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want to see a hundred homes. The County is not checking up on it. I dont know what it is but I tell you one thing. If these problems arent taken care of, this ladys problem isnt taken care of, this subdivision isnt done right, theres going to be more problems. And I want to see them build it. Now as far as access. Now they have the right to have their own subdivision if you put it that way by using our infrastructure, which is 20 years old. Weve already got separations in the street. Weve got some cracks, weve had some patches and most of all its old. The infrastructure is old. The lady was right. The drains cant take a heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy downpour. It pours in the street and we mean pours in the street. It goes along the street sides. Now, if they had a road which connected from the 2 cul-de-sacs straight across and came down wed have access for emergency vehicles instead of being-. All these people being jammed into 2 streets. The traffic is so bad on this highway now if you take your kids to school theres a backup of cars trying to get out. When I first moved in here you might see 4, you call it a traffic jam. Its getting worse and worse and worse and worse. Weve got 148 lots, 25 are left vacant minus these here. Before you know it this ones filled up,thisdrainagecanalisuseless.Thedrywellsareuseless.Sowhatareweheadinginfora problem. See Im here to talk about the future. Im a licensed landscaper, C27 number 26141 State of Hawaii. Ive had 15 years yard service business. I know, Ive lived here, Ive worked these yards. Ive seen it rain. Ive seen it rain. Ive had one summer 4 months of wet weather. I mean the ground was squish, squish. My lawnmowers got stuck I had to get a 4 wheel drive and pull it out. It drove me nuts. And then you talk about rain sometimes my wood stove burns 9 days, 10 days straight. If youre going to do this you gotta think smart. You cant think cheap. The other way is they build their own road okay. They do it correctly, in the future you want to sub-divide, no problem. You got your own road, your own fire hydrants and your own lights. Thats an option for them. If they do this and nobody takes care of this problem down here and the existing drainage areas well all have problems here. If theres an emergency, theres an earthquake or theres a fire, youve got, how about 350 cars all together. You got 150 something homes once these are all sold. Kids, wives and husbands trying to get out think about it. See when the Mormons built Salt Lake City they put their Conestoga wagons in a big circle. This is a true story. They went all the way across to the west and they said okay, put all these wagons in a circle. And they made this circle and they went from diameter to diameter and said thats how wide our streets are going to be. And if youve been to downtown Salt Lake City and I have it is big as a football field. If we dont start thinking now theyre going to suffer, were going to suffer. The County doesnt get their act together everybodys going to suffer. Lets do it smartly. I want them to build this place. I want to see 5-acre lots. I dont want to see another massive subdivision, we dont need that. Thats my point of view. And if you got any questions hit me with it cause Im waiting for that swimming pool. SPRINGER:Commissioners any questions for Mr. Lasiter? Thank you Mr. Lasiter. Mr. Yuen I dont have a question for Mr. Lasiter but one for you peaked by his comments. Is there anything that this body can do to encourage our fellow County agencies to maintain the existing dry wells and drainage ditches. YUEN:You know what I suggest is that we send a copy of the transcript of his portion of the testimony to the Department of Public Works. I think he was pretty clear. And, you leaving those maps with us? EXHIBIT F 13