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GALDONES:Okay. Please state your name and your resident address. We shall start with Mr. Paw`U. PAW`U:My name is Mya Paw`U. My residence address is 16-320 Laniuma Street in Orchidland Estates, Kea`au, Hawai`i. I come before you today as not just as a resident of Orchidland but as the president of Orchidland Community Association, representing over 2,400 lot owners who are concerned of development, especially development that will be using our private roadways for ingress and egress. GALDONES:Mr. Paw`U, you may proceed with your testimony. PAW`U:Okay. Good morning. Thank you, Mr. Chair, Commissioners, Mr. Planning Director, ladies and gentlemen. I testify before you today as the president of Orchidland Community Association by power of a unanimous Board of Directors Resolution to represent the interests of over 2,400 property owners in Orchidland Estates. Our community encourages responsible development, development planned with the community input from the outset. Another proposed project, the one you referred to as the Vern Wood project, came before our board, came before this Commission; and because that developer had come to our board prior to coming to agreed to satisfy our committee concerns. We came previously to testify in favor of that project wholeheartedly. We wish we could do the same this morni The Applicant in today's matter, Orchidland Gulsons, LLC, was personally invited some months ago by myself to come to our board in a timely manner to discuss past promises and concerns over this project. They chose not to do so. They did not make contact with our organization nor give us any notification that they were seeking a permit renewal until this Wednesday, February 19, 2003. We did, of course, get the public information as published. This is a memorandum sent to Orchidland, I mean by Orchidland Gu property owners. They did not send it to us, even though we are the roadway owners that will be -, or managers who will be controlling ingress and egress. We were not notified by them nor given the information they gave to other property ow We, therefore, have had a limited opportunity to discuss our concerns with Orchidland LLC, Orchidland Gulsons, I'm sorry, LLC. It appears that the Applicant is seeking renewal regardless of and without our full community input, even though the project intends to utilize our private roadways and other resources and will have a substantial, mostly negative, impact on our community. The existing anchor tenant for the project began in 1984, almost underlying permit was granted over a decade ago, and many parame specifically the traffic concerns at Orchidland Drive and Highway 130. A different organization is now the developer. Unlike the original developer, this company is not locally based, nor are they a part of our community. A different set of plans, plans that 9