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basis we may not break till 1:30. So with that, I believe, Doug Arnott youre our next testifier. Would you state your name and address for the record, please. ARNOTT:My name is Doug Arnott at 98 Apapane which is the nearest next door neighbor to the subject property. And, first of all, I think I can clarify some of the things that have been said here today. One is that for, as its next door neighbor for 17 years I even considered buying it myself at one time and hiked around in inside of it, which was very difficult at that time and pretty extensively got to know how it works. I think actually to answer Rene Siracusas questions about this pond I think the nearest way that this pond works could be typified by how Kens House of Pancakes parking lot works; and most of you are aware of that being flooded during certain periods of high tide combined with rainfall. The ponds on this property are actually fed by springs, so there is a constant supply of fresh water going into the pond. What happen is when the salt water high tide intrudes from the sea it blocks that egress of that water and the water rises, and then when the tide goes down it leaves. There is some salinity.Buteverybodyneedstobeawarealsothatduringnormalhightradewindcombined with very high spring tide type of activity, this property floods with salt water. So any type of fresh water fish or things that are introduced to this pond will be killed by pure salt water, in a fairly regular cycle of natural occurrences. And this is something that Im sure the developers are aware of. Also, comments about various things that Ive heard, I mean, while it is a condominium, a condominium is a technical term. These are a bunch of low-rise places sitting on top of platforms. We have an example of this already on Lihikai Street, on traffic. Again, mentioning the question of Ms. Siracusas, we have this, Apapane is frequently used because we have frequent accidents along the corridor in front of this, of Kalanianaole, very frequent accidents, where the entire traffic in both directions have to go along Apapane Road and by people pulling off and being cooperative and a bit of hi cuz and, you know, stop and have a bit of a chat along the way. We manage to direct the entire traffic of Kalanianaola Highway quite successfully with a little bit of scraping along Apapane. So this is not a problem with getting 12 or 6 residents in and out. In fact, I would hazard to say that if we could stop the drug trafficking at the end of Lihikai Street, we will have net, less net traffic after this operation than we have now, which is something somebody might want to look into. So we hit the accidents. The other thing is this has been a real pain for us. I mean we run a hotel operation and we have to have our, facing that property literally covered with rat bait. I mean it is a pestilence. Its now coqui frog. We have to, in fact, put air conditioning in many of our units facing that direction because the guests from other places cant stand the volume of coqui frogs. So to us this is a very welcomed development. And I very rarely have any argument with the Keaukahaka Community. And Patrick I think theyre all great people. I think we tried deliberately to hire from Keaukaha and have been very successful with it. Were definitely a member of their community. And I think that this is a very positive step. When the neighbors come in, as you mentioned, they will be subject to us, were very much a part of the ohana. When we have problems we go to Paul Neves for Hooponopono. This is how we handle things around there. I think these people when they come under the influence of the neighborhood are going to be great neighbors and the pond will surely be opened up for the kids, the delightful kids that we have all around there. And so I see this as a very, very positive step. 16EXHIBIT A