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You are probably aware that in the year 2005 there's a major EPA directive nationwide that requires the disconnection of all gang cesspools everywhere in the United States, and there are lots of those on the Big Island. One of the solutions to that, unfortunately, is for people to disconnect major gang cesspools, and you have a lot of those here on the west side and in Kona, and create individual cesspools. Well, I fail to see how that solves the waste problem, but it also creates an opportunity for you to talk about financing new sewer systems. And I think as planning and growth continues in the Kona area, eventually you will get to the point that you will look back and say, gee, we made a mistake. We should have put sewers in back then and we didn't. And I think this is an opportunity on this development and future developments to the north of this to think about that sewer system and use the EPA requirement of 2005 as kind of a catalyst to get that done. Thank you. SPRINGER:Thank you. Commissioners, any questions or comments of the testifier? I have a question, in particular with regard to the testifier's comments. Director Yuen, could you respond to this notion of the County having a bonding program of the area to finance infrastructure development. YUEN:You can do improvement districts. They take a great deal of work to put together and ultimately require the consent of the affected landowners. SPRINGER:Thank you. Other Commissioners, questions or comments? Hearing none, thank you for your time and your comments. And finally, ma'am, could you please give us your name and your address and speak directly into the microphone. GREGORY:My name -, is this on? Yeah, okay. My name is Laurel Gregory, and I live at 75-5850 Lulu Place. Lulu Place is in Kailua View Estates. It is at the top of the subdivision, and I abut the Kamehameha lands that run directly south of Kailua View Estates. Many of my neighbors have spoken eloquently on several of the points I wanted to make. I just have a few extra comments. One Commissioner, Mr. Graham had asked about what it's like to live in the neighborhood. I've lived there for five years. I use Kailua View Estates as my main ingress and egress. I can tell you that the gentleman to my right here who spoke about the fact that these streets, both Aloha Kona and Kailua View were never meant to be large traffic collectors. Both are very steep. Nani -, or excuse me, Aloha Kona does have sidewalks, but it is much steeper than Nani Kailua and frankly if you were going to live in this subdivision, you would probably bypass Aloha Kona, drive directly to Nani Kailua because it's merely one block or, you know, to the south, and go down Kailua View Estates feeder which is Nani Kailua. On the other hand, Nani Kailua isn't quite as steep but it does not have sidewalks and one of the previous speakers mentioned that kids do collect there to be picked up in school buses, etcetera. We've had recurring problems with people speeding on the hill. In fact, finally, a couple months ago, a four-way stop was put in about half way down Nani Kailua, which no one has mentioned yet, which I think is kind of interesting. That does tend to slow traffic 24