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Our family has been involved in 2 accidents on Waiono Ranch Road which is poorly designed <br /> and substandard. In August of two thousand nineteen (2019) I was driving home in my Nissan <br /> Titan and met head on with a Palani Ranch employee, who was driving a Ram twenty-five <br /> hundred (2500). These are big trucks and big trucks go up and down this road every day. We <br /> were driving cautiously but met at a blind bend just below our drive, a bend that I know very <br /> well and thought I was prepared for. The stretch of road from the Hickey's drive to the spot <br /> where that accident occurred is less than a quarter of a mile and is one of the steepest in Waiono. <br /> Our daughter, driving home school in our Honda Civic, was involved in a near head on by <br /> another truck operated by a Bolton Incorporated employee just 9 days later. This accident <br /> happened on the worst blind curve in Waiono which also must be approached very slowly both <br /> uphill and especially downhill at all times. I've had many close calls in that curve, our Civic was <br /> totaled in that accident and our daughter suffered a concussion. <br /> During the day coffee land employees, Bolton Incorporated employees, and Palani Ranch <br /> employees are often pulling large trailers full of saddled horses travel up and down our road <br /> while at work. There a few places for the trucks pulling these trailers to get off safely and they <br /> cannot back up. Heavy rains pound Waiono frequently cannot make the road just below Queen <br /> Coffee virtually impossible to cross and it can get worse than that. From the middle of August <br /> through the middle of September 2015 it rained over twenty-nine (29) inches in Waiono. In the <br /> afternoon of August seventeenth (17'') our flood zone turned into a raging river and that <br /> happened over and over again in the days to come. This water was coming directly through and <br /> off the Hickey property into ours. We lost over forty (40) feet of driveway as a result of these <br /> rains, these rains also destroyed approximately thirty (30)yards of the main road and left huge <br /> sections of asphalt piled upon one another. This was cause by the massive amount of water <br /> running down the road even with the runoff charging through David Wilkinsons coffee land, it <br /> took months to repair that road. <br /> On Saturday, the twentieth(20'') of last month from just after 4:30 to about 5:40 in the <br /> afternoon, excuse me, in the afternoon we had a rain bomb that dropped three point two (3.2) <br /> inches of rain at our house. It was the hardest rain that I ever experienced in the eighteen (18) <br /> years I've lived in Waiono. There were streams running along both north and south sides of our <br /> house. In the first 3 months of twenty twenty-one (2021) we measured thirty point eight(30.8) <br /> inches of rain. That's all I have, thank you. <br /> VITOUSEK: Thank you, we will move on to Aislinn Chalker? <br /> CHALKER: Hi. <br /> VITOUSEK: Please state your name and area of residence. <br /> CHALKER: My name is Aislinn Chalker, I live in Waikoloa. I am a professional photographer, <br /> born and raised here in Hawaii and I've been working in the event industry for over thirteen <br /> (13) years. I am an adamant support of Kay and Doug Hickey getting approval for their Special <br /> Use Permit for Sunshower Farms. The main reason is that there are very, very, few wedding <br /> venue options for kama`aina. Here on the Big Island, locals are priced out of resort weddings or <br /> they are competing for dates with people from the Mainland planning destination weddings. I <br /> 6 <br /> EXHIBIT B <br />