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To get to a few of my other concerns on this, I note on a technical nature the mailing and the application cites this as a request to zone to FA-2A, not FA-1A. I presume thatÓs a technicality that was in the heading that was sent us to us, since the rest of it seems to be addressed to FA-1A. I donÓt know what that does technically to the whole place, but that should be addressed appropriately. The local area where we reside is a very fire-prone area; and one of the things that the residents are requesting for that area is fire hydrants to be part of this. We were precluded many years ago from having adequate water supplies when the Kona Heavens subdivision, as approved, as implemented, failed to have the alignment addressed adequately and did not line up with the existing road infrastructure. It appears to be a case similar to what had happened with Henry Street. Somebody j were left without County water. The County water we have stretches through private lines over miles of land, private and public. We need water down there and we need it for fire. ThatÓs a very dangerous area. We all watched as the fires went roaring down below, prayed that the Fire Department and the dozers got in front of it, which they did. If it had gone a little bit further, if the breezes had been worse, we would have had a major loss of property up in there. We need fire hydrants along that road. Kona Hills, which had built a rock wall across the end of this road, precludes now the Fire Department from using the fire hydrants in Kona Hills, their fire hydrants to come into our area. So one of the things that we are requesting is that, that you ask the developer to provide fire hydrants on Kohanaiki Road, both fronting the property and on the major intersection that runs mauka-makai, so that they can drag hoses down the hill to the most critical areas where itÓs needed to fight fire in that area. Kohanaiki Road right now exists, Kohanaiki Road right now has a sign in front of it. On it, that says, ÐEnd of County Road,Ñ is precisely what it says. And so I presume that the road that youÓre asking to access is not a County road. Is that correct? GALDONES:Mr. Yuen? YUEN:Where is the end? GOODALE:The sign is about, IÓd say, probably about a third of a mile from the top of Kohanaiki Road. ItÓs not, itÓs actually on the upper section above Hamiha and that is where the sign is. And every time we have gone in to ask for cooperation in there, and when people, by your actions have people, have come through with other subdivision proposals, you have always deferred to the State as the controlling authority on this roadway. I believe those are matters on record. YUEN:This is probably a good time, and for the Commissioners as we all talked about roads in limbo, weÓve heard of roads in limbo, let me define a road in limbo. A road in limbo is a government road that the State and responsibility for or jurisdiction for. And I start by saying itÓs a road, itÓs a government road, itÓs a road that is clearly a government road. There are roads that weÓre not sure whether theyÓre private or government, but there are also many roads that are definitely 17