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on Sunday morning to ask him to at least open the gates. And we finally, it took an hour of me bouncing back and forth to finally get him to allow the farmer to put another lock and a daisy chain so that they can go in to harvest potatoes, for the Lot B. And my farmer friend turned and said See, I told you. They got mad at us, they locked us out. Now I dont think thats the case but perception is there. This happened just right after the Commission meeting from previous one. Okay? So its something to be considering. Please dont do this. I need more land to plant my banana. Give me a chance to lease the land for a large acreage, because apple banana is my line. Thank you. GRAHAM:Thank you, Mr. Chen. All right, you all can go back; and thank you much for your testimony. We have ten more minutes or so before we do our break. But maybe the applicant could come forward and we can have you respond if youd like to any of the comments you received, and then well take any questions from the Planning Commissioners. Mr. Kato, you want to start? KATO: Yes. The question came up I guess about what will happen with the decreaseindensityintermsofthecostofthefinishedproducttothefamilies.Theimpacts actually that were looking at are the drainage areas will not be used, and so, you know, there will be less lots. But theres no cost to that. Were just simply not going to use that land because, and the reason that theres no cost is theres no land cost. If we go 10,000-square foot lots, the lots are going to be 70 feet wide as opposed to 60 feet wide for 7,500-square foot lots, which means youve got a little bit more frontage. Now in our review of subdivisions, usually average amount of road that youve got to do for a 10,000-square foot lot is something like 60 feet, or let me put it this way, its 60 percent of the frontage. So if you look at the difference, the difference in frontage is going to be 10 feet. Were going to have to basically build 6 more lineal feet of road per lot, which may end up being about $1,000 to $2,000. So in this case because the land is coming over at no cost, you know, to decrease the density is not really going to have a significant impact on the cost of the house to the family. The other thing is relating to the letter from the Pepeekeo Community Association which, I guess, you guys just received this morning and which we had a chance to read. And I really did not know Lorraine Mendoza until I got involved with this project. And since that time Ive had a number of conversations with her. I see her in Ross, I see her in Pepeekeo. And her primary focus, really, is on the community association. I guess she has been with it for a number of years. Shes really dedicated to the association. And as you can see in the letter it distresses her that the association is now being divided, you might say. Weve spoken with them before and, you know, there are in people in the association who are in favor of the project, there are people who apparently recently joined and theyre opposed to it. I dont really believe that theres going to be any resolution where youre going to get some kind of consensus within that organization. Were happy to continue to talk to them to see what can be done but I dont think anything is going to be achieved by delaying the process. We have a number of steps that we have to go through, and all of that is going to take time. And so, you know, we really would not be in favor of any kind of continuance. We think the issues are basically out there and, you know, its really up to the decision-makers to make some decisions. Thank you. GRAHAM:Thank you, Mr. Kato. Mr. Inouye? 23EXHIBIT A