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Let me just give you a for instance here, cause it's open to that page. On the issue of the relocation of the transfer stations, now why would that come up? Well, let's see. The transfer station in Pahoa, the access to that transfer station in Pahoa for the entire South and East District of Puna is through the Pahoa School complex. They drag, we drag our garbage through the school complex; and that's been there since day one. The school was built in 1908; and they moved the transfer station once a little further back. I was up there two weeks ago for the Senior Projects Day as a volunteer and it's disgusting. Okay, it's going to cost some money to move it. What choices? You want to move the school or the transfer station? Moving the Kea'au station, it is on Highway 130. Momentarily that is going to be at the transfer station nearly six lanes wide by the time you figure the shoulder, the turning lane, the two turning pockets left and right, two lanes of travel, a turning pocket and two more lanes of travel. If you pull out of there going Pahoa bound, you're going to have to make it across three lanes of traffic without getting hit. And they're coming at you at 55 miles an hour. Does that sound like a good scenario to anybody sitting here? It's already, in the last ten years, there's already been 8 people killed there. Is that enough? Do we have enough blood on the road? Oh, no, it's going to cost a couple of bucks to move it. And I'm not getting any more satisfaction on the State Highway's side either. Village and town centers, we didn't come up with this, folks. The County hired a planner, somebody with extensive, extensive experience in planning, who came down here and advised us how best we could go about solving our problems of getting these village and town centers built. We didn't come in making any demands. We said how do we fix this, how is the rest of the world dealing with this? This is what we were told, this is the one of the tools that you should have out there to deal with the problem. Well, I mean, if the guy didn't know what he was doing the County shouldn't have hired him. So that's the conundrum, either the man knows what he's doing or he doesn't know what he's doing. It's okay with one planning director, it's not okay with the next planning director. It's okay with one Council, it's not okay with another. I think you deserve, and I know my community deserves you to reject this. Send them a little letter that says bifurcate this, send this back in bit size pieces so we can understand what we're doing and why the community made the choices it chose to doing these things, and then we'll look at it. And I'm not objecting to having someone do a second look, or third look, whatever it takes to get it right. The Council didn't look at this. They simply know that this document takes some power away from them; and this new enervation of the Council doesn't like that. So I'm not going to drone on too much longer here. It's just, it's a real simple thing. We deserve better than we're getting, we're deserving better than what the Council is going to give us. We had a Council that adopted this document, I'm not complaining about the amendment process. I'm not complaining about a second, or a third, or a fourth look. This thing should be continued to be looked at; and the community's involvement should be kept up -to -date. We have huge problems out there. We have a growth problem that is out of control. The County does not control it, the State does not control it; and we're going to have to come up with mechanisms to deal with it. This doesn't get it, not even close. Thank you. 8