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DtC 9't~4 COED Community Organization for Educational Development trr~. ~ ure co+~~A.~+ Testimony before Land Use Commission Hearing on Thursday, December 9, , Hapuna Prince Beach Hotd. For I-Iiluhilu's Palamanui development My name is Lionel Kutner and, as Diana just said, with her I was co-founder and rccar[ring President of COED, the Community Organization for Educational Development, during the 1980's and early 1990'x. I spear is Support of Hiluhilu's intern to provide the communities of West Hawaii with a practical start to building a University. First, let me say I am honored to represent this august, diverse collection of concerned personalities who have come together again as COED, to foster UH expansion here. Many of these arc more eloquent in this cause than I. We agree the University Center's activities should move north at the soonest opportunity, so it will be more accessible to Kohah>, Waimea and Waikoloa students and faculty as well as those from Kona. We are grateful for this proposal. It is an opportunity fbr West Hawaii and for the University system and we appreciate the work Iiiluhilu has done so far to partner with the State. We Gave reviewed the second version of the UH Memorandum of Understanding with Hiluhilu and accept that it is an outline at this stage, a work in progress. Detail to be determined. The written commitmert by Hiluhilu provides the University with hook up capability for essential services not yet availabk on these lands; road access, potable water, wasterwater treatmeru facility, power, phone and cable. This hook-up would be at the point where their pedestrian friendly, village-commercial property abuts State land. The northwest point of the University's 500 acre `square' Primary parcel In conversation as recently as yesterday, however, Hiluhilu's planners felt they could enwrre these services were provided, along with some build out of the proposed "Main Street", ezteadiug several hundred feet south from the planned Palamanui village. That extension is important. By coming farther south along this corridor we can see a signifidat benefit to the University, and this thinlang gives grrrat relied because I don't think that northwest comer is necessarily where a planner would start to design our University campus.