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GALDONES:You did well. Thank you, Ms. Missien. Commissioners, do we have any <br />question of Ms. Missien? Otherwise, thank you. Are there any other testimony? Anyone in the <br />public wishing to provide testimony before the Commissioners at this time? <br />COPMAN:I€m back. One thing that€s really interesting about these applications, and <br />I can€t separate them because it is a single landowner, is that this is essentially an application to <br />expand an existing school campus and yet nowhere in either of these use permit applications is <br />there a plan of the existing school campus. So if you think about your local elementary school <br />wants to expand onto an adjacent parcel and yet there€s no roadway connection from the existing <br />campus to the new parcel, it€s a little odd. And in this use permit application, it clearly states <br />that the new facility will be used for Parker School students. So, if there is space there and there <br />are new facilities that the students would be able to take advantage of, such as a photo shop, art <br />studio, these kids will be walking down the road to get to this facility. And, if you look at the <br />use of the parcels- it€s a 12 acre piece of land owned by a single landowner- it€s adjacent to the <br />existingcampus.Someofthesamefamiliesaregoingtohaveelementaryschoolkidsinthenew <br />proposed campus, as well as high school kids. There€s no internal roadway circulation. And <br />we€ve got buildings on either end with no connection between them, and yet these facilities are <br />supposedly going to be used by the students of this school. So it just makes sense for me as a <br />neighbor. I have no objection at all to community education, in fact I was the Director of the <br />North Hawaii Community Learning Center. I ran community education programs in 6 public <br />st <br />schools. I ran the 21 Century Grant. I served over 6,000 kids. I believe in community <br />education passionately. And I think it€s almost ironic for me to sit here and object to this, except <br />that I have one problem with it, I don€t want to see the character of our neighborhood ruined by <br />unnecessarily having all this traffic on our road. There certainly is a possibility to design this <br />well, to lay it out well, to plan it well, to implement it well. The entire community supports <br />Parker School. We have no problem with them opening, expanding their facility, opening an <br />elementary school. We just don€t want more traffic on an already dangerous road. And that€s all <br />there is to it, it€s very simple. And, that€s why I€ve objected to it, cause I€d like to see them plan <br />theroadwaycirculationsothatwedon€thavedangeroustrafficcirculatingthroughthe <br />neighborhood. It€s a lot of people, it€s a large piece of land, there€s potential for it to be <br />expanded over the years to accommodate their entire existing campus; and I€d like to see it <br />planned well from the start with a road that is safe for everyone. And that€s why I objected. <br />Does anyone have any questions? <br />GALDONES:Thank you, Ms. Copman. Commissioners, any questions of Ms. Copman? <br />If none, thank you. <br />COPMAN:Thanks. <br />GALDONES:Last call. Okay. <br />EMLER:Chairman Galdones. Before we close this -. <br />GALDONES:Mr. Emler -. <br />EMLER:Close this item, sorry. In a contested case, DPW that I know of doesn€t <br />generally get called in. So I€d like to make a correction now that I have an opportunity for the <br />record if possible. There was a revised supplemental comment that was made by the Department <br />18 <br /> <br />