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Patrick Kelly, and Mr. Lono Lyman. All right, gentlemen, if youÓll hold up your right hand -. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth today before the Windward Planning Commission? TESTIFIERS: I do. WOODWARD: Very good. LetÓs start with you, sir. If youÓd give us your name and address; and then you may begin. LEHNER: All right. My name is James Lehner, address is 14-5049 Waiopae in Vacationland, 96778. I have listened, IÓve had history with the Board of Directors of Vacationland, Hawaii. IÓve been on the Board for several years and IÓm presently not on there. But during that time we have listened to many people whoÓve come through for subdivision applications and listened to their stories. We had, and theyÓre very much all the same, either I want to subdivide for families, or whatever, and provide homes for my families, we donÓt want to do anything to the area. I look at this and I think this thing is going to probably turn into another Kalani. If everybody has been down to Kalani when theyÓre having an event down there, traffic is horrible down there. ItÓs just awful. I commend Sylvia for saying that sheÓs going to use buses and everything to transport people in and out of the area; but frankly I really just donÓt see it happening because thereÓs going to be no monitoring on it. There never is once these things are allowed to happen. As far as getting out of paving the road down there, there will be traffic in there. And letÓs face it, ladies and gentlemen, if youÓre having 30-40 people at an event and somebody wants to cut out of the event, theyÓre going to have to fire up a 25-passenger bus to take that one person over to the parking area to get their car? The traffic is going to be there. ThereÓs going to be a definite increase, thereÓs no doubt about it. The 12-foot wide road I find is unacceptable because the County in itself has forced subdividers to put in 20-foot wide paved roads when they have subdivided even from a 5-acre lot to three 1-2/3 acre lots. And thatÓs the CountyÓs standard. The Board of Director of VHCA has in the past in their policy has made this the standard we want for our roads. WeÓre the ones that own the roads, the people of the thatÓs getting stuck paving these roads again, especially when you have a 12-foot wide road which the edges are going to start eroding off because people ha know, if this thing is going to be approved I really encourage the Commission to please make it a 20-foot wide road so at least we can start upgrading our roads. Our biggest expense in the association is roads. Ninety-five percent of our money goes to roads, just maintenance and repair. We very seldom are able to make any improvements, and weÓd like to get to that point. Thank you. WOODWARD: Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Lehner. Okay, seeing none, sir, you may -. Commissioner Iwashita. IWASHITA: Just your last comment about, I guess, the road mainte road maintenance, that thereÓs really no effort to assess the owners, you know, over a period of time with the intent of setting aside funds so that you can actually improve the road with pavement? LEHNER: Yeah, I understand -. We are a road association and basically all of our roads, our funds are devoted to the roads, with exception of administrative costs. As you are EXHIBIT B 18