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coastline. The input received in the last two years during the community readiness program for North Kohala development planning process, and this was the most well-attended community readiness program in all the years that we were receiving such support, there was tremendous out-turn by the public. Anyway, the input from the community at that time and the draft recommendations coming out of the focus groups are clearly not aligned with this project. In fact, there’s a recommendation calling for the State lands to be downzoned to Conservation. And right now there are two bills being introduced at the Legislature to do exactly that for the property immediately north of here. And the social environmental conditions under which the ordinance and permit were originally passed and issued have significantly changed and do not support any extensions. What the conditions support at a minimum is what Chris is asking for. I think there’s a real sound case to ask for more. I hope you guys will consider that and use your authority to do so. You know, the annual reports were not filed, the required progress was not made. There’s no takings issue here. I know there’s a lot of concern and talk about that at the last Commission meeting. For whatever reasons, the required conditions were not met. The applicant didn’t comply with the required procedures. There’s no takings here. There has been no subdivision granted. There’s no takings here. On Oahu I believe there is a resort zoning downgraded all the th way to Preservation, made it all the way to the 9 Circuit Court, there’s no takings. We need to quit being afraid of doing the right thing, especially when folks haven’t complied with the procedure. Let’s not be concerned. But there is certainly cause for concern about lawsuits that will force the County to take action to protect natural resources from the cumulative effects of development as allowed under the Clean Water Act, the Coastal Zone Management Act, and with regard to upholding the public trust doctrine as allowed for in our Hawaii State Constitution. No one has done it yet but the time is getting nearer if we don’t start doing some better planning. You know, one of the reasons we’re here today is because the applicant did not follow rules and that time to exercise the conditional entitlements expired. You know, but the real reason we are here is because over the decades for whatever reason the County has not listened to the community in terms of what their vision is and what they wanted for this coast. I think we alluded to it in our document and other testimony. This coast has the most numerous and intact archaeological and cultural sites in the State. It’s precious. It’s the last uninterrupted viewplane for the longest stretch in the state. There are many, many reasons to be looking at preserving all the parcels along this coast. You know, please hear us today. Please support the Planning Director’s recommendation to repeal Ordinance 97-102 and please use your authority to rezone it to a more, to zoning that is more aligned with what the community has asked for for decades.And I really, I’m very much a win-win optimistic type person. I love dialogue, I love discussion. And I appreciate the efforts by the Commissioners to encourage more discussion between the Planning Department and applicant. And yet at the same time, you know, what about more dialogue between the Planning Department and what the community has wanted or 30 years? EXHIBIT C 7