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KUBOTA:Mr. Paw`U, one more question for you. In your testimony, I thought I understood you to say that traffic, increase in traffic was a major, one of the major problems. Because of residents from other communities com I mean that road that is privately owned to access to the Wiki Wiki Mart; and therefore you expect an inundation of more traffic when the full-blown plans are developed. PAW`U:That is very correct-. KUBOTA:Okay. PAW`U:Ma'am. KUBOTA:Might these people trafficking your private road, private owned road, be destined somewhere else? PA`U:We have personally observed them coming to the Wiki Wiki Mart and gas station. Personally, I have observed them as have many other board members and members of our community, we have watched them come through there. They are -. And we've tracked them, actually. They do come -. KUBOTA:Well, I'm sure some of them but yeah, -. PA`U:A large number of them. Obviously, when our own residents themselves of these convenient services, it would not be something chargeable to a developer. That is our responsibility to provide ingress and egress for our residents, including to the Wiki Mart and gas station. Our concern is non-residents, primarily, using our roads who do not pay impact fees; and we expect the developer, who is going to be producing revenue from this development, to pay those fees Again, our other impact is trash. We did not know about that years ago because we didn't have that fast food in Puna. McDonalds has since been there. We have noted there is a substantial change in the environment; and we feel like the substantial changes should be addressed by this body. Lastly, the traffic on Highway 130 from the time of this initial permit to now has increased substantially. I don't have figures at hand, but my guesstimate would be that it's probably tripled, therefore, the, or more. So the underlying information that was used for the existing permits in 1984 and 1990, the permits are based on very obsolete information. And considering again that it's already an expired permit, we feel that one of the appropriate things would be to deny the permit and ask the developer to start over. We are, we realize that's costly for them and are willing to work with them to incorporate our needs into the existing permit, for their convenience, and for their cost saving measures. However, we do want to have our concerns codified by the Commission so that we have, again, a legal leg to stand on showing that the development must meet our requirements. 22