow down but Pāhoa
<br />Road, going up to Pāhoa, that improvement was made in 1950’s. It came straight, yeah. Saddle
<br />Road remains the same, okay. And the drivers tend to speed, the upper Kaūmana drivers tend to
<br />speed so, when we, anyway, upper Kaūmana drivers tend to speed and so it’s a concern of us
<br />trying to get to Kaūmana Drive. So anyway, I think the Saddle Road was built in the 1930’s I
<br />think when the cars were invented. I don’t know. Anyway, the roads tend to follow the lay of
<br />the land, you know, and then there’s poor line of sight, yeah. So, what we want to do is slow
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