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friends and families someday to be able to afford to buy a piece of property in our neighborhood. And I’ve actually lived in the subdivision since – over 30 years, I think – since the subdivision was built, as a renter and now as a property owner. And that’s about it. WATANABE: Ms. Bowman. BOWMAN: I have a question of you and maybe the applicant, being that we just received something from the, I guess, Community Association. They talk about postal delivery. As a resident there, do you have any opinion about mail delivery to your home? PROHOROFF: You know, I’ve heard this idea passed about. But I’ve had my post office box in Kawaihae for 37 years now, and I’m perfectly happy with that situation. So I’m not really interested in the security problems or whatever that could be involved without boxes. BOWMAN: Do you, the reduction of, again, traffic to mail pickup, is that a concern for you for the future growth? PROHOROFF: Well, I really don’t see it, you know. I mean the traffic that we have already at the little crossroad at Kawaihae is going to have to be addressed, you know, in some measure in the very, probably pretty near future with the Superferry and everything coming. So I don’t see that, however many post office boxes are there. I think Kohala Ranch has a program already to have their own post office boxes. So our subdivision, I’m not so sure that it’s necessary. BOWMAN: Could I ask the applicant what their position on this is? MOORE: I’m not sure what the testimony is, so again, I’m at a loss in some fashion. In terms of the post office box, we don’t see any relationship to this application before the entity. The entity, Ohana Kohala Trust, has rights to access road; there are easements over the road. They are not the owner of the road; there’s some cross ownership there, but Trust itself is not involved in the ownership of the road. So we don’t see any linkage between this project and the mailbox issues or any other issues related to it. BOWMAN: Okay, thank you. Cause according to this testimony, I guess they had their, it says, “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.” So this is what I was taking from this. MOORE: Yeah, in terms of that, the owner, again, Mr. Acree, has an interest in the road and we sure are willing to work with the Community Association with respect to getting and maintaining and the ownership turning over to the Association, so it can be maintained and obtained the necessary requirements. Again, that is a separate discussion. We are supportive of that idea. Again, it should not affect this rezoning itself. BOWMAN: Okay, thank you very much. EXHIBIT A 7