2023-04-06 Windward Exh B (Item#1 ASIAA PL-SPP-2022-000025)

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REHA: My name is Sandra Reha and I reside in the Ka`u district, specifically Wood Valley. I was living right across the street where the first time that they were presenting this. When I say they. On the sign it said Academia Sinica, but it's been wiped out and so nobody knew who's applying for this this time. But I see now that it's the same because I'm getting to renew my friendship with Dr. Chen who's I think the Director of the new set. Anyway, I'm so concerned about this. It's a much, much more complicated situation than I think anybody has been willingly looking at, especially in the things in this last year. As this has just been such a big thing in my life who and I care so much for the Ka`u district and keeping it agricultural. I think it's so essential. We take in 85% of our food is sent here is transported from elsewhere. We need to be able to have all the land and this is the designated Ag zone of this island, and we need to be able to have all our people that are able to be growing the food and the various supplies for us. I'm happy to announce that the property, the Mizuno property that ASIAA had been going for has been bought by a young family, a young farmer whose has big plans for utilizing that. I have someone looking at my property, a young family and I feel that since the sugar cane went out of business that it's taken a while for all this. But now we have the biggest mamaki tea farm in Hawaii, right there in our area and all the potential. But the way the weather's changing, the way that transport might not be able to get to us we need to be doing more and I'm not against the project. I think there's more unknowns about it than knowns. We don't know really — MERCADO: Thirty seconds remaining. REHA: —where they from, what they're about, whatever, and just much more needs to be understood and really clarified about all of this. I walked out of the Ka`u Footprint Park, and I looked and here's all this expands of land. No houses, no nothing, no whatever. You mean to tell me someplace in there they couldn't take those 10, 20-foot, 80-foot of containers — MERCADO: Your time is up. REHA: — 24 solar panels — MERCADO: Thank you for your testimony. REHA: —to that area. Doesn't make sense to me. It doesn't have to be in our agricultural district. LIN: Thank you for your testimony. REHA: Thank you. LIN: Commissioners any questions for any of the testifiers? No. Yes. CAISERMAN IN AUDIENCE: I just love to say one more thing. It doesn't have to be recorded. How would anyone here love to have that in front of their house, to look at for the rest of their life? 5 EXHIBIT B