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and couldn’t express what I felt to them, you got to be the people to hear it. So I want to apologize, if I was in any way offensive to you. I am so against this project, so very against it. This is such a place of beauty as you, anyone here that has driven by it knows. You’ve seen it, yeah? Is there anyone here who hasn’t seen it sitting here before me? Okay, you don’t have to respond, I guess. Anyway, it’s too precious to waste. This is, I’m not here for anything selfish. I don’t own any land here in Hawai‘i, I don’t have any children here in Hawai‘i. I’m here to speak for future generations, for conservation of the planet. I’m old, I’ll be dead soon – so nothing in my pocket. It’s just my heart that brings me here, because this place is too beautiful not to love. So I come to share my love of the land. I thank you so much for listening. Thank you for your time. Mahalo. HOUSEL: Thank you for your testimony. RUDOLPH: Aloha. Thank you for allowing me to add on to my testimony from yesterday. I just wanted to point out even in a down economy -. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but on Ali‘i Drive since they’ve opened the Road, traffic is backed up past Lunapule Road at least twice a day from the new traffic coming from the south on Ali‘i Drive, when the road is open. And 16 more cars may not seem like a lot, but you have to consider right now it’s backed up past Lunapule Road. When the economy gets better, that backup is going to go further south to go through town. And I think there’s so little community benefit from this project. For instance, it can be up to $10,000 a month rent; and this is not something that the community can afford. And I just think the benefits are so little for what we’re going to lose. Please don’t give them a variance for this, for the setback, please. Thank you. HOUSEL: Shannon, could I ask you to state your name again for the record. HOUSEL: Thank you. VILLEGAS: Aloha, my name is Rebecca Villegas and I live at 77-6639 Walua Road, Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i. I’m currently the president of the Kohanaiki ‘Ohana and have the honor of working with that organization and the consortium of groups working together to create a park there. I’m here to speak today on three points. One from a scientific standpoint, it seems foolish to me to grant a variance on a piece of property to minimize shoreline setback when it has been scientifically and globally proven that sea level rise, it’s not about if it’s going to happen, it’s when it’s going to happen. And this piece of property will be directly affected. And who, and when and how, will be held financially responsible for the people that could eventually live in those properties. We’re already facing extremely high rates of insurance for homes on the water. And to make any sort of variances that allow for another piece of property to be compromised in this capacity for a development of this nature only exposes more humans to more risk; and the cycle continues. On a second note, I’m thankful, so very grateful that the State Land Use Commission recently upheld the Conservation zoning at ‘O‘oma. And the State Land Use Commission looked at the issues on our coastline and took into consideration the same issues that are being expressed today, that this is not the time and this is not the place, and that was not the piece of property, nor is this one, to make any concessions for variances. The third thing is whoever the gentleman is or the woman or the people that purchased this piece of property, I can’t feel sorry for them. They went in and did it with a pure and simple opportunity to 9 EXHIBIT E