HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-09-16 John Rocha TestimonyFrom: John Rocha
To: LPCtestimonv
Subject: Agenda Item No.3-Dr. Loi Chang-Stroman PL_REZ-2024-000061
Date: Monday, September 16, 2024 9:18:36 AM
Attachments: Dr. Loi Chana-Stroman PL-REZ-2024-000061 .pdf
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To the Leeward Planning Commission,
Attached is my testimony in support of Dr. Loi Chang-Stroman's Change of Zone
Application, Agenda Item No. 3 -Dr. Loi Chang-Stroman PL-REZ-2024-000061.
Mahalo for your consideration.
Ms. Barbara DeFranco, Chairperson
and Member of the Leeward Planning Cornmission
25 Aupuni Street, Suite No. 3
Hilo, HI. 96720
RE: Agenda Item No. 3- Dr. Lai Chang-Stroman PL-REZ-2024-000061
Sent Via Email, to: LPOteatirnony@hawailoountv,,..g.dy
September 16, 2024
John W. Rocha in Support of Change of Zone Application for Dr. Loi Chang-Stroman
Affecting Tax Map Key: (3) 7-7-009:008; Holualoa, North Kona
9:30 A.M. on Thursday, September 19, 2024 at the West Hawaii Civic Center, Council
Chambers, Building A, 74-50 Ane Keohokalole Highway, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Good morning Madam Chairperson and members of the Leeward Planning Commission.
My name is John Rocha and have been a resident of Kailua-Kona since 1980 and reside on
Walua Road, about a quarter of a mile from Dr. Loi Chang-Stroman's office. I am a patient
of both Dr. Joy McElroy and Dr. Loi Chang-Stroman. On more than a dozen occassions, Dr.
Joy McElroy has referred me to a MONS surgeon in Honolulu for treatment of both basal
cell and squamous cell carcinomas. More recently Dr. Ronald Moy, a MORS surgeon, who
practices in California has opened an office in Kona where he practices one week per
month. A recent referral to Dr. Ronald Moy by Dr. Joy McElroy for MOLS surgery on my
behalf, after weeks of waiting, resulted in a proposed appointment time much too far out
putting me at risk, so I elected to have the procedure done on Oahu much sooner.
With a shortage of skilled medical professionals in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, approving Dr. Loi
Chag-Stroman's application would allow patients, like me, to see a regularly scheduled
MOLS surgeon at West Hawaii Medical Group's office saving precious time and interisland
travel expense.
urge your approval of Dr. Chang-Stroman's application.
Mahal() for seeking input from the community and for your consideration.
Respectfully submitted,
John W. Rocha
76468 Wattle Road
Kailua-Kona, HI. 96740
orocia0Q7@outtook.com
(808) 936-9776