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Pahoa Beach, perhaps this is parking for all the new lot owners in the subdivision. He has literally moved thousands of yards of material, and another major runoff and discharge into the ocean is not only likely but probable. Then I remind you that Mr. Mohammadi has already been fined by the County for previous unauthorized grading. He was even quoted saying it is easier to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission.Can somebody stop this guy? Waipiele Gulch is starting to look like a strip mining operation before restoration – and I think I’ve included exhibits and photos in the testimony that shows exactly what it looks like. I asked Robert Usagawa to please email me or tell me if he has County approval for this new grading work, and obviously he did not. In September 2004, the Planning Department sent a violation letter and DLNR sent an illegal activities letter to Mr. Mohammadi for the grading that was performed in August 2004. The magazine “Environment Hawaii,” they published articles on this incident in June 2005 and January 2006. And recently Mr. Mohammadi listed his house for sale for $17,000,000. So I spoke with Kath Luga who was Carlsmith Ball’s and Steven Lim’s paralegal, and she kept asking me, you know, when I filed this contested case, what do I want? And what I want is real, real simple. I don’t want any vehicular access to Pahoa Beach except for emergency vehicles, as the Planning Director has stated in his conditions. One thing that he failed to mention in that condition was that Mr. Mohammadi also has a private driveway from his house to go directly onto this pedestrian access, right? And that’s not called out in the conditions, and I just want to make sure that that is not allowed; that he cannot take his private vehicle from his house and drive down onto Pahoa Beach. I want the land that currently looks like a road because it’s cut like a road to at least be reclaimed so it looks like a path. I understand roads and emergency vehicles – excuse me – I want to make sure that emergency vehicles have the ability to access Pahoa Beach, if anybody gets hurt, right? But I don’t want the access looking like a road. So in other words, can we at least create some kind of landscape to make it look more like a path and less like a road? And finally, if you notice in the exhibits, especially Exhibit A-2, right, the pathway that comes down from his house, I would like it to be reclaimed; I would like the vegetation and the shrubs to look like the surrounding gulch sides instead of having what looks like a giant landing strip coming down the gulch, right? I mean, the whole point in this thing is, I mean, the photos that you see today on the exhibit I gave you were taken on Wednesday, okay? Some of the photos I have, or Jeff Darrow has shown you previously, were taken in August 2004, so that’s over four years ago. And in that time you can see that there’s not been much re-vegetation because there’s not much soil on these slopes of these gulches, and in addition there’s not much rainfall in this particular area, right? So I’ve been told that there is water available and that perhaps soil available. But I would like to see that area reclaimed, and for a real simple reason – I have a beautiful, beautiful view of Pahoa Beach from the land that I purchased, and looking at this abomination in Waipiele Gulch does not help me; I mean, I had a beautiful site picked out and this is what happens. But I really, my main concern is that there’s more reclamation being done, right, than it’s currently on the land. And I hope there is some way that the Planning Director can enforce that. Thank you very much for your time. EXHIBIT B 12