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WOODWARD: Your name, yes, sir. AZEVEDO: Buddy Azevedo. WOODWARD: Okay. And your address, address? AZEVEDO: It’s 2916A Ainaola. WOODWARD: Okay. Thank you. Now you may continue. AZEVEDO: That’s all you want to know? WOODWARD: That’s all I want to know. AZEVEDO: Well, I’m here to testify in favor of the subdivision. My reason for that is three acres is not affordable to the ordinary people already, for one. For two, nobody farms down there. The only way you can do a three-acre farming is make a piggery and you’ll get the whole people against you. Okay, as far as I’m concerned, when you go down to half an acre you still got a lot of elbow room, you still can do your own home farming. You know, and it’s not, no money affecting me, no nothing. I’m just talking about affordable. And I’m not doing this as a favor for nobody. I’m just doing this out of my own, my own intention. Then you take 3-acres now. How many people can afford that? If they break them down into six half acre lots, I mean, you got six different guys that got a chance to do it and the price is within range. And, again, you know, farming on three acres in Panaewa, you got nothing but rock. Hawaiian Homes is dropping their zoning down which was ten before. They’re bringing them right down. And eventually it’s going to be an acre because nobody can make a go farming down there. If this was Waimea you can truck farm on three acres, oh, you’re a multi-millionaire. But you’ve got no dirt, you know. So my reason for in favor of this subdivision is to make it where as I say .5 acre. You still got elbow room, you still can do little farming on your place. You want to raise couple of animals you can do it. Three acres you can do the same thing. But who can afford three acres? As far as I’m concerned population increases every day, land don’t. So eventually everything is going to be, you know -. Where you can, make it so everybody can afford. That’s my primary reason. Okay, that’s all I’ve got to say. WOODWARD: Thank you, sir. Any questions? ALAMEDA: Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Azevedo, what about one acre? AZEVEDO: What’s that? ALAMEDA: What about one acre? What’s your thoughts on having it instead of .5 acre how about one acre? AZAEVEDO: As far as I’m concerned half acre and one acre zoning is just about same, the only difference is the square feet. One acre is 43,560. You know half acre is about 22,000. So what you can do on half you can do on one.But I’m looking at the money thing, the affordable part. You buy one acre, say, $100,000, you can buy half acre for $50,000 or $60,000. 9