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SPRINGER:Thank you for your testimony, Ms. Green. Are you aware of the <br />rights and responsibilities that go along with your request for Standing in a Contested <br />Case Hearing? <br />GREEN:I believe I am. And if we were to have a contested case hearing, I <br />would request that I be allowed to bring my attorney; and he is not present today. <br />SPRINGER:So you€ve heard the request by the Applicant€s representative that <br />this matter be continued should the contested case hearing be approved, and would <br />concur? <br />GREEN:Yes. <br />SPRINGER:Thank you. <br />FUJIKAWA:Any other questions, Commissioners, with Cheryl? Graham? <br />GRAHAM:Cheryl, I didn€t really have so much a question of you. But just <br />whenyouspokeandyouwerespeakingof,youknow,ourvotetodaybeingimportant <br />and all, I just want to just to put forth my sense, kind of in line with what Commissioner <br />Springer said and what Mr. Lim said before about how things are likely to progress, just <br />so that the rest of you who talk today can understand the situation as I do. And I will <br />stand corrected if I hear otherwise. So we will hear both you and Mr. Washburn, and <br />then we will make a decision on whether we will go ahead with you as Intervenors in a <br />Contested Case Hearing, and that would take place at a further date, not today. And that <br />would either take place where there€ll be one person hired by the County to conduct that <br />hearing or else it would take place with us as a Commission altogether conducting the <br />hearing. And I, also, believe that the other folks that are here today will get a chance to <br />testify today regardless of whether we have that Contested Case Hearing or not. So, I just <br />want to put all that out so that you all understand the procedure we€re looking at. <br />GREEN:Thank you. <br />GRAHAM:Thank you. <br />FUJIKAWA:Go ahead, Gary. <br />WASHBURN:Yes. I€ve lived in the area for 14 years, and I actually represent my <br />family who bought the land. And we followed all the guidelines, all the rules regarding <br />building our house and building our structure. We moved here and picked that piece of <br />property for serenity, for privacy, for the benefits of rural living, so that we could grow <br />our garden, and we could grow our indigenous plants and refurbish the area. And that <br />was my whole concept in terms of wanting to live there. And what I€ve seen is <br />somebody else can move into the same area and not follow those guidelines, and I don€t <br />think that that is fair. I don€t think that that is what the law is for. If we don€t follow the <br />laws, if we don€t enforce the laws, as a schoolteacher I feel like what I try to teach in <br />8 <br /> <br />