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hand. You swear or affirm to tell the truth now before the Hawai`i County Planning Commission? R. THURMAN:I do. ALAMEDA:Okay, again, please state your name and address for the record? R. THURMAN:My name is Richard Thurman. My address is 17-204 Meaulu, Keaau, Hawai`i. Thank you for taking the time to listen to us. Unfortunately, I’m the last one up and probably the longest winded of us all. Is it okay to introduce evidence? ALAMEDA:Did we have that as part of our packet? What’s the title of it? R. THURMAN:This happens to be from the Planning Department. ALAMEDA:I think we might already have it. R. THURMAN:A letter from Marimed Corporation, and then also a letter from Mr. Chris Yuen in rebuttal or an answer to that letter. ALAMEDA:Jeff, could you take a look at that, please? Mr. Thurman, you did give us a letter. Did you send us a letter of your testimony already? R. THURMAN:I probably sent a couple of letters and a couple of emails, and at the County level and at the State level. ALAMEDA:Okay. So just let me ask Jeff. If we don’t have it, if you could attach it to his letter? Would that be appropriate? DARROW:You mean, to make copies? What I can do is pass them around now. We can pass it around now; and then we can go ahead and make copies for the Commissioners for the next meeting. So, at least at this point, we can see, you folks can take a look at it. ALAMEDA:Okay. Thank you. You may proceed, sir? R. THURMAN:Thank you. First of all, I’m from California. I’ve lived in Hawai`i, going on four years now. I am a home builder. Remodeling is what I do for a living. I’m somewhat familiar with the building codes and the ordinances here of the County of Hawai`i, just completing a house in Keaau Ag Lots. The reason I built the house in Keaau Ag Lots was I built the house. I live in a house for a couple of years, and then I sell that house, and I move on; and I build another house. I do one at a time, I do it right, and then I move to the next one. I entered into the Keaau Ag Lots specifically because it is zoned and the CC&R’s specifically specify that there are no commercial businesses allowed in there, to include me. Because as a building contractor I cannot even use my own home address as an operational address because commercial businesses are not allowed in the Keaau Ag Lots. The Keaau Ag Lots, and there’s a good reason why. First of all we have the brand new Kamehameha School right across the street EXHIBIT D 21