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YUEN: Right. BOWMAN: Okay, thank you. DARROW: Just for Clarification purposes, Commissioner Bowman, earlier you had asked one of the testifiers regarding a road that he had mentioned; he was referring to Lokahi Road. You have Maluhia Road running from Akoni Pule Highway down to Pratt Road. This is Maluhia Road. You have a short distance of Pratt Road. And then there is another mauka-makai road that goes to the applicants’ property as well as the Sullivans’ property; that’s identified as Lokahi Road. BOWMAN: Thank you. WATANABE: Okay. May I ask the applicant -, yes, you may come up, please. And you’ll have your opportunity to respond. So you’re still under oath. SUNDERLAND: Thank you. WATANABE: Would you care to respond? SUNDERLAND: Yes. There was confusion about Maluhia Road initially because the property of the old Kohala Club Hotel had never been surveyed; so when Mr. Wilson purchased the property without a survey, he was under the impression that his property extended differently than what a survey proved. Fortunately, he did have his property surveyed, and at that time that was determined that the entire road was not within his property, as he previously believed. And I think he sent out a letter saying, prior to the survey, saying this road is on my property; and fortunately the survey proves that it is not. And I think there is like – between where the road exists -, where it has always existed and his property line – it’s probably about 6 feet. So that was what that concern was. Any other questions you had for me? But that -, and Mr. Sullivan spoke that -, we obtained -, originally when the Association CC&R were written up, it said that the person that paid for it – which we do, we are paying for about 80 percent of that road – that the people who pay for it were to make decisions about how it is to be done. We contacted the Engineering Division as was prudent. They sent us back the information saying that no grubbing permit was required because it was under a half an acre. And that’s what, when all this happened about people being concerned about the grading, it wasn’t grading; it was actually grubbing. And the bulldozers that were doing the grubbing were never on Mr. Wilson’s property. WATANABE: Yes, Mr. Woodward. WOODWARD: I don’t really have a question; I just have a comment. And I would say obviously we’ve heard a lot of fairly angry testimony. And if this comes back before us, the best thing that you can do is make peace with your neighbors. And that’s going to -, that’s a, you know, collaborative effort. You need to go out to them; and whatever hardship or hard feelings EXHIBIT B 20