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Sir, please state your name, your residence address and you may begin your testimony. ORTIZ:My name is Peter Ortiz. IÓm from Kalaoa Mauka, Papaikou. I came to this meeting very, initially just out of clear blue sky. And my concern was the actions thatÓs being taken down by the mill for one. IÓve fished all my life, I love to hunt like many other people here. And my main concern about this development down there has a lot to do with the people thatÓs from the area. ThereÓs m family that IÓve talked to that has major concern about the access to the beach for fishing for one. And although you might not see them over here today, a lot of them are at work; and I donÓt think itÓd be a feasible, reason to tell your employer that youÓre going to come to a Planning Commission meeting over some access to the beach. So what IÓm saying is that my concern is with all this development happening down at the beach. And like the young lady said here, you know, this is more catered to a different market of people versus the local people, and not drawing no division there -. But also at the same time, you know, how do you go about rerouting activities of the community people that have been doing it for decades? A lot of people might just look at it as fishing, but for a lot of people fishing is just one option. ThereÓs tremendous reasons why a person would want to go down to the beach, access, especially a place where there arenÓt too much people around, whether itÓd be just to relieve yourself of stress or whatever. But what IÓm saying is when, you know, I live up Kalaoa Mauka; and ever since IÓve been there, IÓve seen gates and fences going up not only on makai side, mauka side as well. It eliminates me from going hunting, as well as m and there has got to be some kind of medium in there, you know. And IÓve heard, you know, different reasons why they want to fence up the area and whatnot, you know. And I donÓt think the burden should be on the public, meaning that if youÓre going to fence off and, you know, eliminate access on the roadways, what are you doing to the people? The people, where do they go? Not all people enjoy going down to town and going down to the mall and finding recreation there. You might think thereÓs only handful of people who go to the beach and want to go to the beach from time-to-tim So what IÓm saying is, itÓs a lot deeper than what you might think; and although the people might not be here representing themselves, thereÓs tremen gated beaches, as well as roadways thatÓs been blocked off and kept from the public; and, you know, I donÓt know the true objective here. You know, like IÓm very alien to a lot of these procedures here. And why I came down here is Òcause IÓm very concerned about this. And I just want to voice my opinion and let this Commission know that IÓm just one person of a whole bunch of people that has tremendous concerns about access to the beach for one; and, basically, thatÓs my, what I came here to ex GALDONES:Thank you, Mr. Ortiz. Appreciate your making the time to be here. Commissioners, any questions of Mr. Ortiz? Commissioner Fujikawa? FUJIKAWA:I have a question of the Director. The testifier stated a concern of access to the beach, but we have been taking care of many of these access situations to 6