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SPRINGER:Thank you. Commissioners, are there any questions of the testifier? I have a question of the Director given the testifier's recommendation for the RS-20 designation. Can you make a comment to that? YUEN:They say there are two things that people in America hate about the way land use planning is done or the way development occurs, one is sprawl and the other is density. If you're going to have this become a residential area, you -, the purpose of making residential areas is to put people, is to get people to live in them. You make all residential areas 20,000 square feet lots, they're considerably more expensive, for one thing, both because of the land area that's taken up and secondly because you have, you -, essentially, you're putting the same amount of roadway in and water lines in but only serving half as many pieces of property. SPRINGER:Thank you, Director Yuen. Commissioners, any questions or comments? Okay. Next, please, your name and address and then your testimony into the microphone. THROPP:Thank you. My name is Alex Thropp. My address is 75-5792 Lopeka Place, and that's the cul-de-sac at the top of Kona Heights, the last one. And is that all I'm supposed to say to check in? What was the other -? SPRINGER:Yes, and then -. THROPP:My address and my name, right? SPRINGER:Yes, and then speak into the microphone. THROPP:Right. I am here today to object to this plan. I think whoever drew this out is only interested in packing and cramming as many houses into 14 acres that could possibly be. And before -, and not to mention the two neighbors on my right, I would first of all like to go on record saying I agree with everything they've said so far and concur and rather to be repetitive, I am agreeing with all their comments about the incremental zoning, the piecemeal zoning of this swatch of land that goes up next to ours. And I'd like to furthermore say that I'm not against growth, but I think this design and this project plan that this map here, whoever drew this, I'd like to ask what these two tee-shaped roads are inside the circle, if someone could explain what that, what those are. May I point to them? SPRINGER:Jeff, are you able to identify? THROPP:Right. Right. There's one up to the left there. To me, I thought they were just side streets, but I'm not sure. If you can see to the right there, Lopeka Place is the last cul-de-sac there, the round one, exactly, and it's a nice flowing circle. And this thing seems to be a very skinny tee, and there's two of them inside this with all these houses packed in there. What are those exactly? 12