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want to be somewhere. I don’t want to go into an old people’s home. I don’t want my son in subsidized housing. I want to be in our own home; and this is an opportunity for us to do that. Communities get a little nuts when it comes to low income housing. But this isn’t the same. We’re not Section 8 people. We have to qualify as low income people, which we certainly do; but we also have to be financially stable and reliable or we’re not passed. Plus, we have to have a passion for what we do or we won’t be out there working 40 hours every weekend for 10 to 12 months to build our own homes. Our neighborhood will not deteriorate, you can bet that. So I just wanted to come and reassure the Planning Commission and the people of Pepeekeo who are here to testify that we’ll be great neighbors. Thank you. GRAHAM: All right, thank you, Ms. Sanders. Anyone on the Commission have a question? Okay, go ahead, sir, name and address. POWER: My name is Martin Power. My address is PO Box 434, Honomu, Hawaii. I also am an applicant. I understand that there are quite a few people here from Pepeekeo that are concerned about the neighborhood; and if I lived there I would probably have some concerns myself. But we’ve talked kind of at length with the developers and they seem to think that they can handle all of those concerns, and that we could come together and build their community a little larger than it’s now and give us an opportunity to own homes, too. I’m a full-time student, I’m a single parent; and I have a job; but it’s just not enough to buy a home here these days. And I could qualify for this and I could own my own home; and I would love that. That’s all I would say. GRAHAM: Thank you, Mr. Power. Any questions? Sir? HANSON: Hi. My name is Donald Hanson and I’m Vice-President to the Pepeekeo Association. Earlier today I gave you this letter from Lorraine Mendoza. GRAHAM: Address, please. Could you give your address also for the record, please. HANSON: My address is Pepeekeo, 28-501 Kulaimano Road. And I could either read the letter, unless most of you have read it already, that if you’re, you know, your time is short -. GRAHAM: Yeah, you don’t need to read it. But if you just have a summary of a few sentences would be fine. HANSON: Well, the summary for this is we’ve been holding hearings. We’ve held four hearings so far with the Pepeekeo Community Association. And as you know with the history we want to get all the facts out before we do anything in the Pepeekeo area. And this exactly the same thing we would like to continue doing here; and that’s why we would like to have you defer this until all the information is in and people of Pepeekeo are fine with the project. We’ve had three meetings on this and they’re not turning out the way we want. We still have to get more information because we got people in from the different departments, heads and stuff like that to give us information, and half of them didn’t even know why they were there. So until we have information from all the different departments on why this thing is progressing I think we need to back off a little bit and not, you know, get too far ahead of ourselves. EXHIBIT D 11