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KERN: Four hundred and sixty-five feet. <br />QUINN: Line of sight. <br />CLARKSON: Any further questions for the Applicant? If not, thank you. At this time, we'll <br />take public testimony. We have one person who is still her signed up to speak. Another person <br />had to leave [Alohalani Dietz]. She wanted the Commission to know that she is in favor of the <br />Special Permit. Would you please raise your right hand? <br />SIRACUSA: Aloha, my name is Rene Siracusa. I have lived in Kaohe Homesteads <br />HALL: Excuse me, sorry <br />SIRACUSA: —for 39 years— <br />HALL: —You have to get sworn in first. Hold on one moment. He has to swear you in. Raise <br />your right hand. <br />CLARKSON: Raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter <br />before the Planning Commission? <br />SIRACUSA: I do. <br />CLARKSON: Please introduce yourself <br />SIRACUSA: I live in Kaohe Homesteads <br />CLARKSON: —Well, you have done that already <br />SIRACUSA: —for 39 years. And, I have 200 tangerine trees and a whole lot of other types of <br />fruit -bearing trees. Two acres of my property is devoted to anthurium forest and flowers and <br />foliage. I have a large nursery where I also raise native plants, and I have livestock. For the last <br />19 years, I have been a customer of Pahoa Feed & Fertilizer. <br />I believe that the Planning Department has mischaracterized the nature of this business. For <br />example, right here on your agenda, it's, it talks about allow the development of a farm and <br />garden retail store, leaving out completely the fact that a large component of this business is <br />nursery, is plant sales. And, if you were to go to their current operation, you would see that <br />about three quarters of the square footage of that whole operation is nursery, either the retail <br />sales area of the plants or the two large shade houses where the plants are grown. <br />I have purchased seed, and I have purchased flower pots and, yes, you cannot have a nursery <br />without flower pots even though they come in from the mainland. I think any nursery you go to <br />in this State will have mainland flower pots, because if you're going to ship here, your plants out <br />EXHIBIT D <br />10 <br />