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doctor for their follow-up appointment, and they're not able to find close parking. So, it
<br />definitely has been hard.
<br />Why are we looking at that area? It's really because for us, that is one of our only other areas to
<br />provide outpatient surgical procedures to patients of this community. The hospital has the ability
<br />to provide surgeries at the—at the hospital, but we really focus on the inpatients, you know,
<br />because we never know what's going to come in the doors. We don't know how many other
<br />appointments we can schedule for this outpatients, those outpatients might be bumped because
<br />somebody is coming through the ER who needs something. So, that's sort of the reason why
<br />we're focusing on that area, and we have the ability right now to even—if we had additional
<br />parking, we have the ability to potentially expand in the area as well.
<br />So, really, if the request is denied, it's just going to be a continued inconvenience for the patients
<br />and staff, and it will—it will limit our ability to expand, you know, and help out.
<br />FUKE: So, during the course of the couple years and actually from 2011 and, you know, just
<br />periodically, in my meeting with, you know, the, some of the neighbors, the kinds of concerns
<br />that were raised, and I wanted to share that with you and probably, you know, people that I've
<br />been, you know, meeting with, they're here so they will probably come up and state their own
<br />concerns, too, and hopefully they kind of overlap it with I'm just sharing with you.
<br />But, notwithstanding the issue about like the credibility of the developer, the landowner, and so
<br />on and so forth, just looking at the specific case itself, you know, the substance of the objections,
<br />you know, they seem to relate to like noise, smoking, loitering, and those kinds of things, and a
<br />lot of that—you know, it's my understanding that a lot of those activities had occurred like, you
<br />know, during the so-called, the illegal use of this area for parking `cause the landowner then
<br />initially made it available for the hospital, the medical, Hilo Medical Center. And, so the
<br />employees were using it during the day, but during the night, because it was not gated, then so-
<br />called visitors at the correctional facility, you know, they didn't have any place to park, you
<br />know, in that area. And, you saw the photos it's kind of, the road is relatively narrow. And, so
<br />a lot of them used to park in there, and they were the ones making a lot of noise, you know,
<br />loitering and swearing and so on.
<br />So, understandably, if you're, if you're a neighbor and I get 8 or 10 o'clock you hear those kinds
<br />of things, you'd be very intimidated, and so we're trying to figure out like, okay, how can we
<br />best address that. So, we then came up with some proposed mitigation. The mitigation would be
<br />like, you know, after it's fully improved, it would be gated. It would be used, limited only to
<br />employees of the Hilo Medical Center or the Punahele Medical Center Complex. There would
<br />be time limit, you know, 6 a.m. – 6 p.m. kind of closure so that, you know, nobody else can use
<br />it.
<br />There are other concerns about like well, the road is kinda narrow and, you know, they don't
<br />want to have like traffic coming through and increasing, you know, or taxing, you know,
<br />Punahele Street, so very wisely, back in 2007, when the initial zoning was approved, there was a
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