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OLSON: Well, see the people donÓt go through there anymore because that intersection, the Kahakai-Malama Market intersection, is the most dangerous intersection in the entire State of HawaiÒi. People donÓt go there if they can avoid it. KERN: Yeah, just clarifying that I -. OLSON: Yeah, you remembered it right. KERN: Okay. OLSON: Yes. WOODWARD: Okay, thank you. Now, Mr. Tucker. TUCKER: Thank you, Commissioners. The CDP, the Puna Community Development Plan, and the amendment process, now this has been a path IÓve been on since 2006 when we were invited by Mayor Kim and the Planning Department to participate in the Community Development Plan. And as Jon said there has been a lot of time and effort. I donÓt really need to go back and rehash every moment. But I would like to pick up the thread a little bit at Council in 2008. Now at the time that the CDP, the Puna CDP, was going to Council, we had four days notice as a community, as community participants, that there were 21 amendments coming to the CDP from the DirectorÓs office. Now we were not at that time not particularly enamored with the fact that we had, you know, four days in which to try and digest 21 amendments, I believe it was. Well, my numbers may be not, maybe it was 19, but I remember 21. And at that point we had to take an approach that, listen, if this is just going to get bogged down for months on end with amendments that were not even given the dignity of time to review, then we were going to take a stance to pass it now and amend it later. Now we said that at the time because we knew that some reasonable amendments would be appropriate to the document. It was a long and difficult and cumbersome path trying to get the CDP together. We did it on time, we did it on schedule, we did it on budget. And we brought it to the Council, and suddenly there were 21 amendments. Well, that morning that there were 21 amendments being presented by Chris Yuen, by the end of the day we were at 56 amendments. Now the additional amendments we had zero time to appreciate, zero time to understand. Now weÓre grateful that the Council at the time decided to listen to us, passed the CDP, and there was a promise made both emotionally and publicly - pass it now, amend it later. Now we did not expect that it was going to be more than a year before the amendments were going to come back, you know, up as an issue. A in December of Ó08, just a couple of months after the Council passed it, we went out into the community, we formed a committee of 28 individuals new to the process which spent nothing but the next five months studying 56 amendments. We gave it a long and thoughtful consideration. We were expecting in the spring of 2009 that the amendments were going to be coming back to Council. It didnÓt. It took several months for an action committee to be appointed. It took several months for a planning director to be appointed. And that was not of our creation, that was not of our, you know -. We were prepared and ready early in Ó09, you know, for an amendment process to take place. 10 EXHIBIT B