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ALAMEDA:Thank you. And down the line. LOWENTHAL:Dore Dokos-Loewenthal, 82-611 Napo opo o Rd. ALAMEDA:Thank you. WILLE:Margaret Wille, 65-1316 Lihipali Road, Kamuela. ALAMEDA:Thank you, Margaret. And I believe we have written testimony that you submitted already. Im going to ask that you kind of highlight the key points of your concern and try to think about or keep to maybe a 3- or 5-minute kind of timeframe so we can move forward today. We have a long agenda. But were all wanting to hear kind of your perspectives. So maybe if we could start on my right, go this way? FORD:Im Brenda Ford and I did not submit any written testimony. I brought mapstoexplainwhathasbeengoingonhere.IhopeIgetlotsofquestionsonfloodzonesand the zoning change that put this into Urban and Rural. Im going to try to explain it. I know Ill exceed 3 minutes. I need all the questions you can possibly throw at me. ALAMEDA:Sure. Go ahead. FORD:And, you know, it seems, with all due respect, were been sworn in to tell the truth here. Seems like everybody who testifies in front of this Commission should be sworn in to tell the truth as well. ALAMEDA:Could you take your mike? FORD:Im going to talk about F-2, which is up on the screen. Im going to start with this map right here, and Im going to start at the other end. This map shows Kealakekua Bay here. This is the State park land; and these orange sections, these five orange sections, are owned by a man named Christopher Norrie. He has an assortment of Shell Limited Liability Corporations on these different parcels. My property is here; and this green section is owned by the Greenwell family, the Greenwell Kealakekua Ranch. F-2 sits right here in this section. And what has happened is Mr. Norrie owns a great many portions of this, the pali, overlooking Kealakekua Bay; and he does what is called, sequential permitting and sequential development. That is he will not tell you what his ultimate plans are and he just goes piece-by- piece-by-piece. He did my subdivision in three sections, all the sections less than 10 lots. He never paid any of the in-lieu fees. This is the type of development he does. So keep this in mind as I go down here and explain how this mess got started. These maps are basically from the FIRM maps. This is that green section, Mr. Greenwells property right now, this is the section of the pali thats F-2. And these are the flood channels as they were in 1998, as drawn in 1998. This map is from 2001. This is the same thing. Mr. Greenwells property, my subdivision going here and Mr. Norries property, this is Conservation, this is the State land. Mr. Norrie, you can see the other five lots, owns all these parcels over here. He no longer owns the lots inside this subdivision. And youll notice these flood channels. Please notice the size of the flood channels. This is the northern one, southern, 13