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And I have nothing opposed to affordable housing. I was not born with a silver spoon in my
<br />mouth. When I was 5 or 6 I was raised in the projects. I know about not planning for the future.
<br />And for the gentleman to say that its all rich people out there buying the land up, I dont know if
<br />they are or not. All I know is Ive got two jobs; and my first job is working on the land from 6
<br />till 3 oclock, and then from 3 to 10 I go to my other job. So I dont know where hes
<br />misinformed about that.
<br />But now the decision is that those other 120 acres are now going to be developed into smaller
<br />parcels which is going to bring more housing, which is going to bring more traffic up to our road
<br />that can barely handle the traffic coming down now from tourists. And now youre going to
<br />build out there, thats just going to be totally a bottleneck right there. And then, I mean, is there
<br />anything in the plans where there is going to be more money brought in to fix the roads out
<br />there? You know, everybody is talking about affordable housing, great, hurrah; but, you know,
<br />youre looking at a long-term effect that can affect not only the people that youre going to put in
<br />theaffordablehousingbutthepeoplethatarealreadyoutthere.ThatsallIhavetosay.
<br />GRAHAM:Thankyou,Mr.Johnson.Andourfinaltestifiertoday,Mr.Chengwu
<br />Chen.
<br />CHEN:Chengwu Chen, PO Box 1067, Pepeekeo. I wasnt planning to testify
<br />because I figure let the nature takes it course. I am against the project completely. But I read
<br />Mr. Yuens response to the community. I just have to correct him a little bit. This is not about 7
<br />acres of land converting to Ag-10. This is about continuation of the whole Pepeekeo
<br />community, the whole area converting to residential, you know, paradise, private residence,
<br />things like that. Let the history be the point. If you look at all of Pepeekeo right now, all the
<br />lands subdivided, Continental Pacific and Hank Corrreas selling property, and everybody selling
<br />property, how many of those lots today is really doing agriculture? Hawaiian Rainbows first
<br />phase, there were only three lots, I believe there are three lots in Phase A left that are doing
<br />agriculture, two on sweet potatoes, one of them doing cattle farming. And the one that doing the
<br />cattle farming, Mr. Fred Wohlschlagel is doing the cattle farming. Thats it, out of 100 acres.
<br />And if you cut them down again, how many of those pieces of acres are going to building,
<br />planning on something? Most people will just kind of let it become their own vacation home or,
<br />hopefully no investment, and something like that.
<br />So you guys went there this morning. Look at it and see how many of those subdivided land
<br />from Continental Pacific is really doing agricultural stuff? Now I own a 5-acre land on my lot, I
<br />have a day job. I build my own house, Im still building a house after three years. I didnt have
<br />enough money to build, to finish up doing it, but Im doing it. I enjoy my house; and we plant
<br />exotic flowers and banana, and we do farmers market every Saturday to earn some income. Now
<br />Im rich, like everybody says, you know. Ive got money, but I earned that through farmers
<br />market every Saturday. So thats something that you have to understand.
<br />Now when I tried to convince my farmer friends to come and say, you know, voice opinions, one
<br />of the objection I find is they fear, you know, retributions. You know, the developer may go
<br />against them. All right? Then I got a phone call right after last Commission meeting that their
<br />gates were locked. They couldnt access the Phase I land any more, the one Hawaiian
<br />Rainbows, you know, the land, Lot A that theyre subdividing. They locked up the gate so the
<br />farmer couldnt get into the lot to do the farming on Lot B. I finally had to call Richard Johnson
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