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in the short time that I've been here. I'm not very familiar with the way these proceedings go, but so that's why I'm here to find out. I bought my house on a cul-de-sac street, Lopeka Place, which butts up against to the proposed building site. My house is actually right on the border of the project. I'd like to show you some photographs if you don't mind. This is -. SPRINGER: Can you speak into the microphone, please. You can bring it with you. TISCHLER: So my house is right up against where this proposed building site is, right at the end of the cul-de-sac. I have some great concerns about this project and the size of it and how it will affect my house and apparently the other residents, I don't know, in the area. And my first concern is the quality of life issues that such a large project presents. This is going to be site preparation for years and road construction and, of course, when the actual houses are built, this is going to take a long, long time and it's going to really be a lot of equipment. I hear a lot of construction all around me going on, and when I drive down the highway I just can't believe the amount of construction that's going on here now, and so I'm just really kind of shocked coming to Hawai' i thinking, oh, this is such a beautiful, tropical place, and quiet and sleepy Kailua and everything, and gosh, it's all construction everywhere you go. My second concern is for the increase of traffic, and I guess that was expressed before, and how this is going to impact Nani Kailua, which is the main access road. I see a bus, school buses drive up Nani Kailua dropping off the kids every day, and I am concerned that there are safety j issues around much more traffic going up Nani Kailua to get to this site. And one of my biggest concerns is that because there is so many, so much building and it's happening so fast, I don't see the highway construction that's going along with this. I mean I'm from California, and we build these big freeways and everything and then we can build new housing construction sites, but I don't know how all of the roads, the current roads, are going to accommodate all of the thousands of new homes that are being built here. The din of traffic and the congestion of the cars is almost now unbearable, and I wonder if it could get any worse, and apparently that's what's going to happen here on this side of the Island. Another thing that I look at when I look at the proposal is that I don't see any parks or any buffer zones or anything, it just seems like everything is totally built out. As the gentleman was mentioning, that they made this really a dense construction site because they want to be able to pay for the water and the other access roads. But it seems like the lots 1 through 8, which border the Kona Heights, is a beautiful natural feature, and I've got some photographs if you are passing those photographs around, looking out from my lanai, like there's big, beautiful mango trees and there's beautiful rock formations and so forth, and I go out there sometime and I think, this is so beautiful and there are so many trees and beautiful birds that like sing, you know, in the morning time and it's just an absolute gorgeous place. To tear down these trees to -, and to build houses on these lots just seems like, it seems somewhat appalling to me, on such a nice feature of the land.