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virtue of owning those sticks, that masonry, that glass. He has a lease. Mr. Squassoni gets no interest in the land underneath his unit, that portion of which he would construct and have the right to occupy. His interest is an undivided interest in the company that owns the entire parcel of land, Kalani Kai LLC. So the concern that we have that we’re creating a subdivision or we’re creating a condominium it doesn’t fly because this is not land ownership. This is entering into a relationship with other people in a company, investing in a piece of property that’s undivided and obtaining some of the divisible, legally divisible benefits that go with that property, and dividing them up in a way that is fair, that Mr. Squassoni thinks it’s fair, and in a way that promotes the special permit. All the same functions, all the same uses, all the same purposes of the special permit are being met here. It’s just that instead of Mr. Koob owning all these units, a company owns these units; and people are part of the company, and they fund the development of that, those structures. Did you have -? KOOB: Yes, I guess, one clarification. I know, when Jeff made his initial presentation he said that, as is stated here, that there are four rooms, each hale or in which case the clusters as we got approved as an alternative, have, there will be four rooms and as proposed the number of guest rooms include a staff room in each hale, you know, with the off, I’m sorry, where am I, each hale unit would accommodate two guests, a faculty and a staff member. So I think there’s this sort of confusion by us, Chris’s belief that there’s one room that’s for staff or faculty; but, in fact, I think the consideration that Sidney Fuke was making was that a faculty person was also often a guest. And we have, so three of the rooms are for, and it goes on to say, in other words, “So as proposed the number of guest rooms, including the staff room in each unit, would be considered as three rooms.” That’s because there’s two guests and a faculty person, and then there’s another room for a staff person. So we consider two of those rooms to be for a long-term kind of resident people that are really helping steward Kalani and involved in the programs, the fact, the person who’s in the faculty room and the person who’s in the staff room. And those are the rooms that we’re saying this is what’s available for people to, you know, have an interest in. Because what we’re doing is building more responsible community, more responsible stewardship, by people actually having those sticks, and owning them and having some attachment to the whole organization. It means that we can have, what we all want is more permanent residents here who can really add to the community, people who have the qualifications that Paul has, people who like him become committed in organizations like Imua Puna Makai, like Kalani ended up hosting the elections this year because we’re involved and we want to be involved in the community. And the big factor of this too is instead of dividing these 94 acres into Ag-3 lots that they could have been divided into sensibly because it’s Ag-3, we’re not putting our energy into that.That would be, for me, a complete destruction or unnecessary destruction of the land. By going with the special permit, we’re able to contain this within 15 acres so that we preserve all that property around, that it can be used for agriculture and preserve forest purposes. It’s just a whole other way of looking at land development. I began my career in New York in Urban Planning Committee, a New York private nonprofit organization; and I started working with planners way back then. I’ve worked in the State as the arts coordinator for this island for the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts; and I’ve taught at both university campuses. I feel that we’ve had so much contact and so much support in making this happen, in making it happen in a unique way that serves the public. So I really urge your support to allow this to happen and allow us to have more responsible stewardship. EXHIBIT C 9