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application for a State Land Use boundary amendment and a change of zone from Ag-5 to Single- <br />Family Residential. <br />We are going to have the staff presentation after the public testimony. So when I call you name, <br />please come forward and have a seat at the table. The first four will be, since we have four chairs, <br />Cindy Coats, Lauren Burgett, and Cindy Coats is speaking – here comes Commissioner Bowman – <br />George Error and Mark Van Pernis. I guess we have one more chair. Could Joel Cooperson please <br />come forward? Could I ask you to use the microphone? And please raise your right hand. Do you <br />swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Hawai‘i County Planning <br />Commission? <br />TESTIFIERS: I do. Yes. <br />HOUSEL: Thank you. I guess starting with, on the right -. <br />COATS: I’ll be speaking for myself, Cindy Coats, as well as Lauren Burgett. <br />HOUSEL: Okay. Could you give your name and address, please? <br />COATS: Cindy Coats -. <br />HOUSEL: Please use the microphone. <br />COATS: Cindy Coats, 75-631 Hua Ai Street, Kailua-Kona, 96740. <br />HOUSEL: Thank you. Which agenda item are you testifying on? <br />COATS: Huallai Partners of Kona, the first item on the agenda. <br />HOUSEL: Okay, please do. <br />COATS: Hello, my name is Cindy Coats. As a long time resident of Kailua-Kona and a <br />homeowner in the Kona Orchards subdivision, I have seen many changes over the years, some good <br />some bad, and more often than not these changes are accompanied by “How did that happen?” This <br />Commission is where that happens. This is where the fate of Kailua-Kona is decided, the direction <br />it will take, what will happen to our open spaces, and how Kona will work for future generations. <br />My biggest problem with the proposed rezoning of the parcels in question is simply why? Why <br />would we take a precious parcel of Ag land, located in what many books on Hawai‘i consider to be <br />the most scenic drive in West Hawai‘i, rezone it to a dense urban subdivision? There must have <br />been a compelling reason it was zoned Ag in the first place. And as long as there are 25,000-plus <br />approved lots sitting empty, that haven’t been developed, not to mention the hundreds and hundreds <br />of homes on the market, as well as proposed subdivisions of at least a thousand -. (The lights went <br />out.) <br />HOUSEL: Here we are. Sorry about that. <br />2 <br />EXHIBIT B <br /> <br />