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MOMSEN:And Puako, as you all know, is a unique, historic and very diverse <br />community and has various issues come up before the community, our little community <br />association, regarding fire, fire breaks, flood, flood control, traffic, speed humps and <br />things like that. The remarkable thing is that no one in Puako can agree on anything, on <br />any of these issues. And this particular development, though, has been a galvanizing, has <br />had a galvanizing effect on the community of Puako and is the one issue in Puako that the <br />community has remarkable unanimity in being concerned about and opposed to. We€ve <br />had a pole. <br />Ordinarily, to backup, ordinarily the Puako Community Association, as a volunteer <br />organization with no legal standing, tries to stay out of this kind of situation and just be a <br />conduit for information to and from the community about what€s going on that might or <br />might not impact the various residents, and be neutral, and not take a position, and not <br />getting involved in anyone else€s business. <br />But in this particular situation my phone and all of our phones have been ringing off the <br />hook.We€vegottenletters,someofwhichwepassedontoyouandsomeofwhichI <br />brought this evening, here this morning. <br />And we took a poll. And the poll has been, again, remarkably unanimous in terms of <br />being concerned about the density of the development, about the impacts on the reef, <br />about the treatment of wastewater, about traffic and the, as nearly as we can tell, the plan <br />for a narrower road than the Puako Road, which is already narrow in our view, and a <br />variety of situations, or a variety of concerns like that, like those. <br />So to summarize, I guess the, what I€ve brought here, the reason that the Puako <br />Community Association has filed for this standing is that we discovered that this is <br />something that is a uniformed concern to all of the residents of Puako who have <br />responded to me and to us. And we wanted to take a formal stand as opposed to our <br />normal neutral position. <br />FUJIKAWA:Commissioners, any questions with the representative of the Puako <br />Community Association? Springer? <br />SPRINGER:Good morning. Is your association a voluntary membership <br />organization? <br />MCGANN:Yes. <br />SPRINGER:And do you have members who live in close proximity to this who <br />are not represented among those who have come forward? <br />MCGANN:Yes. <br />SPRINGER:Thank you. <br />8 <br /> <br />