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GONZALEZ: This is one of those 52-letter -. Kupuna Reeves? Hannah? Kupuna Hannah Reeves, Kalani Nakoa, Diane Ellis, Douglas Drake and Janet Topor-Bixler – sorry if I mutilated that. HOUSEL: Topor-Bixler, I hope we got it right there. PUBLIC: Kalani Nakoa had to leave. HOUSEL: Okay. So we’ll –what’s the next one there? GONZALEZ: Cheryl Kornberg? HOUSEL: Here she is. Well, I guess we’ll proceed. Could you please pick up a microphone? Microphone, yeah. And raise your right hand. Do you swear to tell the truth now before the Planning Commission on this matter today? TESTIFIERS: Yes, I do. HOUSEL: Thank you. Okay, I guess we’ll start with you on the left. Would you state your name and address, please? TOPOR-BIXLER: Janet Topor-Bixler, 77-6452 Ali‘i Drive. HOUSEL: Okay. Would you like to present? TOPOR-BIXLER: Yes. I do agree with the significance, the historical significance and maintaining it, and then maintaining the integrity of the entire bay. There are not many areas along Ali‘i Drive where people can go, where the public can go. There are very few areas that have not been touched. And this is one of the prime ones. And to take it and to put up a building -. 77-6452 Ali‘i Drive is also known as Magic Sands, Kona Magic Sands, and at high tide, high surf – we are set back 37 feet –the water comes over and the water comes under the building, and I have great reserves for whether they are going to be planning subterranean parking and such. I also have problem with 16 condos, meaning a minimum of 16 vehicles exiting out onto Ali‘i Drive during times of emergency. You know, we saw with Katrina when they had large highways to exit people that there was no place for them to go. And I’m in the middle of two exit routes. And adding more vehicles that will exit onto it -. If they were people that were from mauka that could exit mauka and never, ever come onto Ali‘i Drive unless they come some other route, it would be different. I want to keep the place the way it is.I want to save it for the children. I don’t want it developed. I don’t want it to look, as the woman said, like O‘ahu. I want it to be Hawai‘i. Thank you very much for your time. HOUSEL: Thank you. Please state your name and address, please. REEVES: I’m Kupuna Hannah Wahinemaikai o Kaahumanu Keliiulananiole o Kalama (Kane) Reeves, in behalf of my ‘ohana, which is the Kanuha. They are the direct descendants of . I just want to explain to all of you this is, from the mountain to the sea, and 300 miles out and right around the island, on every island, we are connected. I want to tell you that this is the most sacred place in Kona. This is the very, very strong place that has eight heiaus; on the top and on the bottom, there are several of them. It’s been many years that we were, been put away from our ancestors’ land. We are the direct living 5 EXHIBIT D