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LANGER: Thank you, Mr. Watanabe. My name is Barbara Kahn-Langer. I live at th 15-2070 5 Street in Hawaiian Paradise Park. My mailing address is HC3 Box 14052, Keaau. th Okay? I live on the mauka side of 5 Street. From the second floor of my house I can look diagonally across the vacant lots to the Campbell residence. I am currently the chairperson of the School Committee in Hawaiian Paradise Park. I am a member of the Road Traffic Safety Policy Committee of Hawaiian Paradise Park. I was the chairperson of the 2005 Revised Master Plan for Hawaiian Paradise Park, and currently involved with the Puna Community Development Plan, and I was on the subtask force in Growth Management. I support the application for a special permit for the Campbell residence for a number of reasons. First off, the school property identified in the master plan of Hawaiian Paradise Park are for large institutional schools. In 2006 HPP Board of Directors established a School Committee to review applications for the use of those properties. They decided, that Committee asked the Department of Education if at any time they had plans to build schools under the DOE umbrella in any of the school properties within HPP. The response from DOE was, no, we built a new school in Keaau. Okay. So that takes care of some of those issues. All right, it is commonly understood by people in many communities throughout Hawaii island that home learning is taking place, that students go through a variety of home instruction in a variety of different ways and gather together in locations for tutoring assistance, not only here but in Kona as well. This application provides an opportunity for parents of children who wish to have a tutoring facility available to them for the education of their children in our neighborhood; and I’m speaking of neighborhood as this area of Hawaiian Paradise Park. When Mrs. Campbell put in her application, one of first things I did was call the Chairperson of our Roads Traffic Safety Policy Committee, that is Dennis Higgins, to come over, climb up the stairs in my house, look across all those vacant properties to the Campbell house and see would there be a problem with traffic, with road traffic, with vehicular turn around or anything like that. And he responded he didn’t think there would be a problem at all. If there are any further questions that any member of the Planning Commission has I’ll be pleased to answer them. Thank you. WATANABE: Fellow Commissioners, do we have any questions? It doesn’t appear so. Thank you very much for your testimony. You may be seated. Philip, please, name and address and then your testimony. MATLAGE: My name is Philip Gregory Matlage, M-a-t-l-a-g-e. My residence address th if 15-2063 7 Street in Paradise Park, city is Keaau, mailing address is Post Office Box 492446, Keaau, Zip Code 96749; and my wife and I live in the residence directly adjacent to the property for which the special permit has been applied. I believe that the granting of the special permit will adversely affect the tranquil nature of my home as well as the neighborhood due to increased traffic as well as noise, -- 16 children cannot be quiet, it’s not possible -- as well as the fact that there are, the property in question is two separate lots which are currently fenced and landscaped to be used as a single unit, rather than the single acre for which the application has been made. Photographs of the property will bear that out. I also believe that the use of a residential property for this purpose is inappropriate because we have public schools, which if they are inadequate need our support and assistance to achieve a higher level of training for the children. We have at this point a residence which has four individuals in it. When you add 16 students that adds up to 20 people using a residential cesspool, which is a significant health concern. There are also matters relating to the ability of the children to be physically safe. A facility which is housing EXHIBIT B 24