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GRAHAM:I had some questions to ask the Planning Director -. If they keep aside from this Special Management Area permit, if the County has any way to help bring around this initiative which the testifier has spoken of on the driveway going up to the property? GALDONES:Mr. Yuen. YUEN:We talked about this a little bit with Ki Emler at the other meeting, as to whether it’s a violation of something in County Code to have gravel wash off of a private driveway into the County right-of-way. If I recall correctly he said might be, but it’s not something that they normally enforce. But what they do is they will periodically, in this situation which is, of course, by no means uncommon, they regard this as part of their maintenance responsibilities and they periodically go clean it up. In a particularly bad situation they might make the private owner do something about it. But that’s the only angle as to any kind of control. KJOS:May I -? GALDONES:Any further questions from the Commissioners regarding to Mr. Dupont. Otherwise, I’ll move on to the next testifier. Then Ms. Kjos later on when I call the applicant you may present further testimony. Ms. Walls, could you please state your name, your residence address, and you may begin your testimony. COOK WALLS:My name is Kimi Cook Walls and I live at 59-458 Akaka Place; and I’m here to speak on behalf of my mother who is May B. Cook who lives in the property on Alii Drive. And I don’t have the TMK number but it’s just adjacent to this property. It is sort of kiddy-corner to it and right on Alii Drive. It was built in 1946 and it has stayed the same throughout all these years; and it is part of a trust and it probably will stay like this forever. The problem that I see here and it has been an issue since 1978, is that Mr. Holmes at one point took it upon himself to go onto my mother’s property without permission and cut down a huge tree leaving the rubble right there in the lot in which I didn’t-we didn’t know about it till we came back because it is their, my mother’s family home. He has not acted responsibly or acted respectfully toward our property or my mother’s property. And now that we have cleared up the lot there, all the people from that corner travel down through my mother’s property to go to the beach, instead of going around down the road. This has nothing to do with the high density, it’s a very high-density area and I understand that. But now there will be more people coming on from his property to access the beach through my mother’s property. And what I would like to see is for him to let us know that he will not further allow people, that he won’t allow anybody from his property come across our- my mother’s property all the time. Because it’s very disconcerting to people who are there staying at our house as a little vacation spot to have all these strangers coming in through our house. It’s just not quite right; and I think he needs to address that so we can- my mother can feel very comfortable about it. That’s a very minor thing, I think, don’t cut our trees down, leave us alone, and stay off our property. Thank you very much. 5