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fishermen and, oh, a little bit more about the committee. The s this September meeting brought together about 30, 35 people from the community, all of them fishermen, not necessarily from Pepeekeo alone but, also, from Ninole. These are people that have used the shoreline accesses to do their night-t result of that, there was a steering committee of about six members, I think it is, and we have been sitting in on meetings and sometimes two or three of them a month to go over the concerns that were voiced by the fishermen. So the agreement thatÓs spoken about is one that was entered upon with the preference from Continental Pacific to deal with the fishermen of the area, specifically, you know, people that perused the area. We have come to an agreement and we are satisfied with the accesses that were granted. And the specialness or the uniqueness that, you know, people are mentioning here about this agreement is that the relationship between landowner and the community shows a very passionate and sensitivity to the identity of the area. I cannot, with all regard, have people that have fished there for 30 to 40 years be deprived of their fishing grounds simply because of a develop that has money. But what, what they did was, I told them about our strategic plan, the vision of maintaining a rural lifestyle; and one of the top ten priorities was environment, which was accesses to fishing, hunting, gathering rights. And theyÓve been sensitive to this and thus have allowed the Fishing Access Committee, accesses, you know, vehicular access to a certain point along the shoreline and after that point, it was like walking. The fishermen were agreeable to that. They could go down to a certain area; and they were agreeable to walk east or west of that area knowing full well that they have to carry their fishing supplies and whatever load they have to do. But the fact is that they have agreed to that. There are little things, there are things that we need to work out, like who will be granted access. But this is a community that operates like a typical community. You know, there are no timelines or guidelines. So, you know, I commend Continental Pacific for being very patient. It took us over, well over two years to bring this to fruition. And we held the meeting, and we got the agreement of the Fishing Committee members to go ahead. We read agreement out loud, I read the rules out loud, I read the waivers out loud; and they each got a copy of it. So they are very well aware of what was at stake and what they were authorizing the Fishing Access Committee to agree to. So our support of SMA 03-009 is for the Continental Pacific, LLC GALDONES:Thank you. Commissioners, any questions of Ms. Mendoza? YUEN:I have a question. GALDONES:Mr. Yuen? YUEN:Yes. I just had a question and whether you had the agreeme reviewed by any legal counsel on your side. IÓm just concerned that you, from looking at it, you may have an agreement thatÓs not necessarily binding on the private lot owners in 16