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TYLER:You may. WATANABE:With regard to the survey and also the 10-foot additional buffer that Mr. Lau has agreed to provide, do you have any objections, or are you contesting the actual location of the Judd Trail, or is it more an issue of the historical content, or, that’s within this cultural assessment? TYLER:Thank you for that question, Mr. Chairman. I’m not contesting the location. It appears to me that Wes Thomas went out there, and what they did was they located what wall they found on Mr. Lau’s property. I believe that there’s more of the trail on Mr. Lau’s property or it may have been, the walls may have been destroyed, in other words, its physical delineation may have been destroyed, which is not shown there. And the Hawaiians didn’t have a, you know, didn’t have GIS equipment, so things weren’t always straight. So I think it has to, it has to be looked at in light of the big picture which is, okay, so this individual owns this property and this individual might be the same individual who owns this property and there’s a metes and bounds description but there’s this trail that runs along, or through, or meanders through this particular straight line; and all too often it’s overlooked because of the modern metes and bounds description. But this, as Mr. Iwashita has point out, is a government road subject to the Highways Act of 1892. So I’m not contesting it, but I’m just pointing out to the Planning Commission, ‘cause this is going to happen again, maybe even today, that these kinds of things have to be taken into consideration. It is always not just the straight line. Thank you. WATANABE:Thank you. But, you know, with Mr. Lau being willing to deed over this to whatever entity, the State I guess it would be, and the fact that the Judd Trail is on the southern border and not within any building area because the setbacks would definitely exclude the Judd Trail, I tend to feel that we should be able to proceed without that much concern about the actual preservation of the trail. And they also have conceded that they will stabilize to the best of their ability what exists, yeah? TYLER:Absolutely; and I don’t, you know, that’s your prerogative. I’m merely expressing to you my opinion of the way things are. It has been accepted, it’ll be your decision. My concern, as I told Mr. Lau, is that the trail is protected and that if it has been destroyed that it, you know, be put back. There are large preserved areas here. Mr. Kennedy has pointed out these are unusually large. I’m grateful for that, I’m very grateful for it. I said I do not oppose this project. I just want to be sure that there are conditions in place and there are covenants recorded so that we don’t have the kinds of repetitive situations that occurred with so many important cultural resources. WATANABE:Okay, thank you. TYLER:You’re welcome. WATANABE:Are there any other questions? Mr. Iwashita? EXHIBIT A 18