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SPRINGER:Doyou have any comments to make? MOYLAN:No, no comments. SPRINGER:Commissioners, do you haveanyquestions of the applicant? Seeing none, at this time Id like to call our member of the public forward. PAWU:Good afternoon, Chairperson and Members of the Commission. My name is Miya Pawu. My address is PO Box 1707, Keaau, HI. And I come before you today representing the community of Orchidland. I am the president of Orchidland Community Association, so my testimony is on behalf of the community and not just my personal belief. SIRACUSA:Excuse me, could you speak louder, please. PAWU:Imsorry.Thisisthefirsttime,Ithink,Ms.Siracusa,Ivebeenaccused for speaking too low. We are generally supportive of our members supporting their families without commuting, without adding to the burden on our roadways. Our questions regarding this application, and we were not, usually were given a copy of everyone of these because every property in Orchidland borders the roadways and we are, the Orchidland Community Association is the owner of the roadways or they administer the roadways. The roadways are owned in common by our members; and therefore we are the administrative body in charge of them. Our questions regarding this particular special use permit are noise, which I believe this Commission has addressed adequately. We do want to question how much traffic this will generate. Because if its going to, it appears that they do mostly wholesale orders and therefore there wont be a lot of extra traffic generated to the property. So that may be a minor concern; and maybe this gentleman could answer that. And our last question, and weve had problems with this in the past with other special use permits, is that we do feel its unfair to charge a commercial operation the same road maintenance fee as a single family residence. We have a fee schedule that has been established, voted on by our members at a vote counted by the League of Women voters, and duly approved by our entire membership. A project such as this would have a fee of approximately five times what a standard home would be. A standard home fee currently is $65, its going up to $70. So they would be paying road fees because of the trucks bringing things in and out that do put extra wear on our roads of approximately $300 a year. And I believe that that was put as a condition of their special use permit. If they pay the fees as the Board may designate, then we would have no further comments on this particular issue. And, in fact, we are in favor, again, of our members being able to support themselves within our community. SPRINGER:Thank you, Mr. Pawu. Are there any questions for the testifier, members of the Commission? Commissioner Siracusa. SIRACUSA:Well, I have two questions. One is for Mr. Moylan; and that is if that would be agreeable to him, that extra fee. And then Ill ask one of Mr. Pawu. MOYAN:Yeah, that sounds very reasonable. Thats fine. 4