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property a 2-acre parcel that is a screen house, a shade house thats growing plants. The people there borrowed sandbags from us, I keep 200 sandbags for the neighbors, and borrowed sandbags from us to keep the, keep the water from coming down their driveway and washing their buildings away. I see more and more of this if we allow this to go Urban because well have that 184 possibilities of right-, most of em or many of em right in the middle of a flood plane, flood area. The 38 that were a 2 and 3-acre parcels that were approved some years ago can do agriculture. I presently live in an area that has 2-acre and 3-acre parcels. Everyone is intensely farming all of those parcels, every one of em. So, its not that we need urban in the area its that we actually need as many diversified farmers as wecan find. We also have a traffic problem. Im really concerned about 38 parcelswith 76 carsI count 2 cars per parcel going up and down the road. Its presently very dangerous, people are speeding there, everybody has to get to work, everybody has to get home and theyre all concentrating on doing that instead of watching all of those curves and turns and so on and they dont observe the speed limit. We even have a real big problem when the bypass road comes through because Napoopoo Road will then have to stop at 2 stop signs. They have to cross the bypass road, stop and then cross onto Mamalahoa Highway. Very, very dangerous situation. Very dangerous. If we add more than the 38 lots its going to compound it tremendously because the traffic will not be just, just an even increase. Once you, once you have it crowded as it is right now any addition increases the danger ex-potentially not just on a straight line basis. Im really concerned about the flood areas because if we have roads and houses into 184 lots for instance. All of that runoff has to go somewhere and it, and unless every lot has its own dry well it will come gushing over that pali down into the Kealakekua Bay which is a marine sanctuary. Also, every one of those lots will be putting lawns in, fertilizer in, pesticides in. All going down through that, through the aquifer into the bay. And it will effectively kill that bay. And thats another problem I had with the sewage portion is if we have that many septic tanks it cant help but-. Even if, even if its far enough away that we dont get the bacteria we will still have the runoff that will change that bay entirely. Those are class AA waters some of the only in the whole nation and I would hate to see them turned into a sewage dump. Thank you. ALAMEDA:Youre welcome. Any questions for Mr. Ford? Thank you very much for your testimony appreciate it. YUEN:I would like to make a statement of clarification. ALAMEDA:All right. YUEN:The statement that was made that there would be nothing to prevent the person from subdividing to half-acre lots. The property is zoned RA-2a. The zoning does not allow a subdivision to less than a 2-acre lot. The General Plan amendment does not change the zoning. If someone wanted to make a subdivision of lots less than 2-acres they would have to rezone the property. ALAMEDA:Thank you Mr. Director for clarifying that. Mr. Vidgin you can please state your name and address for the record. VIDGIN:Hi, my name is Rick Vidgin. I live at 78-630 Ihilani Place in Kona and Im here representingCaptainCookRanchwhoownsthelandunderquestion. ALAMEDA:Okay.Youmayproceed. EXHIBIT D 14