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MEYERS: Yeah, my name is Curren Meyers. I live at 77-6424 Mahelani Street. And I’m representing myself and the local people over here, all the regular surfers, you know. So I’ve been surfing there for about 15 years. And enough is enough – enough condos, you know. The last thing I want to see is, riding the wave, looking at those condos. So, pau, enough. Thank you. HOUSEL: Are you going to provide testimony? PUBLIC ATTENDEE: I just didn’t have a seat. HOUSEL: Okay. Thank you very much. I’ll call the next six people to testify. Could William Duncan please come forward? Malia Chaul, Shannon Rudolph, Lorelei Jones, Myrna Thomas and Kupuna Hannah Reeves, please come to the table and have a seat. Could you please hold the microphone up? I realize we don’t have enough microphones, but -. Could you raise your right hand, please? 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. We’ll start on my far left here. Would you please give your name and address? JONES: My name is Lorelei Jones. I live at 76-6190 Plumeria Road, Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i. I oppose the condo because we don’t need any more condos. And if you guys keep putting it up and let him, permitting them to do it, what is there left for our kids and our grandchildren? And the tourists come here to see the sight and the shorelines and all this and that; they don’t come to see the condos. And that’s all I have to say. Thank you. THOMAS: Good morning. My name is Myrna Thomas. I reside at 73-1139 Oluolu Street in Kailua-Kona. I’m very deeply opposed to this development. It’s only because we have enough condos as it is on Ali‘i Drive where there is no public access, hardly. And when we do try to use the public access, people from their condos will come out as homeowners and try to say to us that we are trespassing. And all we are trying to do is get the food that we were born and raised with from our ocean. And if there’s more condos here, our fish won’t taste the same, the food that we eat won’t taste the same. Because of all the development, all this poison thing that’s going into our water – that’s making us sick. Way back when, when we were growing up, us Hawaiian people, my grandmas and their parents, we never heard of cancer, we never heard of hepatitis, all this kind of stuff. Now that we come down to Kailua, all these buildings are coming up left and right. Hawai‘i, old Hawaiian kupuna, they are dying left and right because what we are feeding them from our ocean. So I just want to say no more condos. We want to live longer than them. Thank you. HOUSEL: Thank you. 7 EXHIBIT C