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sound travels a long way. And I’ve had previous history of noise nuisance from this property of those associated dwellings that you were, they talked about their transit workers on. Up where we are at, it’s a climate, you know, the climate here in Kona, we don’t have closed structures – people sleep with their windows open. When they’re playing music, you know -. Their permit is directed at, it looks like, the wedding market. They stated four events per day, going into 10:00 p.m. at night with 75 people. Weddings have a lot of music, bands, noise. I mean, in agricultural area we have plenty of noise as is, which we are accustomed to – tractors, chainsaws, the business of agriculture. That tends to go on through the day and shuts off around 5:00 o’clock at night when people stop working. Having weddings, weddings that have music running, people having a good time, entertaining, you know, they are not thinking about the neighbors in the community that have to work, that want to enjoy the tranquil nature that we have right now. So basically -. And previous years, and it’s not been one incident, it’s not been two incidents, it’s been many times and different years where we had issues with noise from the workers from this property. I mean I can hear it inside my house with my windows closed, I mean, and that’s just a couple of workers having their music turned up too loud. Imagine the noise from a wedding that’s catering to 75 people – it’s going to be carrying out all over the place. It’s like, I didn’t move into an agricultural community to listen to a hotel environment right next door. So that’s my opposition that I wanted the council (sic) to maintain. Thank you. HOUSEL: Could you point out where your property is? ROUNTREE: I’m adjacent or more mauka to – thank you – on this map, I would be about right here in the community further higher. My residence is, like, right there. But I can tell you, in this area the sound travels. It’s very humid. We are up in the clouds most times in the afternoon the clouds are there. They asked whether it’s a rainy environment; yeah, it rains almost every afternoon this time of year up there. And in a humid area, the sound travels for long ways. But that’s where I live. HOUSEL: Commissioners, do you have any questions? I had one more question. Looking at your location, so your concerns are both the farm activity noise and -. ROUNTREE: No, no, (inaudible). SAUER: Please use the microphone. HOUSEL: Use the microphone, please. ROUNTREE: I’m not complaining about normal agriculture – that’s what I’m expecting. This having a change or a Special Permit, effectively you’ll have a hotel structure having weddings and band music after – that is what my objection is. It’s not to making money and having commerce in an agricultural environment; it is to having an exception there that’s not within a model of our community. I mean, we heard about the owner’s being Japanese interest; what is the community interest from this activity? I don’t see any community benefit from this noise pollution. It’s not like for the greater good in my opinion. For me, it’s, “business is business” is fine for agriculture but not a hotel. 6 EXHIBIT B