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rezoned to Ag-3, and 3 acre lots were then created. If I could get the slide up showing the State Land Use boundaries -. If you note the purple areas, that’s State Land Use Urban. There was a reference to Urban sprawl. And I’d like to point out that the area in question sits between two Urban designated areas; and I would characterize it more as an in-filling of Urban rather than, you know, sprawling out, because the boundary for Urban has extended beyond this particular property in terms of its relationship to the center of town. And, you know, I think any time an area is in transition there will be impacts felt, particularly to, you know, those families that may not be ready for the type of change that is coming. But the point is, is that, you know, at some point in time these changes are likely to occur. You know, the testimony provided has indicated that they have already experienced increased traffic and increased number of people that are coming to the area based on other uses that have already been established in the Panaewa community; and I think that in the future that is like, you know, more than likely to increase. So whether it is this applicant or other property owners in the area I think that these types of changes will be occurring. WATANABE: Okay. Mr. Nishimura, though, you know, they did discuss trees. And I forgot what the specific name of species it was, but apparently those trees are volunteer trees that have taken root on Mr. Sonomura’s property. And I’m thinking that because we have Conditions D and E now added to that, and not so much that this applies in that manner, you would probably want to take out those trees anyway if you develop that. Because you certainly, if you have half acre lots, let’s say, you wouldn’t want to have a situation where Mr. Branco’s cattle may be running into one of your subdivided lots and certainly you wouldn’t want to contribute to that probability by having the trees so close to his fences, yeah? Is that reasonable? NISHIMURA: I believe so, yes. WATANABE: And would you concur also that property basically was all consisted of fill so it’s pretty stony? NISHIMURA: It appears that way. WATANABE: Thank you. Do we have any -? Yes, Mr. Domingo. DOMINGO: Yeah. Were you alluding to the fact that the developer will cut the trees? WATANABE: Right. I think it’s logical that the developer would cut the trees to prevent, you know, an occurrence of fence breaking during high winds. DOMINGO: Well, Mr. Chairman, that seems to have been one of the major concerns about the trees often falling and breaking the fence and they have to repair it and the animals, you know, getting loose. So having the developer cut the trees is I think the appropriate -. WATANABE: Well, that’s it, I don’t think it needs to be a condition though because I think it stands to reason that he’s going to develop it that way. It just makes good sense for him to do that to -. EXHIBIT A 13