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GONZALEZ: No. PARKER: Parker, Parker, 76 -. HOUSEL: Yeah, if you could give us your address again so we have a record of it. Thank you. PARKER: My address is 76-6220 Mikilana Street, Kailua-Kona. HOUSEL: Thank you very much. Okay, we have one more person who would like to speak. Is Judy Volquardsen, here? All right. Thank you. Okay, yeah, please use the microphone and raise your right hand. And would you like to give testimony today also? ROY: Yes. HOUSEL: Okay, please use the microphone and raise your right hand. Do you swear to tell the truth on this matter now before the Leeward Planning Commission today? TESTIFIERS: I do. HOUSEL: Thank you. Okay, if you’d like to proceed with your name and address. VOLQUARDSEN: My name is Judy Volquardsen. I live at 76-6269 Plumeria Road here in Kailua. And I’m concerned about several things. I can’t address the cultural because,as the lady said yesterday, I’m an invasive species. But I am concerned about some of the public safety issues with this structure. I’m concerned about people, again, being able to get out on Ali‘i Drive in case of some kind of problem. Like, I know people who live on, lived on Plumeria Road who had to move because they could not get out of their driveway when the traffic was heavy. And I could see this being, Ali‘i Drive is getting like that now where to get out is really difficult. I’m also concerned, I think that coral reefs and natural vegetation help a lot with mitigating storms, tsunamis, hurricanes. And we live in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and that is going to happen. Hilo learned - they had two bad tsunamis and structures were gone, and so then they made a park out of that area that used to have big structures. I know of one condo that’s down, not very far from this where the structure is going to be put, where the second story they had to take out the lanai because rocks the size of like suit cases were getting thrown up onto the lanai when we had the big surf or storm surge. I hate to see like a 4-story building on Ali‘i Drive. It’s just, there’s plenty of room mauka, there’s plenty of room to put these kind of, you know, buildings in mauka. You know, the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the places where they had lots of coral reef, where they had lots of natural vegetation, didn’t have that kind of damage where structures had been put in, where it’s just asphalt and cement to mitigate the weather that we have here. So that is my main concern. HOUSEL: Thank you very much for your testimony. Ms. Roy, would you like to, please state your name and address, please. ROY: Thank you. Mikahala Roy, PO Box 596, Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i. I’m kahu of Ahu‘ena Heiau and I’m a member of Ka Ohana O Kaluaokalani. I’m also vested as a witness to Mr. Olson’s case; but I was told that this will not be proceeded upon today. So I will make testimony today, use of the three minutes that we’re given, and state that we absolutely -. I’m thankful for Aunty Iwalani 17 EXHIBIT E