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ALAMEDA:Director Yuen? YUEN:Well first let me talk about that, that, the 2-person scenario that Mr. Gimpel raises. And we discussed that, youre not necessarily, and he and I discussed this as well. I think were in agreement now that youre not necessarily taking out that person that is in Ocean View. But now we have ascenario where you have 2 people who have jobs in Kailua Kona. Okay, one of them is already in Ocean View. Now, where is the other one living? If you dont give them a place to live in Kailua Kona where are they going to live? So, and the answer is theyre going to live in Ocean View or theyre going to live in wheres the next affordable, I dont know where the next affordable place is now. North Kohala median home price is $750,000, Waimea and South Kohala is over $500,000, Hamakua is over $400,000. This is the over, this is a reality that we have to deal with. And they have people, youre real fortunate you have a place to live I know peoples kids dont have a place to live. So we have to create places for people to live. The Suffolk and Puaa if they get off the ground thats great. I can, I can, theresdefinitelymoreofadeficitinhousingthanjustSuffolkandPuaainWestHawaii.And the final thing on the TIAR. The TIAR is going to show you how badly congested an existing road is going to be. This is really in, of all the places that you could put housing, this is going to be one of the best served by a road system. Youre going to have a 4-lane road on Kuakini coming up to here going into Kailua Kona and hopefully we get the Parkway and you have another highway to get out here. So its going to look better than any other spot as far as the immediate road connections to be able to get to a good highway from this location. ALAMEDA:Follow up Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA:Im wondering if maybe were asking the wrong questions and instead of saying where are these people going to live to get to the job in Kona is saying why dont we provide some jobs in Ocean View? And then they wont have to do that long commute. So maybe were, you know instead of looking at where are people gonna live, we should say well, lets look at where are people gonna work. ALAMEDA:Any other questions for our applicants? Our staff or our Director? Commissioner Watanabe? WATANABE:I got one follow-up question for Mr. Elmer (sic.) because Mr. Elmer (sic.) had referred to I guess somebody environmental concerns and the build out thats going to occur there and I was wondering if he had an opportunity to read condition W within the conditions. And it refers to noise abatement etc. for the Parkway thats projected to go in there and-. Because you had referred to some of the costs that might be passed onto the County and Im wondering if this condition satisfies you to some degree at least? ALAMEDA:And before you start Mr. Emler could you please state your name and address just for the record and your position in the County so we know for the record where you come out of. EMLER:My name is Kiran Emler with-. My address too? EXHIBIT A 11