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financially expedient for their project, even if it compromises what they originally guaranteed you. Additionally, the final County Council approval and conditions are not a guarantee that all of the conditions will be followed and enforced. For all the residents of Punahele and Lower Kamana, the noise from vehicles, noise, car and burglar alarms, traffic in daily or night lives of the transient town house residents will seriously impact the lifestyle which most of us one time homeowners have paid into for a long time. Mr. Teramoto states that the project is high end, and undesirables will be kept out because the units will be priced too high for them to afford. It might be true if Mr. Teramoto's group retained ownership and control over the buildings, but as he stated in the second meeting, the subdevelopers will be responsible for the specifics since Western is only interested in doing the basic, minimum infrastructure and selling the properties to subdevelopers, equaling no control, no guarantees for what we want. Shoppers, though transient, will add to the general noise, congestion, and aggravation to where we live. Lights for these parking lots, security checks, and other attendant business functions like building burglar alarms that go off in the dead of night when there are power failures, malfunctions and maybe even sometimes when a burglar actually enters a building. I am not anti-responsible development when the developer listens and hears and acts in genuine consideration of the neighbors, human and animal, whose lives he impacts. Members of the Commission, there is no real plan in this project and, therefore, I oppose approval of the carte blanche plan proposed. I further ask that the Commission require the developer to one, familiarize themselves with the area so that we are comfortable that their plans are realistic. Address concretely and completely the issues on noise, drainage, sewage, traffic, impact on the Hawaiian hawk, etcetera that we raised in our meetings. Discuss the solutions and combine the meetings with all the affected areas so that we hear one story, not conflicting information. And then appear before the Commission with a real plan for discussion. More importantly, that the Commission not give blanket approval to the project and require that each -, and that you require each subdeveloper to be, to submit their individual plans for consideration and approval, using community informational meetings and Commission hearings as we're doing now. In a 10-year project, a lot of demographics, geographics, etcetera, can change and harmful effects are almost a given. The project is unacceptable and inappropriate, and I ask that you consider all that you heard today and will hear and reject this plan. Thank you. FUJIKAWA:Thank you. Commissioners, any questions on this testifier? Commissioner Springer, go ahead. 12