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STIMLER:Im Lynn Stimler. I live at 65-122 Puuki Street. My house willbe the closest property to the school. GALDONES:Ms. Stimler, did- do you have only a question or are you going to be making a statement? If you going to make a- if youre going tomake a testimony, then I need to swear you in; but if you have a question, I can just address the question. STIMLER:My question is- preliminary is that will I be allowed to testify in both places that-? GALDONES:Yes, you may. STIMLER:Then I would like to-. GALDONES:Okay-doyouswearoraffirmtotellthetruthonthismatternowbefore the Hawaii County Planning Commission? STIMLER:I do. GALDONES:Your name and address please. STIMLER:My name is Lynn Stimler, 65-122 Puuki Street in Kamuela, 96743. GALDONES:You may proceed with your testimony. STIMLER:My house is at the end of Puuki Street. It is exactly opposite from the current Parker School and it will be right behind the new school. I feel very strongly in favor of the usage of the land for Parker School. I have a couple of concerns. My number 1 concern is the lack of a master plan and coordination between the use of the Trust and the School Board use. I have been faithfully to the School Board meetings. I think theyve been very well done. In each meeting Ive had the sense that the Trust is oppositional at the best to the plans of the School Board. We have a huge- the majority of this land is unplanned for with no explanation of what will happen. What if the school wants to move K through 12 over and the Trust says no? Were going to start out with a road thats in a plan and no promise of the middle land. That really concerns me. Number 2, just to be simple, my 2 children are 6 and 7. We currently walk to our school. I can tell you, I hold their hands as we walk down the street and Kapiolani is already dangerous to walk to school. We have no sidewalks. Weve twice encount- we walk on the side of the street were meant to walk on- weve twice had very rapid traffic pushing us over. Im really concerned about that before any of this starts. I also think that maybe theres another way to route traffic even though it might- may impact my neighbor Henry Kawaihae and I more- to route traffic around the back end. Maybe thats a better solution than Kapiolani. But the only way we can do that is if we have a really good coordinated use. This is the heart of a residential neighborhood. An old established neighborhood that overlaps next to the commercial. Were 18