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have chosen to serve and said that you would honor that decision. I look to you, as do all of us in this room. Thank you. HOUSEL: Thank you. Could you give your address, please? DUNCAN: My address, yes, sorry, it’s 75-6152 Plumeria Road. HOUSEL: Thank you. Commissioners, do you have any questions of the testifiers? Thank you. Thank you very much. We’ll call the next people who would like to testify: Benjamin Cohn, Debbie Tanaka, Eugene Schmitz and Nancy Coppola – and we have two more – Kevin Seiter and Simmy McMichael. Oh, Okay, Kevin already testified, so we will not have him come back. Is that Irminsul? If you could please pick up the microphone and raise your right hand. I’ll ask you all at the same time. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Planning Commission? Please say aye, if you -. TESTIFIERS: Aye. HOUSEL: Thank you. We’ll start on this side. If you would state your name and address, please, using the microphone. COHN: Hi, my name is Benjamin Cohn. My address is P. O. Box 368, Hlualoa, Hawai‘i 96725. I was born and raised here in Kona. My father practices law with Kevin Seiter who testified earlier. What gets me mostly about this is all the pollution that it causes during the building process and after the building from the sewage and things that run off during people’s, you know, showering and their bathroom usage. And that’s going to make a lot of people sick. And those sicknesses are going to reflect when people that are sick, seeing you guys here in the community, when they say, that’s the guy or that’s the girl who, this is the reason why the condos are here, if you choose to approve this. And anyone who is involved in the project is going to be charged with that responsibility of this sickness and so it will rest on you. HOUSEL: Thank you. TANAKA: My name is Debbie Tanaka. My address is 77-203 Ho‘owaiwai Place, Kailua-Kona. I just wanted to come today and voice my opinion because I think we need no more condos on Ali‘i Drive. We need more open land for our people to be able to go and enjoy the ocean and the sunsets. And enough development already – there’s plenty other places they can build this, not on Ali‘i Drive. Thank you. SCHMITZ: My name is Eugene Schmitz. I reside at 77-158 Mahiehie Street, Kailua-Kona 96740. Unlike probably most of the people here, my wife and I have not lived here very long; we’ve only been here fulltime about six years. We do live close to Ali‘i Drive, and go up and down it quite often obviously because of, unfortunately, the lack of mauka-makai connectors. But we do enjoy the drive very much. I do not surf. I don’t really know very many surfers. It’s great to see that so many people who have to come to testify that are not directly connected with surfing. What I do enjoy very much about Ali‘i Drive and what I think serves the community 10 EXHIBIT C