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moved to Hawi, we feel in love with the climate, the ocean. We wanted to build our home there and so we proceeded to buy a piece of property; and because it was so big, there wasn’t a smaller chunk, we had to subdivide. So it took us about four years to get subdivision approval. And then finally we were able to begin building our home. As part of the subdivision requirements we, of course, had to comply with the Planning Director’s request for public access that was included in our subdivision plan. However, we had a run-in with our neighbor, which was a legal dispute, originally agreeing to give her land as part of the access along with three other lots that were going to be affected with the access. She changed her mind and had a legal run-in with us, which we had been in dispute with her for a couple of years. They kind of backed off. Now it looks like we’re trying, again, to resolve this. Anyway, the main thing that I want to say is that we’re doing everything we can. The first time we tried to do the access, you know, it didn’t work out. So then we, in order to comply with Mr. Yuen and so forth, we went ahead and started to do another access on another area of the same gulch to go down into the beach. We didn’t realize we needed to get more permits to do that; and so we proceeded to go ahead and go down and do that. Like Ahmad said it was a comedy of errors between, you know, the complaining neighbors and so forth. And we are going out of our way to see what we can do in terms of, we’d come up with the old access, it doesn’t seem to be a safe. Now we come up with a new access plan as revised that we’ve agreed with that seems to be even better. It will bring it down our personal, near our personal driveway, closer to our home in the drive that we used to take down, which we’re still taking down to the beach area. So it’s a lot safer. We go down there often ourselves to take walks and so forth. So what we were planning to do is utilize that new area for the access. In addition to that, I know that the Planning Director also wanted a lateral access along the cliff line, so we are also going to give that as part of our way to resolve this situation. In this way, we had two ways of access through our property -. And hopefully everybody will be happy and we will be happy, and we will get this thing done. And I do want to appreciate Mr. Yuen all that you’ve done to work with us. I feel very confident we’re getting there and we’re going to bring closure to this soon. Hopefully all the members here will also consider our situation and we will get this thing in a good standing with everyone. We want to be the good neighbors with everyone and with the community. We want to do the best we can. So just to get an idea of where we are -. LIM: As a side note, I spoke with Mr. Herman Fernandez who was one of the people that came at the last hearing, made a presentation, a very strong presentation. He’s the neighbor across the Waipielu Gulch. And I explained to him the general parameters of the settlement agreement that we’re working on with Mr. Yuen; and I don’t know if he spoke after the hearing, but he seemed to be okay with that. So we’ll be keeping him in the loop also at the same time. WOODWARD: Do any of the Commissioners have questions for Mr. Lim or his clients? ALAMEDA: Mr. Chair? WOODWARD: Yes, sir. ALAMEDA: Thank you. Mr. Lim, you mentioned that the neighborhood kind of sounded like they were okay with the proposed plan or kind-of, sort-of? EXHIBIT C 4