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And if you look at my letter real quickly, I kind of separated it in here and I put in the things that I thought that as a whole that we wanted for all of our communities here: we want infrastructure to help with the traffic mitigation which we are sorely missing; we want to preserve agricultural lands and natural resources; we want affordable housing, which is now happening because the County Council has gone forward and Kamakoa is in the process of being grading and starting that; we want more and better parks to meet the needs of the young and old – wouldn’t it be great to have picnic facilities for family and neighborhood gatherings besides providing recreational facilities; we want adequate public schools so our children do not have to travel long distances; we want to preserve and protect our oceans and historical landmarks from destruction, which is happening now – if you go up Waikoloa Road, on the Kona side you’ll see this cinder cone that’s being destroyed. Anyway, Waikoloa Village needs are as follows: we want more community facilities for residents use; we want another road to enter and exit so we are not the largest cul-de-sac in Hawaii County; we want environmental concerns as to agriculture and fire mitigation – the Village Association itself is working very carefully with the grazing agreement now so that we are having our lands, which they were done previously, Parker Ranch used to have a contract with the Waikoloa Village Association and they grazed our lands and so we have that back in place so cattle are coming on the lands mauka of the Village so that we can preserve and hopefully stop any major fires – we don’t need another one like we had when we had 25,000 acres burned; we want to make our community more user-friendly to make more services available locally to cut down driving long distances for goods and services; we want to have Urgent Health Care facilities within the Waikoloa Village area – and I understand the land that Waikoloa Mauka sold to Metric Holdings is in the process of possibly putting in an Urgent Health Care area; and we want local schools so driving long distances is not necessary. Now, I know that you cannot, as the Planning Commission, pass onto the County Council and ask them to have schools, but you can influence schools being built in our area so that as Waikoloa kids go through schools, they go elementary, intermediate, high school, they will not have to drive to Kealakehe High School where we used to live very close to in Kona. Thank you. WATANABE: Thank you. Do we have any questions for Ms. Tinsman? No? Thank you. Lisa Yee? YEE: I’m Lisa Yee. My address is 68-1787 Ho`oko Street – with the okina between the two o’s – Waikoloa, 96738. I’m kind of humbled and impressed by all the previous speakers, and my presentation is a little more simpler. But basically, I live in Waikoloa, I totally agree with Alice – all the things that are set forth, district-wide as well as in the Waikoloa plan, I fully endorse. I really feel like it came from all the people. I don’t know if you notice all the keikis back there, you know, that the parents brought. But you know, it’s really hard, when you are working, you know, everybody, lots of people here, they rushed over here after work because this is something really important to us. And I’ve lived on this island for 29 years. I’m a second-generation Chinese, born and raised in Honolulu. I came here, went to Hilo College, I met Chris Yuen, I met Hanna Springer there. And you know, people who are our age, we have not had this democratic opportunity to contribute to working laulima together to plan and take action at, like Mr. Domingo said, to preserving this really beautiful place we live in. Ha – the air, the breath. Wai – the fresh water. And the kai – my blood is like sea water. You know, this EXHIBIT E 18