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IWASHITA: I guess, maybe I’m misoriented but looks to me like your house is mauka of the property. LEE: The property under consideration? IWASHITA: Yes. LEE: Yes. IWASHITA: Cause it’s down by Kapiolani. LEE: Yes, somewhat, yes. But you have to understand that we’re talking about very tall buildings, you know. IWASHITA: Okay, thank you. WOODWARD: All right, any further questions? Okay, you may be seated. Thank you very much for your testimony. Mr. Lim, did you want to respond to any of this. LIM: Yes, I do. The statements made by the residents are taken seriously by us. I mean we’re homeowners just like you guys are and when somebody comes into your neighborhood to do something different then you want to make sure it’s being done right. And I don’t think we can agree with them that the Residential/Single-Family nature of the neighborhood will stay forever, for whatever reasons they bought their properties within the last, you know, 3 to 7 years. We know that the General Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide Map for the area has been Medium Density Urban for a significant number of years. The issue raised by Commissioner Iwashita regarding the need for housing is an important issue here on the East Hawaii side; and this particular project will also bring the 20 percent affordable requirement that the Hawaii County Code has for all new developments. With respect to the statement about me asking who was stirring up the neighborhood, I think I asked them something in the neighborhood of who’s leading the neighborhood effort because all of the responses look fairly similar so we thought it was something that was being coordinated. But I apologize for that if that was offensive to anybody. The comments by the two speakers here, anyway, were that the buildings from the project would be oppressive on their particular homes. And I think when you look at the map there you can see our project highlighted in the dark line, and towards the, what I guess would be the south towards Hale Nani you’ll see an area of about, generally I think it’s about 4 acres where there’s a couple of houses on there; but that’s all vacant land. So that it will, so I don’t think that our project would directly impact on Hale Nani Street residents. And I think that’s about all. We just ask for your assistance on this.This is not an off, you know, he does live on the mainland. Mr. Boschetti does live on the mainland but he’s not a new 11 EXHIBIT A