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ALAMEDA:Thank you. Any questions? Thank you very much you may be seated. Maam could you please state your name and address for the record? FORD:My name is Brenda Ford. My address is 81-950 Makahiki Lane, Captain Cook Holding. ALAMEDA:Okay Brenda. FORD:Im here to talk about the same map, I have several concerns on it. The first one is since youre making those changes I think its just appropriate that the resort of Hokulia be stricken out since its been removed legally by the Judge. With the spot zoning, its good to clear spot zoning and yet I see nothing in here that says that it will be removed. I think its time we started complying with court rules in this County. Secondly I wanted to talk about the same section of the map Ambika talked about. Id like to reiterate a couple of things it is an SMA area. There are 2 full channels in it. This property has been divided by the owner. My husband and I live in the subdivision directly and adjacent north of this subdivision. Our subdivision was designed by the same developer. There are a lot of problems but Im not going to go into today by that developer. But given this a Rural designation is asking for this developer to do develop this into half-acre lots. The problem with developing half-acre lots is youre sitting right above marine sanctuary that has already had four channels carved in it and those are indicating 100-year flood channels that drop from the right hand side of the map, thats the mauka side onto to the makai side, onto Mr. Moris conservation land, onto the State land and over the edge of the pali. Not only that but this entire area that sits above here, sitting on top the aquifer. If you were to look at a hydraulic, a hydrologic map of the runoff from the mountains to the sea, right under the Captain Cook monument and at the south end of the point of Kealakekua Bay there are huge rivers. Im not talking little streams Im talking rivers of fresh water leaving the island, two huge ones that show up on the infrared maps extremely well. And theres tapes that you could ask George Wilkins of the Water Board to provide you for extra information. There is a underground dike that is holding back the water and were all sitting on top of it. Those of us who has been there for a while are using cesspools. Now those have been outlawed and you can only use in a new construction, septic systems. But the more population, the more houses that you put on top of this pali, the more youre going to have sewage coming into the aquifer itself and extending out into the bay. The housing right along the bay shore itself are using cesspools. So anything that has a cesspool that sits on that bay is leaching into the bay at this time. This is a dolphin sanctuary, they come in and sleep during the day. Its also a very highly used tourist attraction. Another problem with the whole situation is not just the half-acre lots, which would increase full fold the number of houses that would go in there is that it will also increase the traffic on Napoopoo Road. Regarding the subdivision that is owned by Mr. Mori that will be going in here while Im not objecting to the subdivision itself because thats already been passed in 1991, 1987 something like that. I have (inaudible) 10 pages of documentation on poor engineering that was proposed for the subdivision. And the engineering is going to impact these flood channels. And its going to impact the property owners of, the future property owners that buy this land. Its very important that this Commission understand and accept the totality of the infrastructure that we have today in this area. The bad traffic that we have and this propertyneedstobenothigherdensitybutnohigherthanitscurrentlypermittedforwhichisatotalof37 lots between this entire subdivision. The totality of this subdivision needs to consider the traffic. With 33 lotsonthenorthernhalfofthislandand4lotsonthesouthendyourelookingatapproximately74cars minimum coming on the Napoopoo. A very busy road that is speed posted at 20 to 25 miles per hour, the averagespeedis45to50milesanhour.Ivehadthepoliceouttheremanytimesjuststandingbytheroad and in horror at the amount of traffic going through there. So we need to have a lot of traffic work in there. EXHIBIT D 9