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zones or green zones or parks, and the implication that somehow it'll all work out, that is not being a good corporate citizen, and it surely doesn't reflect the spirit of aloha that we have all come to enjoy and is a privilege to have lived here. We've raise our children here, been here over a decade, you know, this is why we love to live here. And this kind of attitude by corporations and by developers that come in is not the spirit of aloha towards these communities. And ladies and gentlemen, you are our last line of defense against these hazards that have impact upon our community. Others have addressed it in a very practical, pragmatic view. I'm looking at this and presenting to you the emotional side of it. Trucks running -, Commissioner Graham asked what's the traffic like? It's horrible. You have to be really careful when you back out of your driveway. You have to be very careful that there's not a multiple ton truck full of gravel pulling up your steep grade of your -, up past your house every morning. It starts early in the morning and it runs all day long. This is not a good -, going to be a good thing for this community, and unless the infrastructure's put in to support it, my recommendation is that the infra -, the re-permitting be denied, the rezoning be denied and that it be conditional that it would be given at such point at which there is sufficient infrastructure to support the growth of this community in a way that is reasonable and it adds to the quality of life rather than detracts from it. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. SPRINGER:Thank you. Commissioners, any questions or comments for the testifier? Thank you. Ma'am? R. DARNALL:My name is Ruby Darnall. I live at 75-370 Aloha Kona Drive. And even though we've been here for over 13-14 years, we've lived on Aloha Kona Drive for over six years. And to go with what Graham was saying, what is the quality of life there, when we first moved in over six years ago, it was a very quiet community and very safe on the roads and on the streets. Now we all know that Nani Kailua is supposed to be the main road up, but in reality, there's a -, Aloha Kona is extremely heavily trafficked because people don't want to stop at that stop sign. And I'm glad -, I mean she wanted to mention no one said anything about the stop sign. I understand why they had to put it in. Aloha Kona was a major thoroughfare that everybody drived as fast as they could possibly get from the bottom of the hill to the top of the hill, and it was extremely dangerous for the children getting on and off the bus, wanting to even walk across the street, or pets that happened to be in the neighborhood that might get out accidentally. And so they needed to put a stop sign there. Okay. But now people don't want to stop there, so what do they do? And major construction trucks do not use Nani Kailua, they use Aloha Kona. Aloha Kona is being completely tore up because of the trucks going up and down it, and nobody's repaving it. Nobody's coming and saying, oh, gee, we tore up your road building our project but, you know, too bad your road's tore up. I don't see them coming and resurfacing when they finish with the road. And I don't think that the County can afford to resurface it every single solitary time a developer goes in and there and tears it up. That's an unreasonable request of the County. 29