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HOUSEL:Okay, thank you. <br />SACHEL: Thanks for your concern. I appreciate it. <br />WATANABE: Thank you. You may be seated. Okay, Mr. Mooers, would you care to <br />address that? I understand that this is at the most a 14-lot subdivision. So, you know, -. <br />MOOERS: I appreciate the concerns. I think one of the things that may have been lost <br />in the application unless you read my application carefully, is that at the top of Ala Kahua Drive, <br />which is the road that provides access to this subdivision, there is a volunteer fire department at <br />the top of that, right above them. There’s also a locked gate that goes into Kohala Ranch. And <br />Kohala Ranch has always been good neighbors in the past in times of accidents on Kawaihae <br />Road and other areas of allowing people, the public, to transfer through their property. And I <br />think that’s a reasonable expectation here. So that really there is a mauka exit available and the <br />gate –. <br />WATANABE: Albeit locked. <br />MOOERS: Is right next to the volunteer fire department. <br />WATANABE: Oh, okay, okay. So your response basically is an alternate exit exists? <br />MOOERS: That’s correct. And I cannot speak for Kohala Ranch, other than to say <br />that as a, I live on Kawaihae Road, and when there are accidents that close the road, the police <br />work with Kohala Ranch and we go through Kohala Ranch up through the mauka side to get to <br />Waimea to, you know, bypass any accidents that occur on Kawaihae Road. That’s happened <br />both in times of car accidents and also in times of fire. I can’t tell you what the official <br />arrangement is with Kohala Ranch other than to say that to this point they’ve always been good <br />neighbors and provided that access. <br />I personally live in a gated community – oh, I shouldn’t say that – it’s a private road system and <br />it’s gated to adjoining properties on Kawaihae Road. It’s open to the main road. But in times of <br />fire the police always come and open those gates so that people are not trapped within these <br />subdivisions. <br />WATANABE: Or even with accidents, major accidents? <br />MOOERS: That’s correct. <br />WATANABE: Yeah, so it would sound as though the general public has a, at least some <br />awareness of the alternate route. <br />MOOERS: That’s true. <br />WATANABE: Ms. Giffin, you look like you had a question? <br />EXHIBIT A <br />9 <br /> <br />