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and flows right into this property. I don't think there's enough drywell available to contain all of the water that it is that we're talking about. Now I've experienced having a change of residential to commercial personally by the dentist's office that appears on the corner. The dentists put in drywells in their property, and the water completely bypasses their drywells and comes into my yard. So I'm aware that just because you put a drywell in doesn't mean that it's going to work. Now one of the things that addresses me greatly about this situation of going -, bypassing the Public Works on the flooding issue and going directly to the federal guys and saying, oh, you know what, we'll just go ahead and make it according to our plan and we'll certify afterwards that it's going to be okay. I question that. How is that going to work? You know, it's -, I think that the huge office building with the pavement from corner to corner, it's too much. When this was introduced to us on the bigger map, you diligently pointed out all of the commercial things, 7-11, Tyke's Laundry, but the reality is this is people, this is families, this is yards, this is gardens. If you build this monstrosity right in our backyard, and believe me, I should have brought a copy of those plans, they'd scare anybody. Anyway, I don't want to rant, but we're very concerned. And if this is not the body to address these questions, then tell us what it is and we'll go there. Now I'm still supposed to read Mr. Aguair's letter, so I promised him I would do that. I'll do that now. Thank you. "Dear Commission Members, For years now I've been walking in the afternoon from my house to Longs Drug Store and back, and I do that four or five times a week. I walk about 4-5 miles per day. When I see traffic so strong that as far as your eye can see, I'm standing on the corner and waiting for the light to change so I can walk and I can see down the street and the traffic is so heavy that I can see almost quarter mile down the street, bumper to bumper cars waiting for the light to change. "Another thing I see is speeders, there is a lot of drivers tearing down the street, overtaking each other, their tires screeching like there was no tomorrow. I see that almost every time that I walk. And what gets me is that there is no policeman on the street, the only time that I saw one policeman arrest a speeder, not exactly a speeder he ran a red light – that was on the corner of Hilo Motors. This driver came from Waiakea side, made a right turn into Kilauea without stopping, and luckily there was the police facing downtown waiting at the stop light also, and he got him, so that was about it. "This happens so many times – not just once or twice. The volume of traffic, the backup at traffic lights during certain hours of the day is creating unsafe conditions." This is true. Now I realize that, you know, there are certain things that are going to happen, but the reality is the food court's coming on the corner, that's going to add a huge amount of traffic. To even suggest that the ten-foot road widening be modified as an amendment to me is like what are they thinking? They're not thinking, and they're certainly not thinking about those of us that live there. And we've been there for a while. We have a very strong investment in our homes 14