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when the Department of Planning was given the application in 1998 by Mr. Vurich that Ms.Goldstein who said, turned the application down, it came before this Commission and the Commission approved it. My suggestion is that that was perhaps an experiment that has failed because as ParadiseParkhasgrown it is becoming one of the nicer, in terms of financial investment in property and homes, neighborhoods in Puna. Puna in case you havent noticed is the fastest growing district in the State of Hawaii. Our fourth district of the state representative seat formerly stretched all the way from Pahoa to beyond Ocean View. It is now only lower Pahoa. It starts at Paradise Park. I give you that reference because that is a measure of the rate of growth. In ten years, thats what happened. Paradise Park is one of the fastest growing districts. And you mustaskyourselves,please, if you would like to have a storage shed capability next door to your residence, because thats what we face in Paradise Park, not a storage shed necessarily but any commercial application that wishes to come in and place its place next door in a residential community. My suggestion to you is that you dont, and you particularly dont, and you would pointquicklyacross the street and say to the Planning Departmentifyoufindaneedforthisthenplaceitwhereyouhaveputthezoningforthatuse. Whenyouchangetoaspecialusepermit,thentheburdenfallsontheCommissionorsomebody to enforce the conditions that might be laid upon it. And thats not happening in our community, its not happening in our County. And my suggestion is that, when Mrs. Black was here earlier today she said people are losing faith in this Commission, the Department, Im saying theyre losing faith in the process because it is not functioning. The County General Plan under which we presently work was written in, I believe 2002 it was first put out. Bobby Jean Leithead-Todd whos down at this table was the committee for planning for the Council Chairman. In my opinion she did extremely good work in having hearings throughout the County for public input on the General Plan. The hearings generated 8 pages of names of testifiers, just their names and organizations, 8 pages. When the present Council this last February decided we had to have it now -. Our Planning Director is in the paper this morning saying that they couldnt refer it back to this Commission because that would take a lot of time. It makes me wonder what was the hurry. Because what was left out was every word of that testimony that was given in every community in the State. And because of that and because of the requirements in State law for what shall be in the County General Plan, Im submitting to you that that General Plan is faulty and conceivably extra legal, in other words, its not a valid document. Because the County Council that Ive talked to had no awareness that those changes were not made before they passed it in February. Now if you can find a Council Member who knew better perhaps it would be worth talking to them. But the fact is that there are no changes in the document that you have before you today as your General Plan. There are no changes that were made as a result of that tons of public testimony. So when you have problems such as Mrs. Black was bringing to you this morning, I suggest to you that those problems are multiplied by the number of communities whose problems were not addressed in your plan. And the time that Mr. Yuen did not want to expend was time that would have been before this Commission to look at the changes that were brought to the government by the public in those hearings, two years of testimony that were discarded. To this date I dont know where they are. ALAMEDA:Is that it? 13EXHIBIT B