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application for a State Land Use boundary amendment and a change of zone from Ag -5 to Single - <br /> Family Residential. <br /> We are going to have the staff presentation after the public testimony. So when I call you name, <br /> please come forward and have a seat at the table. The first four will be, since we have four chairs, <br /> Cindy Coats, Lauren Burgett, and Cindy Coats is speaking — here comes Commissioner Bowman — <br /> George Error and Mark Van Pernis. I guess we have one more chair. Could Joel Cooperson please <br /> come forward? Could I ask you to use the microphone? And please raise your right hand. Do you <br /> swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Hawaii County Planning <br /> Commission? <br /> TESTIFIERS: I do. Yes. <br /> HOUSEL: Thank you. I guess starting with, on the right -. <br /> COATS: I'll be speaking for myself, Cindy Coats, as well as Lauren Burgett. <br /> HOUSEL: Okay. Could you give your name and address, please? <br /> COATS: Cindy Coats -. <br /> HOUSEL: Please use the microphone. <br /> COATS: Cindy Coats, 75 -631 Hua Ai Street, Kailua -Kona, 96740. <br /> HOUSEL: Thank you. Which agenda item are you testifying on? <br /> COATS: Hualalai Partners of Kona, the first item on the agenda. <br /> HOUSEL: Okay, please do. <br /> COATS: Hello, my name is Cindy Coats. As a long time resident of Kailua -Kona and a <br /> homeowner in the Kona Orchards subdivision, I have seen many changes over the years, some good <br /> some bad, and more often than not these changes are accompanied by "How did that happen ?" This <br /> Commission is where that happens. This is where the fate of Kailua -Kona is decided, the direction <br /> it will take, what will happen to our open spaces, and how Kona will work for future generations. <br /> My biggest problem with the proposed rezoning of the parcels in question is simply why? Why <br /> would we take a precious parcel of Ag land, located in what many books on Hawai`i consider to be <br /> the most scenic drive in West Hawai`i, rezone it to a dense urban subdivision? There must have <br /> been a compelling reason it was zoned Ag in the first place. And as long as there are 25,000 -plus <br /> approved lots sitting empty, that haven't been developed, not to mention the hundreds and hundreds <br /> of homes on the market, as well as proposed subdivisions of at least a thousand -. (The lights went <br /> out.) <br /> HOUSEL: Here we are. Sorry about that. <br /> 2 <br />