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right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth today before the County Hawaii Planning Commission? SALAVEA: I do. WHITE: I do. WOODWARD: Thank you very much. Okay, Allen, name and address. Well, we know who you are but give your name and address anyway. SALAVEA: Allen Salavea, 25 Aupuni Street. I’m the project manager for the North Kohala Community Development Plan, and we do not have a presentation here. Today we don’t have anything additional to add but I do have the Steering Committee Chair here as resource just in case. I can hand over the mike for her to introduce herself. WHITE: Aloha and good afternoon, Chairman, Planning Director and all of the Planning Commissioners that do such great work. WOODWARD: If you would give your name and address for the record. WHITE: My name is Fern White and my address is 54-2379 Kynnersely Road, Kohala. WOODWARD: Thank you. You may begin your testimony. WHITE: Okay. I do want to thank everyone for all of the work that they’ve done. I primarily would be happy to answer any additional questions that the Commission may have. I think that there are three points that the Steering Committee would love for you to consider. And those three points are that we do, of course, support the CDP and its move forward with a recommendation for approval. And those are because we entirely went though a community process that was lengthy because the plan contains comments, the community’s ideas and reflects its intent, and because the plan maintains a venue and a way for decision-making to consider our way of living and to make those decisions through consideration of our way of living at the core in the future. And granted there are points for consideration. You know, landowners have some concerns and have expressed concerns about what procedures, and how that might go, and how that might actually work out. Granted there are some concerns over taking, the term taking. Others have expressed concern over inadequate provision to prohibit growth. Or some folks have even raised concern over or take an issue with exact words that they wanted to be in the plan. But the SC was charged with taking. But the taking that we did is the taking in of all of the ideas of our community and the taking in of all of their thoughts and desires and intent, and then creating a package that compromises and provides a fair and reasonable guide for future land use decisions in our community. We believe we have done that given the timeframe and all the conditions. And we as a Steering Committee, we chewed, we chomped, we fully considered the contentious, the complementary, the ideas and proposals. We maintained the consensus-based procedure EXHIBIT C 2