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them to have it because all the-. Okay, this is Kipahele and Hoohua Street. This is Kamuela Highlands as you call Hoonani. Okay, this is what the Inaba want to do. All the subdivisions on this side towards Hilo are 8,000, 7,000 square foot lots. The streets are narrow. Sometimes you gotta pull on the side for them to pass you okay. We got the best subdivision of the are. Okay. SPRINGER:Mr. Lasiter before you continue can you identify the maps that youre showing us? LASITER:Yes okay this here is Hoonani. Okay. This here is the Inaba residence, what they plan to build and this is Waimea town. This here goes to Honokaa. SPRINGER:So the 3 sheets piece together to form one overview? LASITER:Ihave3sheetshereandIhave3pointstomake.Thankyouvery much. First of all, I want them to build that because I dont want to see a hundred homes here. You know I want Kamuela to be beautiful. They have the right to do it. We live in a great country, you know were Americans. And theyre going to build on this anyway. The flooding is a problem. And Im going to get to that right now. Now, at the bottom you see 3 yellow marks here. Okay these were originally drainage ditches. Theres 3 dry wells, theres 2 here on Kipahele Street and theres one on Hoohua Street. Now over the years this over here was back filled and sold, theres a house on it. This one here has been back filled and sold, theres a house on it. This one here has been sold. The drainage ditch that Mr. Matsumoto is talking about runs from the back property. It comes from this lot up here. I live on the top. It comes from this lot goes all the way down and dumps in here. Now, water comes from our subdivision down, hits the road and all the subdivisions dump their water on the side of the road, on both sides it flows that way. Now, about a quarter mile down is one culvert which runs under the highway to a ditch which goes to the flood plane; we call that Lake Waimea. Theres no hotel there. Okay. All right. Now, year and a half ago March, the rain came, the rain. Ive never seen so much rain. Ive been here since 1987. I never seen so much water. I got concrete all around my house. I got a angle at it. I had water 10 feet from going under my house; Ive never seen water like that. Never. The stream shes talking about comes from up here theres an empty lot with a big ravine. It comes through here works itself from the back and shes here. Two houses above theres a Japanese family with a long concrete driveway and this water comes right through and gushes as a river down his driveway to the street. Ive seen it. Okay. March of a year and a half ago, the water was so bad if your car wasnt part submarine you werent going to get out. I got a Texas Cadillac, an F250 Ford turbo diesel great truck. I get through no problem. Mr. Matsumotos wife works for Parker Ranch, she couldnt go to work. Other cars got stalled nobody paid for their repair bill. Water goes all the way down. The County, now I went there Monday at the base yard to ask a question. Not to complain, I dont like complaining, we all need to work together. I said has any work been done since the big rain she goes no, nothing. All this is, from this subdivision on is a slanted incline along the highway which goes all the way down to that culvert and under the highway and keeps going and keeps going until it goes to Lake Waimea. From this side of our subdivision, theyre on their own. This rain was so bad; the water was so up here on both sides of the road all you had was a piece of black top with a white line. Thats how bad the water was. Now Im not against the Inabas. I want to see it there; I dont EXHIBIT F 12