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It went on sale, if not immediately upon its completion, five seconds before it was completed; and it is for sale for $6-1/2 million right now. The same Mr. Norrie, with all of his LLCs is abutting Keopuka, I wont even go into Keopuka and Hokulia. This lot right now is vacant. This is going to be one of his next lots to develop right below my subdivision. Right now he has a driveway, I brought my Subdivision Plan in case you want to look at it, he has a driveway. The road comes down here, terminates in a cul de sac; and theres a driveway serving 12 lots. Six lots are the legal limit on a driveway. And hell be trying to connect this portion to it. He already has it, and he has a road easement that goes around here. And if you look at this street in this new subdivision, it deadends right there. So we know hes going to try to connect into this area and this subdivision. He has got a variance pending in front of the Planning Department right now that I wrote ten pages of testimony saying what hes trying to do in the subdivision is wrong, culturally wrong, environmentally wrong and illegal. I also found out that these lots should all be 3-acre lots. Hes never applied for change in hisSMAbutthePlanningDepartmenthasallowedhimtoturnthisinwith2-acrelots. Everythingaboutthiswholeareaneedstobepreserved.Thiswholepaliiscoveredwithcultural sites, they are not being preserved adequately. Once this property is sold in the subdivision, if these people do not wish to, the new lot owners do not wish to preserve these, they wont be preserved. One of these has already been identified as a burial. I dont know which one it is, I wouldnt want to say in public anyway. So what we need to do, as Mr. Iwashita said is were going in the wrong direction. We need to get the State to turn this back into Important Ag land, at the very least 2-acre and 3-acre lots minimum. Everybody up here is on cesspool at this time. I believe the County now says you have to be on septic, which is fine; but if you go into a density of five lots an acre, you cant handle that much septic. We are sitting, this whole pali up here sits on an aquifer. This is the aquifer for the area. And each point of Kealakekua Bay, you can see the north point there, the south point you cant see. If you look at the aerial photographs from George Wilkins, hes on the Water Board, he can show you how much fresh water is flowing off of those points of land. Weve got rivers of water coming out of there that are going to be polluted if we increase the density to the kind of thing that Rural is going to do. Thank you very much. If you have any questions, Ill be glad to answer them. ALAMEDA:Thank you, Brenda. Very articulate. Appreciate your testimony. I feel your passion. Any questions for Brenda? Very good. Thank you very much. Dore? LOEWENTHAL: This is my first time. Hope I dont make this thing squeak. Im just giving a little detail of the bigger picture that was just covered. Im testifying in regards to General Plan Interim Amendment F-2. This affects almost 100 acres between upper Napo opo o Road and the Conservation land directly over Kealakekua Bay and the marine preserve. Around 1988, Kealakekua Ranch received Special Management Area Use Permit No. 269 for a subdivision plan based on lot sizes two acres or greater. This project later lapsed. The current owner and developer, Capt. Cook Ranch LLC, has a pending subdivision of 2-acre lots. Hes using the same, theyre using the same SMA No. 269 issued about 20 years ago at the standards for marine protection and runoff at that time, which were virtually nil. 15