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BUSCEMI:Good morning to all the members of the Commission and thank you very much for allowing me to speak in front of you today. IÓll try and be brief. I know you have a long day. I have submitted to the Commission letters that I have received from about three dozen owners of single-family homes adjacent to this proposed property Sea Village. Please read the letters. People have faxed these past several weeks. So I apologize for my voice being a little bad. IÓve been speaking with them almost constantly for the past five days. I have about six points that IÓd like to go through before I wrap up. You heard Mr. Haney talk about the application claiming a 20-foot easement in a location where the Applicant really only has a 16-foot easement at present. The application, the way itÓs stated in the application, itÓs erroneous; and I hope the Board realizes that. You also have in your possession the letters from the DPW and the KTSC that suggest that for such a large project, the driveway needs to be at least 20 feet wide, potentially 24 feet wide. The DPW also asked for pedestrian footpaths and for flares out to Alii Drive so that large trucks, especially, can slow down on their way coming around the sharp corner. ThereÓs currently no way that a 20-foot or 24-foot driveway with flares could be accommodated in this space. This is a very popular surfing location, as Mr. Haney said. We have lots of foot traffic, thereÓs not very good parking in the area. And just yesterday the police were out there trying to get people to move their cars because they park alongside Alii Drive and go surfing. The application also talks about sewer lines as required in Section 8 of the Hawaii County General Plan and discusses running lines from Alii Drive to the property. However, there is concern that thereÓs currently no easement for any sewer lines to go from Alii Drive to Parcel No. 30. I have spoken to Mr. Michael Kniss, he owns the single-family house next door to the Soto property, and he told me that when he built his house two years ago, he was told that there was no legal way for him to put sewer lines across Parcel 37; and his legal counsel told him to try to find another way to put his sewer lines, which he eventually found. My fourth point is potentially the most important point and that concerns the archaeological assessment thatÓs contained in the application. This is Exhibit B. It discusses extensive grading of the property; and it also says that absolutely no archeological sites were found on the property. Well, local residents that IÓve talked to remember that part of the property was graded, they believe, by Mr. Soto without the proper permits. The part of the property that Mr. Soto graded does not contain the graves that Ms. Nagai talked about, in fact. The graves that Ms. Nagai talked about is further down near the shoreline, and it potentially has boulders on top of it; but it has not been bulldozed. 11