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they have, those kind of jobs we don’t have fulltime employees, you just grab what you’ve got. I
<br />see one of the comments here by Airbnb – I guess we are, I’m not supposed to say Airbnb, what
<br />do you say, Air Bed and Breakfast, but you know what I’m talking about. And looking at this
<br />problem a year and a half or so, working on this, to come up with something that is fair. I ask
<br />you to believe just one thing on other things I just asked: None of it is to get rid of short-term
<br />rentals; what we are trying to do is make a balance of place to live. Hawai‘i is a place of zoning.
<br />That’s what prevents a lot of things from happening. It is a place of zoning. If we do not, the
<br />plea given, asked of me by many residents was this: None of them that I can remember said
<br />outlaw all short-term rentals. Sometimes anger is so bad like Kohanaiki, they want you to stop
<br />all developments. There is no disagreement with the gentleman who was talking to me in
<br />regards to who pays the bill. What is there to disagree about? What they are asking for is
<br />control, that this not belong to only one side of the fence of people making money. Where do
<br />they live? We do not want to become Maui, Kaua‘i and O‘ahu. They would tell you under any
<br />oath, come up with the proposal to present to you, to present to the Council, that is all
<br />encompassing in your thinking, and above all fair as best as you can be, realizing the impossible
<br />task of making everybody happy, because that’s not the goal. I am very appreciative of Air Bed
<br />and Breakfast. I’ve dealt with many different groups of different interests, but I think this Air
<br />Bed and Breakfast is one of the few organizations that I see a true attitude of trying to work out a
<br />solution with the people. I got a very unusual proposal of theirs that I read, and they were trying
<br />to work with our State Legislature to collect the taxes for us from those that were registered
<br />under their organization. And I’m sure it stated good reasons, but, I didn’t talk to them about it,
<br />but I know I can’t think of a good reason why not embrace that to work with us to address this.
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<br />The suggestions in regards to people that were inundated, and in that short three days, we lost
<br />500 homes in Lower Puna, one of them is mine, not a big home but a beautiful place by the
<br />ocean. Five hundred. So naturally, we have that kind of problems, and some of them were bed
<br />and breakfast. The idea was, can you take a look at that and see if they can be grandfathered in
<br />in regards to other places to go. Naturally, this is something we’ve got to look at. Because of
<br />zoning, there is a lot of places on Ali‘i Drive that are beyond resort areas. I heard Mike talk
<br />about we must address this, but not at this time, as soon as we can because that calls for a
<br />General Plan revision. Did I say something wrong?
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<br />YEE: No.
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<br />KIM: No? Thank you. When you get this job, you get so much to read and sometimes you
<br />don’t even remember correctly, but that’s what I remember. That’s not me telling him that. It is
<br />him saying this is what we must do to make it fair because in that Ali‘i Drive area there are a lot
<br />of bed and breakfast that must be addressed, and it’s not fair to say as of this date you are illegal.
<br />And I trust him. Now he has no choice because we are saying it publicly. This must be
<br />addressed for fairness. It calls for a revision of the General Plan, so it doesn’t fit here. But it
<br />will be revisited, it will be reviewed to help best we can change things to make is fair. We are of
<br />zoning. The biggest concern expressed is that of a lifestyle, what’s happening to all quiet
<br />neighborhood. Besides that, everyone here, they have the same General Plan, what is a white
<br />picket fence with grandpa, grandma, neighbors or whatever. I was lucky enough that I had that.
<br />No white fence but I had a neighbor that were grandpa and grandmas to my own children.
<br />That’s kind of things you dream about being lucky. I ask us, like Airbnb – not accusing any of
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