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YUEN:Is that approximately two acres? OKANO:Yeah. YUEN:Okay. Is it okay then to say an approximately two-acre portion of Phase II of the park master plan? Is that agreeable -? OKANO:That would be the entire Phase II. YUEN:Okay. Thats agreeable to you guys? KUBOTA:Yes, thats agreeable. Thank you. YUEN:Okay.Thankyouverymuch. GALDONES:Furthercomments,questions?Ms.Okano,thankyouforparticipatingand I commend the work you folks have done. I appreciate that. Thanks. Miss Rohr, could you please state your name and your residence address and then you may begin your testimony. ROHR:Okay. Claudia Rohr, 369 Nene Street in Hilo. Im against the application for the change in the State Land Use Boundary. SIRACUSA:Excuse me, could you speak into the mike, please? ROHR:What? GALDONES:Could you speak into the mike, please. SIRACUSA:Louder. ROHR:Louder. Sorry, its very loud to me. I have a hearing problem. If Commissioner Springer could move her mike closer, that would help me when you speak. Thank you. Okay. Im against the Land Use Boundary Amendment for this reason. Theres no purpose given in asking for this amendment. They have no plans or use for the property particularly. The reason that they justify it is theyre saying the items in B, under this application, will be changed to residential, therefore, its some sort of trade. I say its no trade at all. Those items in No. B had a purpose at one time. They were businesses within the camp that had been in this area. There was a garage and, I think, a store; so those items were rezoned a particular way. Its not convenient to their subdivision plan to have to deal with those zoning, so theyre saying they would like to make it all residential, and I think that makes sense. But to say that they have some sort of credit is not correct. When the camp was moved uphill to Kulaimano, they did create 16