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the adjoining lots, with 10,000-square foot so on. As I said, there’s no 10,000-square foot lots anywhere along Huallai Road. So this is spot zoning. If I have to, I’ll answer any questions. I also sent two letters. I’m informed that the set 1 is not received or not in the record, but it’s attached to written testimony. And I would ask you to read the second letter. It’s response to Mr. Lim’s response to my letter, and it shows that Mr. Lim is making some valuable admissions in his response to my letter, which corroborates some of our positions. Thank you. HOUSEL: Thank you, Mr. Van Pernis. I’d like to ask for a short recess. The hotel is going to open up these doors. It’s going to be a little noisy, so we’re going to take a five-minute recess, so they can open those doors. And hopefully we have room for everybody that’s standing to please sit down. VAN PERNIS: Perhaps my second letter could be reviewed during that time. HOUSEL: Actually, we’re going to take a break because there’s been a lot of correspondence that the Commissioners just received this morning, and so after the public testimony we will take a break to review all that. We will do that. Thank you. RECESSED The Chair called a recess at 10:02 a.m. RECONVENED The meeting reconvened at 10:22 a.m. HOUSEL: Will the Leeward Planning Commission come back to order. Sorry about the delay but, wow, we’ve got a big crowd here, so I’m glad we -. Still don’t have enough seats, but we’ll try to keep moving here and keep, hopefully not be too long. Sorry about the delay. Mr. Van Pernis, have you concluded your testimony? Would you like any more -? VAN PERNIS: I would just like to say one more thing: Perhaps if the applicants, the applicant’s attorney and the Planning Director lived in Kona, they would realize the damage that this high density is going to be doing in this area, and the traffic on Huallai, the problems that it would create. Any traffic study that refers just to Kuakini, and not to substandard Huallai, is not valid. HOUSEL: Thank you, sir. Mr. Cooperson, would you like to state your name and address, please? COOPERSON: My name is Joel Cooperson. I live at 75-407 Puapua‘anui Street and that’s Heights at Huallai. I’m the president of Heights at Huallai, the Association. I’m a 41-year resident of Kona. My wife and I have taught in Kona in the public schools for a total of 71 years. We feel we are members of the community. I wanted to discuss how appalled I am that the developer who owns about 30 acres -. And this is for the Huallai Partnership; it would be Items 1 and 2. And I don’t know if you can see, this is all Huallai Road right here and they have all this frontage here and over here and that continues on, yet they’re planning to come through here and down below; so in other words they are planning on doing their development without paying for any infrastructure whatsoever. With our subdivision, we’ve got 27 lots, we are a small subdivision, RS-20, and we’ve channelized Huallai Road, we paid for the improvements along with our neighbor – Lot 22 has joined us and paid for the 7 EXHIBIT B