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(as opposed to ‘cookie-cutter’ layout), wide grass shoulders for walkways and trees, and underground utilities (additionally advantageous in hurricanes and storms, as well as emergency relief efforts) ….” 5. Traffic. Our area is projected to have a substantial increase in traffic with the arrival of the Superferry in Kawaihae Harbor in mid-2009.The Kawaihae to Waimea roadway is already clogged. Some of the present traffic is unnecessary, as many Kohala Estates residents still prefer to receive their mail at the Kamuela Post Office, due to the very limited hours and services offered at the Kawaihae Postal Substation. For many years the Kohala Estates owners have requested postal delivery within Kohala Estates. Recent surveys have shown nearly unanimous willingness by Kohala Estates owners to support the expense of construction of postal cluster boxes, to be located, in most cases at the entrances of the individual small subdivisions within Kohala Estates. These small subdivisions, long since approved, are all committed to this effort. The Kamuela Post Office is cooperative, but requires cooperation by the road owner. The major owner of Ohana Kohala Trust is also the owner of the Kohala Estates roadway and is in the unique position to allow postal delivery, thereby directly reducing the daily traffic on the Kawaihae-Waimea roadway. I would add to this in response to the last testimony is the owner, Bob Acree, also owns Kohala Ranch Water Company. So he owns three sides of this project and the bulk of Kohala Ranch and Kohala Ranch Water Company. So in conclusion, I support a positive recommendation for this project by the Planning Commission, with conditions to take advantage of the outlined opportunities. And one just note of coincidence, the Kohala Estates Community Association received their notice to a physical address where we do not receive postal delivery. So this shows that there’s -. I just happened to receive this because they knew me at the Kohala Ranch entrance. So any of our mail that’s ever sent to – and this has happened to many of us – sent to our physical address never reaches us, and we’ve had packages and such returned all the way to East Coast. So it would be very helpful to us. And as I stated earlier, there are many people – I’ve done survey through the years – many people within Kohala Estates do not trust and do not care for the limited hours of postal delivery at Kawaihae, so they still retain and drive to their post office boxes in Kamuela on often a daily basis. And in particular problem is package delivery, and many people will come home from work or having gone to the Post Office, come to Kawaihae, find they have a package delivery slip, have to go back to Kamuela; this is adding a lot of traffic. Thank you very much for your time. WATANABE: Thank you. Fellow Commissioner, do we have any further questions for Ms. Fischer? Yes, Ms. Bowman. BOWMAN: I just want to apologize because I didn’t realize that the testifier was here, so I kind of jumped the gun when it came to asking the applicant. But thank you. EXHIBIT A 11