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engineer; he said, We have no obligation for accessibility. Id like to inform you that the Americans with Disabilities Act, the ADA, became law in 1990. Thats 17 years ago. The requirements and regulations that apply to the County are over 15 years old. You are obligated to build accessibles according to the ADA standards. The idea of the ADA was that we may not be able to fix all past building, but the building environment will be accessible from now on. Now an hour ago I heard the County tell me accessibility is not an issue with them. Im outraged. Quite frankly, suing the County isnt good enough. You are all 17 years older, and I assure you as you get older, access will impact every single one of you. If we are still not feeling that we have no obligation to build accessible environment, Im outraged that you are not feeling that you need to follow the law. As far as Im concerned, if the lower level engineer is saying, oh, just putting steps, it reflects the higher-ups and the mayor, the administration, and all leaders of the Planning Department. If thats their attitude, at best they should all be fired immediately. ALAMEDA:Thank you, Ms. Golden. Thank you for your testimony. And thank all of youforcomingtoday.Andallofthecommentsthatweremade,everyCommissionerhasan opportunity to revisit the testimony when we have discussion. So even if we are not kind of hashing it out or talking about it now, we are all making notes or mental notes of the testimony, and Im sure it will come up in our discussion when we deliberate. So thank you so much for your testimony again. We dont have any other testifiers, but it is 12:30. So I would like to, if there is no further objection from my fellow Commissioner, I would like to break for lunch, and reconvene at -. One thirty? Hows 1:30? An hour? One forty-five? Okay, well reconvene at 1:45. Thank you very much. RECESSEDThe Chair called a recess at 12:25 p.m. RECONVENEDThe meeting reconvened at 1:43 p.m. ALAMEDA:The Hawaii Planning Commission will now return in order. Thank you for waiting. And now that we are re-energized, we can move forward with this agenda item. Id like to call up the applicant or his representative. Please come forward. Please raise your right hands. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth now before the Hawaii County Planning Commission? APPLICANT PARTY:I do. ALAMEDA:Thank you. Could you please state your names and addresses for therecord? LIM:Thankyou,Mr.Chair.MynameisStevenLimfromCarlsmithat 686 Waianuenue Avenue in Hilo. With me to my right is Mr. Curtis DeWeese who is the principalforSunStone.TomyleftisMr.GregoryMooerswhoisourplanningconsultant,a chief planner. Also with us today is Ms. Sanoe Kauhane who is one of my law clerks, whos out oftheUniversityofHawaiiandspendingsometimewithusthissummertotrytoseewhatthis area of law is all about. Weve also got Dr. Ron Terry back there who did our visual analysis, andDavidBillswhoisourprojectengineer.Priortodecidingonit,youknow,thishasbeena long process for us; we are nearly two years into the process on this SMA permit. But and we will start out our SMA presentation shortly with Mr. Mooers kicking it off but I think for 15EXHIBIT C