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please don't state opinions or engage in substantive discussion. Again, this ten minutes is for <br /> fact-finding only. Commissioner Van Pernis, you have ten minutes. Please proceed. <br /> VAN PERNIS: Thank you. <br /> VITOUSEK: You're on mute, Commissioner Van Pernis. <br /> VAN PERNIS: Can you hear me now? <br /> VITOUSEK: I can. Go ahead. <br /> VAN PERNIS: I'll ask this of the Planning Department and/or the applicants. It would go a long <br /> way toward satisfying the public if you could save trees, or if they gotta go, replace them <br /> elsewhere with keiki trees. Is that possible? <br /> KERN: Zendo Kern from the Planning Department here. That's not a request that we would <br /> opine on. That would be a request [inaudible] respond to. <br /> VAN PERNIS: Ok. <br /> KERN: Excuse me, the applicant, Parks and Rec. <br /> VITOUSEK: Yep. Would the applicant please respond to the commissioner's question? <br /> KOMATA: Sorry, could you restate the question? <br /> VITOUSEK: He's asking if you'd be willing to, if you can avoid cutting down the trees. If that's <br /> a possibility, and if you cannot, would you be willing to plant new trees, keiki trees, to replace <br /> them? The ones that were cut down. <br /> KOMATA: Yes. There, a couple of trees that we can't avoid removing, but we would be open to <br /> the idea of planting new trees. I did want to point out that the trees that we're removing are not <br /> along, are not the closest to the ocean on the property. They're pretty much the furthest inland <br /> from the coastline. So, I did want to point that out as Alex's presentation showed. <br /> VITOUSEK: Commissioner Van Pernis. It's off mute. We can, we can hear you. You're on <br /> mute now, Commissioner Van Pernis. I see you, Charles. Hold on one second. I'll stop you there. <br /> Charles, please go ahead if you've got anything to add to that question. <br /> JURY: Yeah,just a follow up to the question on the trees. The current plan that Roy had up on <br /> his screen in his presentation, there's currently three milo trees that are proposed to be replaced <br /> and installed because of the displacement of those existing trees. <br /> VITOUSEK: Milo trees? <br /> JURY: Milo trees. Yes, sorry. <br /> 8 <br /> EXHIBIT C <br />