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HATA: Antu Harvey, would you like to start? <br /> HARVEY: Yes. Good afternoon, this is Antu Harvey from H61ualoa, and I do not support any <br /> extensions. We should not be on autopilot and apply rules and policies in place for 10 or 20 <br /> years ago when we now know they clearly don't meet our present and future needs for people, <br /> culture, and `aina. The land development is for investment and profit. Delays carry business <br /> risk that the ground rules and goals will move. Please don't grant grandfathering extensions. <br /> Start over. <br /> I previously testified on this matter. Other testifiers like Auntie Simmy speak far better about the <br /> cultural, historic, public safety, and livability concerns. Today I'd like you to consider an <br /> additional reason to reconsider this application as designed; it's about the County's fiscal <br /> irresponsibility to this and other cul-de-sac subdivisions imposed on our taxpayers. Growth <br /> should be incremental and solvent. This development is going to create too many unfunded <br /> maintenance obligations going forward. It will add 65 houses on 7,500-square foot lots. <br /> Low-density suburban living requires more miles of roads, sidewalks, water mains, sewer mains, <br /> electrical lines, stormwater systems than they will ever pay for a tax revenue and service fees, <br /> meaning it is not solvent. It will ultimately bankrupt us. The most obvious burden is the <br /> imposition on our roads that all these vehicle-dependent developments required to connect <br /> people to any destination. No jurisdiction has been able to expand the roads to meet the growing <br /> demand these monolithic sprawling housing developments require. We cannot support what we <br /> have already allowed to be built, let alone continue to infill more and more until all the vacant <br /> land between the ocean and upper roads is completed and expect a miracle to resolve the <br /> exponential increase in traffic. We need to follow the KCDP strategy of TOD villages with <br /> compact development and mixed use surrounded by large tracts of open space resources that <br /> aren't a burden on infrastructure and cost to the taxpayers. We cannot continue these piecemeal <br /> sprawl developments and expect to build our way out of our deferred infrastructure issues and <br /> revenue-expense imbalance. Please take the fiscally responsible action. Do not extend these <br /> permits, especially not until the infrastructure is brought up to meet current needs. Mahalo nui <br /> loa. <br /> VITOUSEK: Mahalo. And is there any other? <br /> HATA: Yes, next we have Janet Matlock. <br /> VITOUSEK: Okay. <br /> MATLOCK: Aloha. I would like to first echo the mahalo of Antu Harvey for being able to <br /> engage with this civic process remotely, to be able to in person, and in writing. The only piece <br /> that seems to be missing is the ability to read the full written testimony of others, and so I look <br /> forward to being able to access that information online, hopefully for this meeting and in the <br /> future. So mahalo for that. <br /> There are so many reasons to oppose this attempt to resurrect to this expired application, and <br /> you've heard quite a few of them today already, ranging from the global aspects of climate <br /> 3 <br /> EXHIBIT G <br />