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restored forests, improved watersheds, and healthy private working lands. We strongly feel that
<br />the business that we run now, 75 percent of it is agriculture. We only have designated 800
<br />square feet. The building we're in now is 2,400 square feet. Eight hundred square feet of that
<br />building is designated for pet food—chicken feed, cows, horses, dogs, cats. So, we only
<br />designate 800 square feet to do—everything else is agricultural, and it's with the plants that we
<br />grow, the greenhouse we have, the soils we sell. We also work with the State in regards to fire
<br />ants, coqui frogs. We honor the State's programs on selling fire ant bait. We sell the bait that
<br />the State recommends, and we work in conjunction with the State to help in that area. We are
<br />out there to help the State and the consumers in our neighborhood. And, that's what I really
<br />wanted to share with you, but the most important thing we found out, we do have the proper line
<br />of sight. I can furnish that report. It will cost us another $550 which we can come up with, but
<br />we do have the line of sight. It's not on a curve where you can't see. It's not a blood bath out in
<br />Pahoa on that highway. There's clear visibility both sides. You have a traffic light regulating
<br />cars coming from the high school side.
<br />My question is has anybody gone out and seen our store or our operation? Has anybody gone
<br />out to this lot with the exception of that gentleman right there and looked at it and actually and
<br />physically seen the dangers of it? That's all I had a question was to ask you folks if you've been
<br />out there or if you've been to our family business to see, you know, what we offer and what we
<br />have. It's not a big deal, big box. We don't advertise. It's just word of mouth, and it's been that
<br />way for over 19 years, and I just want to thank each and every one of you for hearing me out.
<br />CLARKSON: You're welcome. Any questions for the Applicant or his representative?
<br />AGUI NALDO: No, but to answer his question, I've been there. You know, I had to buy—my
<br />egg layers, buy chicken feed. Yeah, Mr. Quinn is a good man. What he's trying to do is he's not
<br />competing with anybody, and, yeah, you know, he has, you know, I think was fish as well. It's a
<br />small operation, family operation, and his plants. I see he got some Hawaiian plants like the
<br />Mamaki tea. You cannot find them out in the wild. Cannot, you know, and that's something that
<br />I did, Mr. Quinn. I've been there, you know, multiple times at your place so I know your
<br />operation.
<br />CLARKSON: Any further questions?
<br />QUINN: I have one thing that I forgot to express to you folks. The developmental options that
<br />we have after looking at that back road off of the church parking lot, we finally came up with
<br />justin my heart, one thing, and that would be to sell fertilizer, feed, have a nursery, access the
<br />property right -turn in, right -turn out, 12 delineator sticks on the center line heading towards
<br />Kea`au, and if, possibly, lowering that speed limit from 45 to 35. The delineator sticks would
<br />prevent people from making the left, the traffic would flow, our customers that I've talked to,
<br />they see no hardship in right -turn in, right -turn out, and that's the only other thing I forgot to
<br />mention.
<br />KERN: And, just to fill in on the right -turn in, right -turn out, we have a 465 -foot line of sight.
<br />REPLOGLE: It's what?
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