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MISSIEN:Thank you. Im interested in this whole process because I am the land owner of the piece of property directly across from the acreage in question. I dont live there now because we havent built there yet, but thats the reason we bought the land and that was our hope. I wrote the letter that I suppose you have in front of you, and Im really nervous. For me at least, theres a number of issues, but Im going to try to keep it brief, something I wasnt really able to do on my letter. And one of them is that I had hoped when I had when- my family and I had hoped, when we first heard this idea that one of the considerations that would be made by both the Trust and the Board once we figured out that they were 2 separate entities, was that they would consider the entrance not coming into the residential community at all, that because this was going to be a campus, possibly also a extended education facility, that the access be from the main road as it is right now for Parker School. Thats what I said in my letter. Other people have presented the same idea, Im not trying to say its only mine. But that is one thing that I think would- I think you use the word mitigate- would certainly go a long way towards lessening the impact on the community. To my mind there are 2 communities under discussion here. Theres the community that actually livesthere,theneighborhood,andtheresthecommunitythatusesthatneighborhood.Istillfall under that one. Ive been walking my sons there since they were babies and I could not have done that living where we lived. I still couldnt do that living where we live because of the traffic. It is primarily because that is a safe walking neighborhood. Shade is nice too. But its the neighborhood being the kind of streets it is that makes it so attractive to people like me and to all the other people who use it every single day. Its certainly the reason that made it attractive to us when we found a parcel that we were able to afford- to think that we might live there. And I think its important to recognize that- that this more than just a quiet neighborhood, that the impact is not simply to the people who live across the street, whether thats me, or somebody else, or whether its someone who lives down the road. Its to everyone who uses, who would use that that the traffic impact would be tremendous. And I think thats one of the main issues here, is that what would happen with that. And then another is that there seem to be 2 ideas going. And Im not sure if theres a partnership in place between the 2 bodies and between their ideas, but I think the potential is there that there could be. In my mind there should be. But if there isnt right now, I think there could be- they have a common goal, it seems to me, of education. And the facility that is already being used now for the 2 purposes - day education for day students and then evening education for extended st - there is a precedent for that in the public schools. They have the 21 Century Federal Program; I dont know if youre familiar with it but thats a national program. It is based on the use of schools, the use of public school facilities during non-school hours. They began at the Waikoloa School. They are becomingisland wide. They are becoming state wide based on national models. Theres a precedence to model from- it does not require separate facilities. In fact, it takes advantage of the fact that there are existing facilities not in use during after school, evening and weekend hours. Its kind of a win-win situation thats- this is, thats why the program has come into existence. And, I think its an excellent model, it actually exists already. And, it could be very good, to me, for all parties concerned, for the Trust, which seems to be looking for a financial venue, for the school which seems to be looking to expand, and for the community whichwould-thecommunity,theneighborhoodcommunity,thecommunityatlargewhich could benefit from both- from both things. Hopefully theyll not by damaging the existing site. I thinkImdone. 17