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SHEEN: Okay. We are looking at a dinner menu, lunch and dinner. We have one other café in <br />the area that has hamburgers and fish and chips, that type of meals at Ke‘ei right there about 900 <br />feet away down on Māmalahoa Highway; it’s the only other food option other than traveling all <br />the way to Kealakekua, or almost Kealakekua. So we do snacks, wraps, currently on our menu <br />now, and we’ll incorporate meals, hamburgers, hot dogs, fish and chips, again, coming from <br />local products, and we do arrangements of items off of our farms; we have papayas, pineapples, <br />avocados, mangos, and we purchase and implement those into our menus. <br /> <br />CARR SMITH: Thank you. <br /> <br />UNGER: Have you read the Planning Department’s background report and recommendations, <br />and do you agree with them? <br /> <br />SHEEN: Yes, I have, and, yes, I do. <br /> <br />UNGER: Okay. Commissioners, any other questions? That’s it. Thank you. You may be <br />seated. <br /> <br />SHEEN: Thank you. <br /> <br />UNGER: At this time we’d like to open up the meeting to public testimony. I have a Larry <br />Baird as a testifier. If Mr. Baird would come forward at this time. <br /> <br />BAIRD: My name is Larry Baird. I’m representing my family as we own the residence that’s <br />attached to the Ka‘ū side of this project. <br /> <br />UNGER: Before we get into that, will you please raise your right hand? <br /> <br />BAIRD: Oh, sorry. <br /> <br />UNGER: Do you swear and affirm to tell the truth before the Planning Commission? <br /> <br />BAIRD: I do. <br /> <br />UNGER: Thank you. Please state your name, where you reside. <br /> <br />BAIRD: Okay. Larry Baird. I reside at 82-1193 Greenwell Mountain Road, Captain Cook. As <br />I said, my wife and family own the property on the Ka‘ū side of this project, and we are greatly <br />impacted. Our house is right adjoining the office thing that you saw on the plat plan. So we are <br />within a matter of a few feet of this operation. We’ve had a lot of issues over the parking for <br />safety reasons, blocking visibility for our property’s access onto the highway; so we’ve been <br />fighting on this for years now. The history of this operation is they don’t abide by the rules. <br />They have opened hours outside of what they are legally allowed to, and this is consistently <br />persisted. Also, on the parking they’ve continued to disregard what was supposed to be clearly <br />that they were not to park on the highway, and they’ve continued to do so even after being fined. <br />You have a copy of my written testimony. I just want to elaborate a little bit on that. I feel that <br />5 <br />EXHIBIT A <br /> <br />