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Highway, and that the only public access to that is an old one-lane bridge. Now at the beginning of this presentation the gentleman at the podium was talking about the access. I hope that it was noticed when it was brought up that one of those accesses is not public. It’s a private road. It actually is part of the parcel which saddles that road on both sides. It belongs to, it is owned by Richard Ha and it is part of his parcel. It is not a public road. This brings up problems with liability in case we would have an accident or death on that road. It brings up problems of upkeep. Is the County going to keep up a private road? Is the State going to maintain that private road? And in the absence of these, the only access to this development is a one-lane bridge on a very narrow road. This is my first concern. My second has to do, as has already been stated, with public health. This proposal is for a dense aggregate of open sewage of septic tanks which have been used for generations here. Now the problem in this particular parcel is that the water doesn’t always stay underground. Those of you that are familiar with septic tanks know that the basic idea is that the waste leaches out the side of the tank and down into the ground. And as long as these are spread far enough apart so there’s plenty of leach area for this effluent to be absorbed into and detoxified everything is fine. The Health Department by their regulations has said that the minimum they would recommend is 10,000 foot lots for this; and yet this particular development is down to 7,500. The reason I mentioned that I’m right across the street is that I am intimately familiar with this piece of property. I’ve lived there for just short of a quarter century. This is my neighbor. We have watched that property fill up with water time and time and time again. An open septic system works well, except in one situation; and in that situation it should never be used. And that’s when the water level will rise up to the surface. Because in that situation the effluent is no longer being taken down into the ground. It’s being washed to the surface. I fear that that’s what’s going to happen on this piece of property if we put dense open sewage systems in a place where the water level comes up, not down. Okay? My neighbor has a basement. As rare as hen’s teeth in Hawaii, okay. Not much of a basement, just small room, cinder block. It’s dug into the ground, it has got a slab floor and a cinderblock wall. When you stand in it your eyes are just about the level of the ground. Every time we have a large storm that room fills up with water. And it doesn’t fill up from the top. It fills up from the bottom. It’s not water running along the surface and flowing into it. It’s the water literally running through the ground and bringing the water table up. Now in his situation in his cement room, the only thing that happens is a few tools fall down and some, some spare pieces of wood float to the surface. If that room were a septic system, that’s not what would be floating to the surface. Now we’re talking about a development that is supposed to be for the benefit of the low income housing. There is a need for that on this island, a very desperate need; and I’m sure that all you gentlemen being connected with the local government have received numerous notices about how important this must be. That does not mean that every proposal that has to do with low income housing is necessarily good. And I think low income housing is a very vital, very important problem that needs to be addressed. My difficulty with it is this particular piece of land and whether it is suitable for such a development. If I was someone who couldn’t afford a house, but who was able to get one of these pieces of property, was able to build through my own sweat equity, to build a home finally for my family, a little piece of the aina that is now EXHIBIT D 21