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GRAHAM: All right. Thank you, Commissioner Alameda. Mr. Farwell, would you come forward for a second, and Mr. Martinage and Mr. Nunn, would you come forward for a minute, please? So what I would like to do is restrict testimony to three or four minutes maximum from the Intervenor, Mr. Farwell, and from the Applicants’ side. And please restrain your testimony to dealing with what we heard from the public witnesses today. Thank you. Mr. Farwell, would you like to go first, please? And state your name and -. Excuse me, I should probably swear you in first too, if you folks will all raise your right hands. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth before the Planning Commission today on this agenda item? PARTIES: I do. GRAHAM: Thank you. Mr. Farwell, go ahead and give your name and address as you begin. FARWELL: I’m Brad Farwell, and I live at 82-6000 Napoopoo Road. Today I would strictly like to limit my comments to the points they made about our website and their website. Our website has a single bedroom vacation rental downstairs; it is rented on occasion. We do claim that it is peaceful, when I’m not running machinery, but we do also offer a refund to anyone who is staying with us in the event they can’t handle the noise, or the dryer, or what have you. As far as Michael and Greg’s operation, if you would look at their website, which I haven’t had copies of here, you would see that they have an existing and up and running vacation rental right now. It’s both the guest house with all the bedrooms and all the amenities. And I have no problem with that whatsoever. The problem I have is over this issue of noise, and the noise boils down to this -. GRAHAM: Sir, could you please restrain yourself rather than restate your case to talk to what you heard from the people who came to testify? FARWELL: Okay. All right. They came and testified today that I’m being disingenuous because I don’t admit that I make noise. I do admit I make noise. I conclude that they are being disingenuous because they are contending that they have a proposed bed and breakfast when in fact they have an existing vacation rental. The difference between the two is that a vacation rental on Ag land has no standing; they can’t complain about the noise I make next door. A bed and breakfast is a licensed inn – licensed by this Commission – for the purposes of offering rest and relaxation to people when they come to stay with them. They have a reasonable right as a bed and breakfast to ask that I not make noise. That is not going to happen in a farm setting. What I’m asking today is that – look at the reality; they have an existing vacation rental. I have no problem with that. They can make all the money they want. They are making all the noise they need to. There is no issue. The issue becomes when they have legal status to complain about my noise. That’s what I’m worried about. Thank you. GRAHAM: Okay. Thank you. Mr. Martinage, Mr. Nunn, would you care to take a few minutes? MARTINAGE: Sure. I’ll be happy to. Thank you so much. GRAHAM: Please identify yourself. EXHIBIT D 9