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Pepeekeo Community Association P. O. Box 877 Pepeekeo, Hawaii 96783 September 16, 2004 RE: Special Management Area Use Permit Application SMA 03-009, SMA 03-016 Applicant: Continental Pacific, LLC TO: Members of the Planning Commission, County of Hawaii Aloha Members of the Planning Commission: It has been 1 year and 1 day since I presented testimony to you in support of the approval for Continental Pacific, LLC's SMA application. Requests for Continuances have been granted and agreed to for the sake of allowing community discussions to occur among ourselves as well as with the landowner. For that courtesy and consideration, we thank you for your support and your foresight of allowing the healthy growth of our community. We have since been involved in many meetings and discussions that have permitted the exchange of information, concerns, visions, values and respect for all parties involved. The knowledge, education and presentations of opportunities for individuals as well as community growth has been beneficial in identifying the strengths and expertise of many valuable individuals in our community. We have successfully made known the community's desire for fishing access in perpetuity along the Pepeekeo Coast, the completion of Phase II of the Kulaimano Recreation Complex and the need for affordable housing. The willingness by Continental Pacific LLC to actively participate in the many discussions and their financial contribution to assist in realizing the community's priorities provides a credible basis that these priorities will be partially met. It is the expectation that continued discussions, concessions and compromises will take place to bring about the results that will satisfy the community. We applaud the past, on-going and future efforts of our community to realize that change in inevitable. It is how we embrace or resist it that makes a difference. We have realized that by collaboratively working together for the benefit of the whole community is the way to efficiently effect change. This we are learning and implementing We commend the efforts of Continental Pacific, LLC, the Planning Commission, the Planning Department, our legal counsel and the COMMUNITY in these efforts. To that end, the Pepeekeo Community Association supports, requests and encourages your approval for SMA 03-009 and SMA 03-016. Respectfully submitted, Lorraine Mendoza, U President