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And I am one of the families, we are the eighth generation that lives on that land. And I'm happy that these people are not, are dropping the permit, because eight generations we've been planting on that place. Like how my daughter has sta daughters, so I'm an eighth generation that's still planting and living on that land. People think that they're not living there, but they are living on that land. So this is the disturbance that we are fighting for. Mahalo. Thank you. GALDONES:Okay. Commissioners, any questions of Ms. Elia? If none, Mr. Peard. My name is John Peard. My address is P.O. Box 1545, Phoa. My wife Kathleen and I were the ones that did the contested case procedure here. I clearly want and need to carry on with that. To me, that's a hundred bucks well spent. I actually came here, I was hoping Justin Hilton would be here. I wanted to thank him for deciding to withdraw. Obviously he thought hard about the input from the neighbors, and it was all the neighbors that did protest this, not only right around the project but up and down the road. I think that speaks to the process that you have here and encouraging wide advertisement of these kind of special permits and how interested the neighbors are in what's going on in the neighborhood. So I'd encourage you to support and expand the number of people you notify in terms of the radius to a development project and increase the visibility of your advertisement of special permits. Because these are the kind of developments that can create a real change in character of the neighborhood. We felt strongly that this development would change the agricultural nature of the area and start down the road a real different kind of road that the zoning didn't support and the neighbors didn't support. As far as the issue of the letter that we, Kathleen and I submit issue of the existing buildings. And we were concerned about what would happen to those and thought it would be reasonable to have some sort of timeframe on that where someone checked back and make sure that he took care of them or dwelling that's allowed on the premises. And I'm comfortable with handling that through a complaint or waiting to see what happens in a little while and checking in, whatever is easiest for you. The obvious concern was that it ended up a single family home and not five families, a multi-family situation, or dwellings that had the same, some of the same effects that a resort type development would have. GALDONES:Thank you. Director Yuen, would you like to reiterate your earlier statement regarding the complaint that, or the concern that's being raised by some of the testifiers regarding the five other dwellings? YUEN:Well, I don't think, again, if they want us to treat this as a complaint, then we will look into it. I, looking through the file again though, I do notice that Building Department red flagged the structures because they were begun without a building permit. So, supposedly, work is supposed to have stopped on those structures. 7