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FUJIKAWA:Thank you. Go ahead and introduce yourselves with your address <br />and then we go to the next person. What is your name? <br />MACISAAC:My name is Andrew MacIsaac and I live at 73-1183 Mamalahoa <br />Highway. <br />FUJIKAWA:Okay. And next person? <br />WILSON:My name is Paula Wilson and I live at 73-4517 Mamalahoa <br />Highway, which on the map is Lot No. 2. <br />FUJIKAWA:Okay. And the next person, your name? <br />SOUTHER:Carol Souther, 73-4526 Mamalahoa Highway is my address. <br />FUJIKAWA:Okay. <br />SOUTHER:That€s not where I live. <br />WHITMYER:My name is Robert Whitmyer. I live on the same street but I don€t <br />knowthelotnumber. <br />FUJIKAWA:Okay. Let€s start with your testimony with your first. <br />MACISAAC:It appears that the Planning Commission has done a fair amount of <br />work on the roadway issues and I think that€s primarily the, at least my concerns and a lot <br />of the concerns of the neighbors. But I think a bunch of the questions I have in my <br />testimony have been addressed, but I think I€d like to go ahead and just go ahead and read <br />my testimony to emphasize the concerns that I have and some of my neighbors do. <br />I am an abutor to abutors to the property under consideration. <br />My first objection to the application is the classification request itself. The 1989 County <br />General Plan for this applicant€s parcel and the larger area of North Kona over time <br />appears to be Low Density Urban and Residential. The County General Plan Revision <br />Program for 2002 proposed general plan documents have a Land Use Pattern Allocation <br />Guide Map of North Kona, it€s number, Map No. 2, showing the area bounded by Hina <br />Lani Street, Kaiminani Street and Mamalahoa Highway to be an area slated for urban <br />expansion as Low Density Urban. This is an area serviced by major islandwide <br />thoroughfares and is already a center for residential development and urbanization in <br />Kona. I have heard testimony at previous hearings describing the agricultural marginality <br />of the land in this immediate area and have some hands on experience to believe it to be <br />likely. I think the fallacy that this and similar applications perpetuate is that a zoning <br />change from a larger 4-acre Ag-3 lot to an Ag lot one seventh the size creates a greater <br />agricultural potential on this marginal land and is not in effect residential urbanization. <br />In fact, this application is low density residential urbanization, masking itself as <br />9 <br /> <br />