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MARTINAGE: Oh, I apologize. Sorry about that. Michael Martinage, 82-5990 Napoopoo Road. The issue is that a vacation rental and the business that Brad is operating next door since 2001 has all of the components of what we have put together in our agriculture plan in our 5.6 acres of land. We are not doing anything different other than bringing it to a level that we are able to allow our bed and breakfast as it maybe support the growth of agriculture. So with that said, the noise level will be the same on any agriculture property. Now the fact that Brad had mentioned before that he made so much noise that you could not survive or you would not be able to live in our area without earphones, etc., his vacation rental is within feet of his mac nut factory; also, the fact that he has determined, as our testifier said that they have found it to be peaceful in our property, he has gone on record and said that he operates at 115 decibels. Gentlemen, this is way over – I’m just saying for the noise level, so that we know. So with that said, we are not expecting anything different or any other treatment other than the same product mix in the revenue streams that we seek. We had recently – and this is very important - . GRAHAM: Recall we are supposed to be limiting testimony to what we heard from the people who came. MARTINAGE: Okay, I’m sorry. We did have the Real Property Tax of County of Hawaii come out and walk our property in its entirety; they have changed our status from a half pasture to four -. IWASHITA: Point of Procedure, Mr. Chair. GRAHAM: Excuse me. Commissioner Iwashita? MARTINAGE: - of agriculture. IWASHITA: My motion limited the remarks to the comments that were made at public testimony, so I’d like Chair to -. GRAHAM: Yes. I also feel you’re straying from that, you know, you did hear public testimony. MARTINAGE: Okay. I apologize, I apologize. It’s very important to us. GRAHAM: Okay, thank you. Well, sir, you’ve got to keep it real brief because I want to keep for the few minutes. NUNN: That’s fine. I’ll keep it very brief. Just to support what they had said, he is doing the same thing on his property. We are talking about multiple income streams here in order to support agriculture.There is no doubt that we moved from a half-acre pasture to four and three and three-fourth acres of in-use Ag land. We are moving the land even closer to what it was – oh, away from what it was, which was overgrown land – to agriculture, which is what the zoning is. In the past record there were no complaints as far as bed and breakfast making complaints towards Ag land, and there are also tons and tons of other bed and breakfast in our area that also went through this legal process and were approved on Ag land either on macadamia nut farms or on coffee farms. We are doing the same thing that he is doing; he is EXHIBIT D 10