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So the proper planning of setbacks now and taking notice of where the shoreline will be in a hundred years will benefit future homeowners and golfers be property loss from storm waves and it will preserve the recreati Thank you. SPRINGER:Thank you, Mr. Erway. Commissioners, any questions or comments? Thank you. Mr. Rothestein? ROTHSTEIN:Aloha, members of the Planning Commission. My name is Rothstein and IÓm here representing PASH; and IÓve been involved with Kohanaiki for 13 or 14 years, going way back to the first time that it tried to be developed. And because the developer was outrageous, it got stopped by public s lawsuits. I come here tonight not in opposition at all to this project. We support it. We come here tonight, is to favor environmentally stringent conditions, most environmentally stringent conditions for the shores of Kohanaiki. We had been in e-mail, and phone with Dave Eadie and others in the development company and we had been discussing the golf course issue since months ago, since September and before. And weÓve narrowed our issues down to just one. You know, itÓs whether this golf course should be built to the Audubon Gold standard or the Audubon Silver standard; and at present the Silver standard is in the SMA permit. WeÓre trying to upgrade it to the highest standard possible because of the sensitivity at Kohanaiki. The Audubon Silver Signature Program or the Audubon Gold Sustainable Development Program, thatÓs the subject of my testimony. IÓd like to read to you a quote from Ted Robinson. He is the golf course architect who I had spoken to and received letters from, too. He says something here which we totally agree with, weÓre hand-in-hand. He says, ÐI strive to seek the highest level of environmental planning and integration that a modern theory will allow. That is the goal.Ñ And my purpose here tonight is to, testifying to ask you to adhere to that highest standard of golf course design, construction, maintenance, monitoring, oversight and education as possible for the golf course at Kohanaiki. IÓd like to commend the Planning Director for his work in the golf course conditions. He has gone further than any other golf course condition in the past and thatÓs a very good start, although there are some amendments which weÓre going to s whatever is not fully integrated into the conditions, the Audubon Gold will take care of the rest. My outline here, what IÓll be talking about, is the objections that the developer has to the Audubon Gold, theyÓre basically two of them and IÓm going to add the Condition 66, which has to do with the golf course Silver, and then other conditions, other few other conditions related to the golf course, and then a few more other conditions. Forgive the way this is written. It wasnÓt really meant to be read. And it 23