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GRAHAM: Commissioners, do you have any questions for Jeff at this time? All right. Thank you, Jeff. My inclination at this time, we have one public testifier signed up. I feel like once we bring the applicant forward and we start doing our, you know, interchange, we could be going with a lot of detail, maybe legal issues, whatever. So I’d be inclined to ask for public testimony now so that this person could come in and we can hear what they have to say. Is that okay with the Commission? COMMISSIONERS: Yes. GRAHAM: Okay. So the public testifier I have is MerryAnne Stone. And if anyone else would like to give public testimony on this matter please go to the end of the table and sign up; and they’ll let me know. Ms. Stone, could I swear you in first. STONE: Sure. GRAHAM: Could you raise your right hand and -. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter before the Commission today? STONE: I do. GRAHAM: Thanks. And give your name and address, and then just carry right into your testimony. STONE: Good morning, Mr. Chairman and Members of this Commission. My name is MerryAnne Stone. I live at 77159 Kaipoi Place in White Sands Subdivision. And I came before your counsel the last time when D-Bar Ranch tried to get approval with this. This is a huge impacted area. They’re planning on putting 120 condominiums, I believe they’re two- and three-bedrooms. The traffic that’s going to be resulted from this is going to be horrible. At one point when they proposed their project before, they were quite proud in saying that they want to make it a pedestrian-friendly type of park or project so that the folks that are staying in the condos can go to the beach easily and they have direct access. Pahoehoe Park and also White Sands Park are so heavily trafficked at this point. We have no parking for the people who are there. During the weekends both sides of Alii Drive are stacked with cars.White Sands parking lot is also stacked with cars. This project spoke about using the existing paved area in front or to the south of the pumping station. And right now there is, already cars, many cars parking in there on a continual basis, just because there is not enough parking in all of the condominiums and at the park. And what I’m hoping is that you will understand that. Again, I don’t believe that this condominium is providing anything, amenities for the people in the project. I sort of wished I could have heard from them first so I could have had a refresher course on their project because it has been almost a year. Wasn’t it August of 2006 you mentioned that we were here? And so it would seem like a project of this size would have a swimming pool or recreation gathering center. The way I understand it, they do not. So all of these folks are going to be using the beach exclusively for any type of recreational activity. I think that this is irresponsible for the developer to do this. EXHIBIT B 3