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Therefore, I'm requesting a current environmental impact study to address these challenges for <br /> our new post COVID Hawai`i. Thank you. <br /> VITOUSEK: Thank you very much. That concludes our public testimony. Can we have a <br /> motion to close public testimony please? Unless there are any questions, sorry are there any <br /> questions that any of the Commissioners have for the testifiers? <br /> VISTOUSEK: Commissioner Paishon-Duarte. <br /> PAISHON-DUARTE: Sure, the first question is to Mr. Ross Birch. One of the things that struck <br /> me in your in your testimony. You said that this project might provide opportunity to engage <br /> and educate responsible visitors. My question to you is how would this occur? How will the <br /> engagement and education of responsible visitors occur? Timeshare visitors I believe. <br /> VITOUSEK: Mr. Birch still available? <br /> JACKSON: No, it looks like he dropped off the meeting. Sorry. <br /> VITOUSEK: Perhaps we can ask that question to the applicant. <br /> PAISHON-DUARTE: May I ask another question? <br /> VITOUSEK: Of course. <br /> PAISHON-DURTE: Thank you. Next question I have is for I believe Mr.Nathaniel Kinney. <br /> My question is so you said in your testimony that time shared guests or time-shared guests spend <br /> more. I would like to know; I want to know what your sources for that information and in <br /> comparison, to who? To whom? <br /> KINNEY: It's just generally how I believe that time share guests spend more in the community <br /> versus people who stays at an Airbnb's and transit vacation rentals "---". But if you'd like, I can <br /> go back and find the source of exact data and get that back to you if you need that <br /> Commissioner. <br /> PAISHON-DUARTE: That would be very helpful. I'd like to better understand the economic, <br /> the overall economic impact of timeshare we get. Thank you. <br /> KINNEY: One thing that I think we can be sure of though Commissioner is that when guests <br /> don't stay in hotels or in timeshares and they stay in the community. There is a palpable lack of <br /> affordable housing is more transitive vacation units "---"affordable housing. So that's one issue <br /> that we do like to highlight is the difference between like a hotel or timeshare versus what is <br /> basically a proliferation of transit vacation units"---"valuable affordable housing. <br /> DONOHO: Commissioner, I'm sorry to interrupt but I might be able to provide a little bit of <br /> insight into that in terms of a research opportunity. On the Hawaii Tourism Authority's(HTA) <br /> website underneath the research tab. They did a report on timeshare visitors a specific <br /> 8 <br /> EXHIBIT B <br />