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Please come up and sit at the table: K. Angel Pilago, Kevin Seiter, Subhadra, Tricia Malanka, Curren J. H. Meyers and Corbett Roy. Please be seated, and please use the microphones. If you could please start -. Well, I guess I’ll swear you all in, if you could hold the microphone, please, and raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Hawai‘i County Planning Commission? TESTIFIERS: I do. HOUSEL: Thank you. I guess we’ll start with you on the far right there. Oops, sorry, I couldn’t see you. CORCORAN: Good morning. My name is Subhadra and I’m very much against this project. I don’t think there is enough room there for this building. I don’t think we want it to be on the makai side of Ali‘i Drive -. HOUSEL: I’m sorry, hold on just a minute. Could you give your full name and address, please? CORCORAN: Yes, I can. Is this on? Can you hear me? My full name is Diane Corcoran. My address is 77-297 Kalani Way here in Kona, Kailua-Kona. Is that okay? HOUSEL: Yes, thank you. CORCORAN: Okay, again, I’m opposed to this project. I think that the main economy here is still tourism. I don’t think we want to be interrupting our view. I think very few people stand to gain from doing this, just very few, and I think all of us stand to lose something as we lose the beauty of this town by putting buildings right up against the ocean.I don’t think that’s necessary. I don’t think it’s economically wise. I don’t think it’s very kind to the people that surf there and picnic there and spend time there. It will definitely interrupt the view, if you are out in the ocean, sitting there, catching a wave or two. I don’t see any reason we don’t have to consider the surfers and the other people that make use of the ocean here.It would take the view from them, too. But I think, even more important, more important, we have to consider the economy. We have to consider what those tourists will see when they drive up and down that little strip. It’s not a very big strip, is it? And that’s all I really have to say. Thank you so much. HOUSEL: In the interest of time, because we’ve got a full agenda, please hold your applause, so we can keep this moving. Thank you. Next. MALANKA: My name is Tricia Malanka, 77-356 Paulina Place, Kailua-Kona. I’ll keep my remarks short and sweet. They apply to everyone who has been a party to this – the developer, the personal, the doctor who wants to make the development and you folks: Just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should. HOUSEL: Thank you. Again, please hold your applause, so we can keep this on schedule. Thank you. Could you give your -? 4 EXHIBIT C