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FUJIKAWA:Thank you for your testimony. Paul, go ahead with your testi -. State your name and address. SUPP:Aloha, my name is Paul Patrick W. Supp. My address is 427 Street. I'm a resident of the Sunrise Estates Subdivision. I've been one of the residents of Sunrise Estates Subdivision that has attended the majority of the meetings that the developer has held for the entire community areas that they have talked to. I do want to personally thank the developers for including our subdivision and inviting us to attend their informational meetings. We are not in the required mailing area. They, therefore, did not have to notify us and they did. My concerns are many, but I'll address just a few of them. First of all, from the conception, from the first meeting that we, that I attended to the very last meeting that I attended with the developers, there has been a major change in a lot of the different points. A lot of the changes have been reactionary changes to concerns from the community. Access of roads. I personally have got a major concern that the Planning Department is recommending to the Planning Commission and to the developers that Ponahawai Street's the only major road in the subdivision that -, in that development area, that there's only going to be one way basically in and one way out. There had been talk of connecting into Wiliwili Street. The Punahele area people and the Lower Kamana and Crescent City area people felt they didn't want extra traffic through their area. So the developers stated at one of the meetings that, well, they might make a street abutting the Wiliwili in the development area and they'd put poles in the streets so it wouldn't be for through traffic but it would be available to the emergency vehicles if they needed to come through. The emergency vehicles could come to a dead stop and somebody would get out and take these poles out, similar to some of the ` poles we've got down on Bayfront area. As a resident of East Hawaii for 25 years, I'm really concerned that if we do that, if that's allowed in any plan of development that comes down the road in this project, the liability exposure to the County. As a resident of the County, I'm concerned about that, that if an emergency vehicle would have to stop for any reason at all on a street, that they are told they can take things out, and a house burns down or somebody dies or the police have a -, you know, somebody gets murdered, they are, you know, responding to something, that that's a potential liability issue that I think we all have to look at. Very concerned with the density, the increase in traffic, the increase on the strain on our Police Department, our Fire Department, and our Emergency Service Department. The developers have stated at different meetings that those departments have basically kind of signed off on the project, including Civil Defense. And a concern -, I was a resident in Sunrise Estates. My property backs to the stream with the flood canal behind it, and in the 2000 flood, back of my property line there's a nine-foot, approximately nine-foot high stone wall with a cyclone fence on the back of it. The water came within two inches of overflowing that back part of the stream in the 2000 flood that got the lower part of Sunrise Ridge. In the area on the map, the dark green area that we've been 16