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MIYASATO: Okay, please state your name and residence.
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<br />MCCRARY: Can you hear me? Yes--
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<br />DARROW: Mic—
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<br />MCCRARY: Okay—okay, my name is Theresa Ann McCrary. My husband and I have owned
<br />the property at 63, 630 Hīnano Street for 25 years, and we’ve loved our home. The area has not
<br />seen, sort of an old area—and I also—that we’ve enjoyed. I also need to let you know that I am
<br />a registered nurse of 35 years, and still acting in that function, and I am acutely aware of the
<br />physician shortage in, in this County or the State of Hawai‛i for that matter, and deal with it
<br />often.
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<br />I think I don’t need to go through a lot of the things in this letter cause it looks, I hope everybody
<br />has read it. I will say that we, the main thing that we would like to see happen--there’s a lot of
<br />discussion about the traffic in the area that something is going to take care of it by putting in
<br />curbs or whatever. It’s not just in front of the Gutteling proposal property. It’s that entire area
<br />there, okay? And you can’t just sit in a room and say oh, there’s enough room, well go ahead
<br />and do this. You need to have a traffic pattern study. Okay, and it needs not to just to be in front
<br />of the Gutteling proposed property. It needs to be all up and down that area. I think you read
<br />there that I totaled my Prius right there within 60 foot of my home. Okay, the traffic is
<br />horrendous there, all up and down that area, okay. Big Island Candy [sic] went in and I didn’t
<br />do, I didn’t say anything, cause I, I’m not against—I may be old but I’m not against
<br />improvements in an area and commercialization. I own a business. Very much for it. It actually
<br />increases the value of my property, my home, if it’s done correctly.
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<br />Basically, when, and I’m not really here to speak about Green Tours, but when they, their
<br />property went in, I came and spoke. I was against it, but I didn’t think about, I knew that those
<br />two entries on that property was going to have an impact in the area, but I didn’t think to request
<br />a traffic pattern study. Let’s really take a look at what the difference is, what is going on here. I
<br />think you’ll see that from 2 o’clock to about 8 o’clock, in the evening, you know, particularly,
<br />well in the morning, too. I think there might be a lag between 10 and 11 or so. It’s horrendous
<br />amount of traffic in there. It’s bumper to bumper. And, I don’t think my opinion and my
<br />husband’s opinion is, you know, if you do address right in front of the Gutteling area, that’s not
<br />gonna help that area. You’re still gonna be congested. They’re talking about turning to the right.
<br />Well, guess what? I don’t think anybody did a traffic pattern study or looked at what was going
<br />on with Aloha Gas Station. That’s a mess down there. You never are able to turn left. Okay,
<br />you always have to turn right and go down Laukapa [sic] to get back on the road. You know, so
<br />I may not be in a commercial mode here for this, but I think that as a resident of the area for so
<br />long, based on the information that I have here, I really would like to see, you know, some of
<br />these, some of my requests honored.
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<br />Also, I did not, I’m busy, so I did not think to talk about Manono Street Marketplace. Okay, I
<br />went down there. I drove the streets before I wrote this letter one evening at about 8 o’clock in
<br />the evening. There were probably close to 75 or 80 cars parked at the Manono Marketplace right
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