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GRAHAM:Carol, you know, in, I feel like youvegot, you know, a major issue with your road, which is terrible; and you guys have been living with it for a long time. And, so, when something like this comes up, its a chance to get some maybe redress from the County as far as improving things for you. But when I look at the overall thing, if theres an overall traffic problem, it was probably made when we did the Hualalai Vistas thing, which we did, you know, with a lot of thought from us, but maybe mistakenly, I dont know that. But it does feel to me like Mr. Smith is reaching a long way to try to accommodate what can help you guys out. And it seems to me the Planning Director has been quite firm with the Hualalai Vistas that he is going to require that it happen that way. So, other than your persistent problem of having that lousy road going into an over-burdened highway, I sure dont know any, I dont know whats an appropriate reaction on my part or our part in a reasonable manner to give you any help. So if you, I mean, if theres some little turnover, I mean, other than letting us know about yoursituationwhichyouallhaveverymuchdone,iftheressomelittlekernelofthisor that that would really, the specific, that would really help us here thats reasonable, you know, please come forth with it. Thank you. FUJIKAWA:Any other questions, Commissioners -? SOUTHER:And youve read all of my letters? GRAHAM:I dont know if Ive read all of them. I sure have done some reading of your material. FUJIKAWA:Right. Okay. You may go ahead with your testimony. WHITMYER:My name is Robert Whitmyer. I live on the road that most everybody else lives on in that Kohanaiki Subdivision. And the biggest problem that I have is when you buy a piece of property, you want to do what you want to do with it. And I understand that things are going to change, Kona is going to change, people are going to build houses and homes and improve land; and thats going to happen, thats inevitable. Theres nothing youre going to do to stop that. And you are in a position of where you have to do things for the overall common good. The only problem that I have is we keep doing things with in the future were going to do this, and in the future were going to do that, and if you do this, well, then well do that; and if you do this well go to the bank and well get the money and well do that. And, you know, things dont always happen like that here. Unfortunately, what we have, the reason Im very cynical is we have a street that 10 or 12 families live on and we used to have a very poor entrance and exit to the property on Old Government Road, or Kona Church of God Road, or whatever you want to call it; and at some point we had a supposedly-approved entrance and exit from the other end of the street, which isnt on this map here, and it was through some other peoples property that we were supposed to have easement to go to the highway on. So we spent a tremendous amount of time and 17