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NISHIMOTO: Yes, we have a few objections that we’d like to place on the record. I would like
<br />to object to Exhibits 4, 5, 6, 7, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 29, 37, 38, 39, and 40 on the grounds
<br />that they are either confusing or irrelevant to the present application for the Use Permit. If I
<br />could further submit that specifically, these Exhibits deal mostly with a—an application for a
<br />Special Use Permit in another matter that is not relevant to the present application. If the
<br />Commission would like me to go into specifics, I can go through it one by one, but I don’t know
<br />if that’s what the Commission wants me to do.
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<br />MIYASATO: Okay, we have a testifier that signed up. She got lost. So, in order to follow
<br />procedures, I would like to bring her up before we continue.
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<br />NISHIMOTO: Okay, sure.
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<br />MIYASATO: Thank you. Could I have Antoinette Thomson please come up? Could you
<br />please raise your right hand? Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before
<br />the Hawai‘i County Planning Commission?
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<br />THOMSON: I do.
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<br />MIYASATO: Okay, could you please state your name and residence, and you have three
<br />minutes of testimony.
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<br />THOMSON: Antoinette or Toni Thomson. Thompson without the “p.” And I live at 16-2068
<br />Paradise Court. I’m on the corner of Paradise Court and Ainaloa Boulevard, and I guess I’m
<br />speaking in favor of this tower, and I’m sorry I didn’t hear what everybody else said, but I’ll just
<br />say what I want to say, so I’m not influenced by anybody. But I really think it’s important we’re
<br />getting more and more people up there that are living in, coming in and they’re not very rich
<br />people. They’re just hardworking people, and they’re entitled to have the services that are—that
<br />in large that a tower would provide as far as access to information, and I think it’s very important
<br />that people be educated because I’m an educator, and I’m 91 years old, and I live alone, and I
<br />think it’s important to have this access to the best kind of communication we can have. Not that
<br />they’re not good. The police are good now, but sometimes, you know a storm or something
<br />could knock something out, and if we have a tower, it will be another insurance that we have
<br />more up-to-date technology at our beck and call so to speak. Do I ask for questions or do I just
<br />keep on rambling? I know, I think it’s a wonderful opportunity for the community though to
<br />show its willingness to grow in a positive way and they’re widening the road, too. And so, we’re
<br />gonna need much more ability to use that road, and with wireless facilitating cars and trucks or
<br />emergency vehicles coming in the area, it’s so much better so I’m all for it. And, I don’t, and I
<br />understand they’re gonna decorate it like a tree so it doesn’t even look like a tower so it won’t be
<br />that—like a sore thumb. And, I’m looking forward to it. And I don’t think it will fall. I mean, it
<br />might fall with an earthquake, I don’t know but, I think, I’m sure when they construct it, it will
<br />be constructed safely so that there won’t be any danger of accident like that. So, I think, I don’t
<br />know if spoke three minutes or not, but that’s about what I have to say, but I think it’s a great
<br />idea, and I’m so happy that somebody’s coming in and having to risk the monetary investment to
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