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your right hand, so I may have you sworn in? Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Hawaii County Planning Commission? HERBERT:I do. BOVARD:I do. GALDONES:Maam, shall we start with you first. Could you please state your name and your residence address? BOVARD:Okay, is this on? My name is Jan Bovard and Im representing the Daifukuji Soto Mission which is in Honalo just south of this project. And, before I go on, Im just going to read my letter that I gave you. Im very hearing impaired so if Im redundant here, I havent heard much of whats been said. So, Ill just read this and if you have any questions, I willtrytoanswer. DearCommission,Ihavereadallthedocumentsbythevariousagenciesthatwouldbeinvolved in the Umphrey project. I have read the recommendations by the Planning Department and I am pleased to see the infrastructure conditions attached to the recommendation. My concern at this time is past history on zone changes. Non-conformance of conditions seem not to be addressed once the zone change has been granted. Case in point, the Fuku Bonsai Garden property that was zone changed from agriculture to commercial. After two extensions the property now has 20 or more derelict Sealand containers parked inside a chain link fence right on the boundary line of the road with no landscaping and is not conducting the business that was designated in the zone change. Nor has the plot plan submitted been adhered to in any way. This appears to be land speculation of the most blatant sort and an eye sore to those of us driving by everyday. With this in mind I am objecting to this zoning change until the needed infrastructure takes place. Since this project cannot more ahead without these improvements, changing the zoning now could result in unseen difficulties. The many projects that were okayed over the years without proper infrastructure have cause severe consequences in our quality of life. Our roads are clogged and dangerous. Insurance companies have raised rates by 14% for this island because of the higher than Oahu percentage of accidents per population numbers. Although I have been informed that the Umphreys are nice people, once this zoning is changed they may choose to sell this property to someone that has a completely different idea of what they want to do with it. There can be no harm in waiting but much harm in haste. This property was purchased under the present zoning and the buyer knew this and made the choice to buy. Once again I request that this application be shelved until such time that proper infrastructure is in place. Thank you. GALDONES:Commissioners are there any questions of Ms. Bovard? Thank you Ms. Bovard. Mr. Herbert could you please state your name, your residence address and then you may begin your testimony. HERBERT:My name is Gerry Herbert and my wife and I, Nancy live in Honalo right down stream from this development. Our address is Box 906, Kealakekua. Basically, this is just a heads up on a possible water problem with this development. Were avid gardeners and we 10 EXHIBIT A