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KNOWLES: Please raise your right hand, Mr. Castaing. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth <br /> on the matter currently before the Leeward Planning Commission? <br /> CASTAING: I do. <br /> KNOWLES: Thank you so much. You may proceed. You have three minutes. <br /> CASTAING: I appreciate the opportunity. I would like, I'm speaking for myself, if I have <br /> enough time, I'll read a letter from six of our neighbors. <br /> We were part of a community association established 20 years ago, which is now dissolved. We <br /> have been neighbors of Hawaii Island Retreat. We've had huge issues with them from the start, <br /> many of them never resolved. One of the biggest is Maluhia Road, which accesses this. The <br /> community association as a whole was left with the responsibility to pave this road. I don't know <br /> if you've had an opportunity to go out there. It has a very steep grade, over 10 percent, blind <br /> curves, and we had to live with this because the County did not make them [inaudible <br /> connection failure] <br /> KNOWLES: It looks like we've lost Mr. Castaing. If we can get him back, we want to preserve <br /> his time. How does that work? Okay, we'll go ahead and proceed, and if we get him back on the <br /> line, we may take a brief recess from the applicant's presentation to let him finish his testimony. <br /> I'd like to call the applicants to the table,please. I guess all parties, my apologies. Mr. Fuke is <br /> online? <br /> MATSUKAWA: Good morning, Michael Matsukawa. <br /> KNOWLES: I'd like to ask you all to raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the <br /> truth on the matter currently before the Leeward Planning Commission? <br /> FUKE: I do. <br /> MATSUKAWA: I do. <br /> HAITSUKA: I do. <br /> KNOWLES: Thank you. Okay <br /> MATSUKAWA: My name is Michael Matsukawa. I'm an attorney representing the applicant. <br /> And the applicant's representative, Jean Sunderland, is also here seated to my right. <br /> KNOWLES: Thank you. <br /> HAITSUKA: Good morning, my name is Edmund Haitsuka. I represent the petitioners. <br /> Mr. Charles Anderson, one of the petitioners and representative of the other petitioners, is here <br /> with me this morning. <br /> 3 <br /> EXHIBIT C <br />