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WOODWARD: All right, thank you very much. Any other questions? Okay, Ms. Critchlow, if you’ll give us your name and address, and then you may give us your testimony. CRITCHLOW: Is this about right? WOODWARD: A little closer, a little louder maybe CRITCHLOW: A little closer, a little louder, okay. My name is Leigh Critchlow and my address is PO Box 524, Volcano, Hawaii 96785. And we’re talking about the same property here because I bought it in the mid-eighties and she has a life-time lease, she has a home on it. I have an agricultural shed and I spend as much time as I can there because I love the rural life and I love animals and I can’t have all that on a house lot in Volcano. So it has been a gradual thing.And when I bought it in the mid-eighties and, of course I didn’t just buy it. I mean I paid for it for a long time and I worked very hard to pay for it. It’s a 12-acre farm lot. It’s about 700 feet from the Maeda’s property with Jaime Histo’s 12-acre parcel in between. It’s divided up, a 50-acre parcel. And there’s 12 acres at the top and that is my parcel; then there’s the 12 acres below it and they’re pretty much square, 12 acres below it and that’s Jaime Histo’s, Jaime and Darlene Histo’s, and then below it, and Jaime’s is a flag lot; and Stewart’s and Dana’s is a 24-acre flag lot with the flag bringing the road down to their 24 acres. And it does seem that all of their stuff is concentrated at the very top of that 24 acres. And as has been mentioned in the written and oral presentations last time and this time Ihope is a single lane road. It is a County road and it is paved, but there are many places where there’s really no place to pull off. I just question the siting of this in this quiet agricultural area. It’s like it’s almost as far back in the midst of this agricultural area as you could put something that perhaps belongs in like the Shipman Industrial area or something. I love dogs, I love people. I’m sure the Maedas are really, really nice people; and I believe that people ought to be able to do with their property what they want to do with their property within the law and within reason. It’s just that the magnitude of this operation as initially proposed and then what the future might bring, it just doesn’t quite seem to mesh with what the area historically has been designated for. And it’s my understanding that once you have a certified kitchen, and as is common practice in many places here including the O’Keefe’s Bakery before they closed, they would, if you have a certified kitchen or certified bakery you can rent the facilities to people by the hour by the half day. And it’s a common practice for a lot of the home businesses to use a certified kitchen somewhere else because they don’t have a certified kitchen and then they sell their stuff at various outlets. And I just, I really worry about what that could lead to. It would sound terrific if that’s all it was; but I just turned 59 and, boy, I know just judging, things change, they really do, things that are totally out of our control. And who knows if this property were sold to someone else what they would use the commercial EXHIBIT A 13