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DOMINGO: Now are they all farming on the property? <br />INOUYE: I think I answered the first part. There’s a combination of some owners <br />are farming their property, some owners are leasing it to other farmers to farm their property and <br />then there are certain owners that are not doing anything with their property at the present time. <br />GRAHAM: Mr. Domingo, I would like to try to move it faster so we can get public <br />testimony also at this point. Mr. Inouye, did you have any other presentation you wanted to <br />make at this time? <br />INOUYE: No. I’m just available to help, to answer questions if necessary, sir. <br />GRAHAM: Great; and we’ll probably call you back in a short while, if that’d be all <br />right. Any other questions at this point from the Commissioners? All right, thank you all. If <br />you can sit back then we’ll just get public testimony first now. Well, let me see here. You two <br />folks that I called about three times today already, could you all come up at this point. And I can <br />take maybe, since we have four chairs, two more from my other list here. Perhaps Donald <br />Hanson and Susan Miyasaka, could you folks come forth. Would you all please raise your right <br />hand. And do you swear or affirm to tell the truth today about this matter before the Hawaii <br />County Planning Commission? <br />TESTIFIERS: Yes. <br />GRAHAM: Thank you. I’ll start on my left, and could you give your name and <br />address first and then just proceed right into your testimony. And when you’re finished we’ll see <br />if there are any questions. Thank you. <br />SANDERS: My name is Ronit Sanders. Mailing address is Post Office Box 434, <br />Honomu, Hawaii 96728. Our physical address is 28-721 Kokoke Kai Street, Honomu. I’m an <br />applicant with the Mutual Self-help Housing Project with the proposal of building in Pepeekeo. <br />And I attended the meeting the other night. I gave you a letter that just kind of states our general <br />position on this. I don’t see any reason to reread the whole letter. But I just wanted to say that I <br />know that the neighbors have concerns about this and that we’ll be wonderful neighbors. We’ll <br />bring a real revitalization into Pepeekeo town because we will build our own homes together, <br />working for ten months with putting our sweat equity in. I understand that the developer is <br />gaining, you know, much advantage by rezoning other areas. But we’re so grateful that he chose <br />self-help rather than perhaps offering the community a park or some of the other things that <br />developers offer when they want to come in and rezone, that they’re offering the opportunity for <br />affordable housing, which is a tremendous need on this island. <br />I have a young son who’s in a wheelchair who goes to school here. My husband passed away <br />when my son was four; and we came here thinking that we could somehow manage to get a <br />small farm up Hamakua coast so that my wheelchair bound son would have a way to support <br />himself. Well, things went not slant wise, hit Big Island, and that’s not possible. Now it would <br />just be wonderful not to be displaced. We’ve been in three separate rental homes that have been <br />sold because everything got so opened; and we were legally asked to leave so that they could sell <br />and make a profit on their property. And we’re tired of that. We want to own our own home, we <br /> EXHIBIT D <br />10 <br /> <br />