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we do understand that, we've been reading your testimony—but I would really encourage you,
<br /> we are not, we are not going to be making any decisions on the Agenda Item No. 2, we are really
<br /> just focused on you as a petitioner and do you have the right to intervene as a petitioner, so if you
<br /> could focus on Criteria A, B, C, D, E, as we talked about, that will really help us out.
<br /> P. MCMICHAEL: Well, how it would hurt me is I live, I live on this Alii Drive, we surf in the,
<br /> we surf all here, I have mo`opuna-s here. You do not have the right to allow 50 more units when
<br /> the next door property—you are not even asking for an EA, it's a 17 million-dollar project, it's a
<br /> major project. You are trying to reclassify the land from agriculture, which would only allow
<br /> one to two residence, and now you are going to put 50. This will impact us on the evacuation,
<br /> and we can't get out fast enough. There's been—and you saw my testimony, we can't get out, it
<br /> goes to a bottleneck situation. And I'm saying that you did not demand these people the
<br /> responsibility to do an EA and what we can all comment on, there is a comment period. But you
<br /> did make the next door neighbor, Alii Palms, here, very next door, and in their EA—(pointing to
<br /> her collage panel) right here, Pahoehoe, and there's, right here, it says it should be noted
<br /> notwithstanding the County approval with conditions that resulted from the SMA process, the
<br /> Police Department recommended in response to early consultation in the EA against any further
<br /> development on Alii Drive until Kahului to Keauhou Parkway has been completed and is open
<br /> for traffic. But they are getting away, try and skirt out the issue of the Ali`i Highway because
<br /> they are doing their affordable. And let me tell you about their affordable; it's not going to be
<br /> affordable in 20 years, because if you go to the Office of Housing, you will look into their file—
<br /> and I put that in the testimony—they are only committed for 20 years, and thereafter it's
<br /> anybody's game. I've never seen it living here since the early 70's that this is only allowed
<br /> rentals. Agricultural, you cannot do vacation rental unless it was done prior to the 70's. After
<br /> that, no.
<br /> There is a new draft for the Kona Community Development Plan that says no more Agricultural
<br /> to Urban in the SMA district. It's too dangerous for all of us. My mo`opuna-s go to training at
<br /> the Kailua Pier for swimming because we no longer have this pool in action. I drop them off and
<br /> I go to the gym. I give them warning, "If you have a tsunami warning, what do you do?" They
<br /> don't know what to do. You guys —in Indo you had zero warning—you have to get out there
<br /> quickly. And I, I wrote it in my testimony that the last tsunami warning, the traffic went up to
<br /> Kam III, there was an accident at the top, it took them five minutes to get up, it took them 45
<br /> minutes to get back down to Kahalu`u Beach to dead stop. Then there was Royal Poinciana,
<br /> everyone who lived on Royal Poinciana couldn't get out of their driveway, it went to a dead stop.
<br /> So I went to the traffic department and I said, "Wow, what happened? Is it because of the three-
<br /> way intersection that people could come and go?" And they said, "No, the cop said get out your
<br /> car and start running." Now when I feel an earthquake, I don't, I'm on Alii Drive, I get in my
<br /> car and I'm up the road; I don't want to get into this bottleneck situation. So, I'm saying—oh,
<br /> oh, yes, and also the Kona Community Development Plan in 2018 said Alii Drive cannot handle
<br /> any more development, it's going to get jammed in this emergency. So, yes, my life, my kids'
<br /> life, my mo`opuna-s life, not only now but in the future, if we don't have Alii Highway, we will
<br /> all be dead, and I want that listed there because if any of my mo`opuna-s die there, I'm telling
<br /> you you are going to be accountable for it because I'm warning you that this will happen. And I
<br /> don't take things for granted; I don't let my children drive the car to the shop, or I drop them off,
<br /> I'm going to make sure they have a car because I'm not taking things lightly. I've been in the
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