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that says Tranquility Zone. And youre welcome to stop on a Saturday and come in and say prayers for those who are serving for you in Iraq, or wherever. And its silent. Its a wonderful time to relax and be in that atmosphere. We think its a beautiful home; but wed not be able to live here any longer because of the choking traffic. No one can come into town any longer. No one can find the aloha. Such a shopping village that youre creating there mentally will bring in 20,000 cars easily. Thats just inevitable. You dont see it, you live in Hilo. We wanted to go to the meeting and everybody who wanted to be here cant be here because theyre working, trying to hang on to their small businesses. You can go to KTA and get wonderful detergent for $4.95, you cant get that in the big, the others. When you walk out half, half the amount of what you spent in a big store you can get in a local store. And that has to be thought about; and if you dont think about it then think about thefactthattheresafireunderthatdumpsterinfrontofthepolicestationinKona.Theyhada fire under that. You know, it has been buried there. And thats what its going to be when theyre moving things like the Dillingham did off the coast in Honolulu. We watched Waipahu drown, we watched how the big building they would put in for the big supercenter that they did there, how you get lost. You cant find your way back to Wahiawa, you cant find yourself to Mililani. Youd get lost for an hour if you drive. Its going to happen like that in five years, would be my forecast from what weve seen. We only had one light, one there at the corner of, like a small Pay For Less, Longs Drug store coming into Kona; and look at it now. And weve been here 27 years. So my fear is that its, again, planning, that if you can think beyond where we are now and the pressure youre under, my esteem friends who were voted by the people, for the people, of the people, youre going to, the highest minded individuals that were going to have, youre grand, gentlemen and ladies. And I know you all. I know you, I hear what you do. But if you look at the plan, look at the slopes that you can put that on. Put that superstore somewhere else, say more centrally located, Waimea area. You know, give them a chance. Just come, come stay at my house; and Ill have to give you a shower because youre going to wait in line for a long time. Now we do have a light there because weve had so many people die in accidents coming up Hinalani and going down and not being able to put on the brakes and going on to the Kaahumanu Highway. You can really die in those intersections. Think what its going to be when you have a big van and you have a big cabin and its full of stuff that just came in from China that youre going to put in one of those stores? Its not for the people and of the people. For the people and of the people are these small family operations that have generations, like Teshimas Restaurant, and from just shave ice to what she has today, a 100-year birthday, what her family has done for this island. And think of how many weve lost who had to move to the mainland because they cant live in it anymore. You have to have a big truck to be important. Do we need any more? Thank you very much. WATANABE:Thank you. Are there any questions of this testifier? DOMINGO:Question. WATANABE:Go ahead. 7 EXHIBIT B