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questions for you, if there are no questions or questions have concluded, please log out of Zoom platform and switch to the YouTube channel if you wish to observe the meeting. Okay. So, we will start with Jon Clark. Mr. Clark? I can't hear you. JACKSON: Mr. Clark is on mute. REPLOGLE: You're muted. Where did he go? Oh, there you are. You're muted, I don't know if you can hear us? KERN: If you're having a hard time on your phone star six (6) sometimes works to unmute. REPLOGLE: You're still mute. Don't stress, why don't we go on to the next person while you try work it out and you may speak when you're ready. So, we'll move to Aubrey Hawk. HAWK: Aloha Commissioners. Thank you so much for this opportunity to testify regarding the application of Raja Daggula to change its zone from RS-20 to CV-10. I am a resident of Volcano Village and I also serve as an officer on the board of the Volcano Community Association. I also serve as a member of the Board of Directors of the Friends of Volcano School of Arts and Sciences, and I am a volunteer instructor at that school for the international program Roots of Empathy. I am opposed to this application: Our community, at least those of us who've been lucky enough to find out about this issue, we feel blindsided by what we see as a very sneaky attempt to circumvent Hawaii County's new law pertaining to vacation rentals in residential communities. I believe any rezoning to commercial in this area, if it happens at all, should be for the general benefit of the community and not to line the pockets of one non-resident developer. Perhaps it had been technically possible and technically legal to change zones to commercial in this area and add yet another lodging facility to our small village, but it certainly does not adhere to the spirit of the new vacation rental law which was designed specifically to stop the proliferation of vacation rentals in residential communities. We are a small quiet rural community. Though we may lack the resources and inside knowledge that allow this developer to hire consultants,both of whom are former high-level employees of the Planning Department, we do know what is right and it is neither ethical nor pono to bring this absentee owned vacation rental into our community. I implore you, please do not approve this application. Thank you. REPLOGLE: Thank you. CLARK: Jon Clark, can you hear me now? REPLOGLE: Okay, go ahead please. CLARK: Oh great. Aloha to everyone, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. I'm going to keep it very short, she just articulated pretty much what I wanted to say. This is wrong, this is wrong. This guy is coming in here, bought the lot, I'm Jon Clark, I live in Volcano. I own the property directly behind the applicant. I own two (2) lots back there. The whole thing with rezoning a commercial so that he can come in and put a mini hotel, which is exactly what he wants to do. 2 EXHIBIT A (DRAFT)