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MORINOUE: Thank you for this opportunity. I'm testifying for two (2) items, number 2 and number four(4)today. I find a lot of— VITOUSEK: Would you like to testify for both of those now or would you like to take number 4 when it comes up? MORINOUE: Um' I'd like to do them now because I have to go to work. VITOUSEK: Okay, go ahead. Yes. MORINOUE: Alright. Number 2, I have a lot of red flags and concerns. Time extension is one of them. Also, Agricultural twenty (20) acres being parceled down to five (5) acres rezone those districts. Those are alarming to me because it does change the archaeological survey and other steps to ensure that we have proper management and land usage. So that's very concerning to me. The deletion of requirements to provide a copy "—" information for conservation plans filed with the Kona Soil and Water Conservation District. Also, erosion and sediment control issues and the deletion of Condition J(Archaeological Surveys). Having testified and then witnessed to many things that are voting in a very non to me a structural process that you know I'm kind of echoing Aunty Simmy's testimony here is really backwards thinking. Does not provide a regenerative pathway forward for our local people, our land and even to move us towards circular economy conversations. So, there's a lot of red flags for number 2 for me and increase in traffic and water usage as well as water filtration. Um' number 4, I absolutely support Bill 194 to not allow the Planning Director and its department to extend expired permits here in Kona especially. It has reaped a lot of misfortune and havoc on our environment. We are not catastrophically prepared. We have major floodways that are being subject for development. Massive amounts of archaeological sites that are being destroyed as well as not being properly looked at and viewed and archived. And an incredible amount of affordable housing crisis and work force issues they all tie in together. So, for those reasons they were stopped for a reason, and we should look at those reasons and revitalize if it is in fact makes any good sense to revisit and allow those permits to pass. Mahalo. VITOUSEK: Mahalo. The testimony ended at 9:46 a.m. Respectfully submitted, Melissa Dacayanan-Salvador Secretary to Boards and Commissions 2 EXHIBIT D (DRAFT)