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microphone and hold it up, and raise your right hand, please. Do you swear to tell the truth on this matter now before the Planning Commission today? TESTIFIERS: I do. HOUSEL: Thank you. I guess we’ll start with -. KUALII: Ladies first. HOUSEL: Okay, start with the ladies. Go ahead. CORCORAN: Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is Diane. I live here in Kona. And I’ve looked at the plan for this new building, and it’s an eyesore; it will really stand out against all those blues and greens and the dark background – this big one white thing sticking up like a digit saying what to who. It’s not attractive. I think what we have that to offer the world here in Hawai‘i is beauty, what we can teach the world is respect for the land. I think it’s becoming very, very important that on a global and local level, we respect the land itself. I hate to see another reef desecrated. How can they build that close to the ocean and not ruin the reef? No one else has been able to. Do we value the reef? Do we value the land? Or do we value only the profit this one person is going to make and then take the damn money to California anyway. That’s all I have to say. Thank you for listening. Thank you. KAVALIAUSKAS: Ursula Kavaliauskas, 78- this Commission to say no. We need to hold the line at Lyman’s. We don’t need to give these setbacks, these additional, another 20 feet of setbacks. We don’t need to allow another story. We don’t need to give special permission to this developer for anything. He has the right to develop, but according to the rules that are in place right now. Just say no. I don’t think you need to do anything else. These people have given you plenty of reasons, great reasons. Now, the people that are here right now are a fraction of the people that were here this morning. The people that can’t be here now are the ones that had to go back to work. I think out of respect for those people, it would have been nice to change your agenda this morning at the point in time that this item was noticed. It is not against the rules to do that. Anyone as a commissioner has the ability to speak up and, according to Robert’s Rules of Order, request that the Commission change the order of the agenda to accommodate this crowd. I think that would have been respectful of the people here. And I ask that in future that you consider respecting us in order to get respect back. Thank you very much. HOUSEL: Thank you for your testimony. KUALI‘I: Aloha mai ‘O Kaleo Kuali‘i ko‘u inoa, ‘ehiku ‘ehiku - ‘eono ‘elima ‘ekolu . Before I get started, I’d like to touch on several things that came up before. One is the fact that the scheduling for the testimony -. There’s been a lot of people that are not here and will not be here to speak because of that scheduling. The fact that we had to -. And I understand at times that that happens. Is there a way for them to still have the opportunity to speak on behalf of this matter? I guess the question goes to the Chair, or -? HOUSEL: We will provide public testimony opportunity tomorrow. The agreement is, just so you can let people know, that we are going to take evidentiary hearing in the morning and the public testimony will follow that – I don’t know exact time, though. 7 EXHIBIT D