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GARCIA-BOWMAN: Aloha, my name is Barbara Garcia-Bowman. My address is 74-5041 Kealapua Street in Kailua. And I am here on behalf of a magazine I publish,KE OLA magazine; it’s the Big Island’s arts and culture magazine. And so as a business owner, I understand the needs of businesses and I understand capitalistic, you know, ideals and the need for development, or the pursuit of development. And I strongly oppose this development. I just feel that we have enough condos. There’s enough vacant condos, enough vacant real estate here in West Hawai‘i, and we don’t need more. And this is so disruptive. As Theresa so beautifully and eloquently stated it, we have enough development here. We don’t need to damage our coastline with more. So I don’t need to add more to that. But I just wanted to say on behalf of business owners here that enough is enough. We really don’t need more. So I really support the opposition to the development. Thank you. HOUSEL: Thank you. Thank you for your testimony. Would you like to proceed? MANN: Aloha. My name is Marya Mann. I’m a writer with Keola and a therapist in Kailua- Kona. Thank you very much for hearing the testimony here and really keeping an open mind about this. Because I do think that the decisions that are made today will affect not only tomorrow ornext week but many generations from now. What can anyone say that hasn’t been said about a 4-story the property developers really want to own some Kona condos, they should check the foreclosure listings, and they will find quite a few. They could easily get 16 seaside units already built for a fraction of the cost. And they would not need to invade the biological marine, social, historical, and cultural resources that are threatened by this project. and –I’m almost learning to pronounce them – which cradle layers of life and identity that make West Hawai‘i unique in all the world. The jaw-is being increasingly veiled by these large private projects that endanger the public coastline, the surf areas, and the sacred sites. Do we want to leave something pristine for our children and grandchildren? Do we want to protect the resources given to us for caretaking, or to squander this irreplaceable inheritance? Do we want our children to learn that previous societies living near the proposed condo site thought it important to create Keolon able to testify with some kind of knowledge about what you’re talking about devaluing here. So d this place for kupuna to share traditions and knowledge, honoring the area’s rose, a place where wisdom has passed for consecutive generations. And I trust that you will refuse this development request, that the wisdom of conservation be passed from us to future generations. As Native Americans say, we have not inherited the earth from our fathers and mothers, we are borrowing it from our children. Let’s consider the needs of seven generations down the road in the future. Do you think they’ll be saying, “Gee, I’m glad those old-timers built another condo complex?” I don’t think so. I think they might be saying, “Wow, they had such foresight. Mahalo nui l HOUSEL: Thank you for your testimony. Would you like to go ahead, please? JAENTSCH: Aloha, my name is Jeremy Ali‘i Jaentsch, 74-5518 Kaiwi Street, Kailua-Kona. And I’d just like to voice my opposition to, and second what everybody said here about, you know, you’ve got a 16 or however many people condo when how many people per day drive through 7 EXHIBIT E