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lives and their keiki’s lives. So I just want to mlama what we have and take care of one another. I come with peace and positivity and I thank you for this time. Mahalo. HOUSEL: Thank you. PALMA-GLENNIE: Aloha. My name is Janice Palma-Glennie and my address is P. O. Box 4849, Kailua-Kona. And Mahalo for listening to us today. I really appreciate the testimony that’s gone before me; it’s been very moving. As the only planning body representing the interest of West Hawai‘i residents, this Commission must deny the request of this SMA permit. Besides the obvious environmental, cultural and aesthetic reasons why this complex is inappropriate for the sensitive site, there are also issues of concurrency as it relates to smart growth. These are more than concepts in our county. They are now laws through the Kona Community Development Plan. Though this parcel received the zoning pre-CDP, the community-driven plan mandates sustainability and integrity in land use planning, and demands that additional high-density development be denied along this corridor until adequate infrastructure exists to handle it. The mega condo and housing development approved during the last 25 years has been predicated upon the construction of a far distant, and unfortunately probably false claim, that a relief road would be built parallel to Ali‘i Drive. This road was promised to handle the impossibly increasing infrastructure deficit and was used time and again as an excuse for permitting more and more development along this corridor. This joke of non-planning has proven an increasing nuisance and danger for residents of the area, and has spread its poison to recreational users and others who want to use alternative transportation like biking and walking to minimize the need for motor vehicles. Sadly, but not unusually, this speculator sees Kona as nothing more than a cash cow – and I just found this out – but even though that it’s shocking that this is where this talented person whom I’ve known for decades has chosen to go. I didn’t know that until just now. And Cory must have more money than sense or his head in the clouds, if he thinks there is an economic need for this development at this time or if he imagines that it’s the right thing to do. Fortunately, law makers don’t have to follow such a mistaken lead. This site obviously demands that a scale-down project be built. And to avoid excessive damage to the shoreline, viewplane, natural airflow, which includes energy use, cultural and historic resources and infrastructure of the area, nothing more than the existing low- rise single family residence, if anything, should be built out there. This Commission’s job is to make choices that protect West Hawai‘i’s community and resources above speculative schemes. Giving an SMA permit is a choice, not a given, otherwise why go through a permitting process at all. Will this Commission continue the joke of a legacy of rubberstamping project after project, even though the County knew the alternative road these plans depend upon had at best been in a 25-year holding pattern and that was ten years ago? Please do your job of community representation and true land use planning by denying this SMA permit. Mahalo. HOUSEL: Thank you. RAPOZA: Good morning, Chairman Housel, Planning Director Leithead Todd and Commissioners. My name is Ed Rapoza. I live in Kailua-Kona. I have been on the planning committee for the Community Development Plan as well, and although Janice and I had debated 14 EXHIBIT C