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MR. MORRIS: Good afternoon, and thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to say a <br />few words to you and I'm going to keep this really quite short. I live down in Waikoloa Village <br />and I am very concerned about some of the plans that want to split our community in half. I <br />cannot support that. We want to have a homogeneous group that reports only to one council <br />member. Looking at the various maps, Plan _40 basically preserves the existing South Kohala <br />area. This is the one I'm in favor of, and I hope that you will support that. Thank you. <br />CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you. Our next testifier is Lonnie Cole. <br />LONNIE COLE <br />(At this time Lonnie Cole came forward to address members of the Commission.) <br />MR. COLE: Aloha, thank you for spending your Saturday; because it's such an important job <br />and it has to happen every ten years, you're doing a great job. My name is Lonnie Cole, I'm <br />President of the Waikoloa Association and since Pete Hoffman had a meeting, talk story, <br />Thursday evening, my phone has been ringing off the hook and my computer is about ready to <br />catch on fire from emails. By a wide, wide margin Waikoloa Village wants to stay homogeneous <br />and we do not want the village divided and they sent a very strong message. There is about 6,000 <br />of us down there, and about 3,200 homes and condos and we really appreciate your consideration <br />and we're thanking you in advance. Thank you very much. <br />CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you. Our next testifier is Margaret Wille. <br />MARGARET WILLE <br />(At this time Margaret Wille came forward to address members of the Commission.) <br />MS. WILLE: Aloha, and good afternoon, I am Margaret Wille. The difficulty here are those 5% <br />deviations. I struggled with these maps, how do we preserve each of the communities; and it's <br />clearly impossible. I worked on Plan _40 and how does get, at least the northern portion of the <br />island, and still you need to be dealing with Hamakua and Ka` u being the lower populations, how <br />do you deal with them? The issue there really is to go into Hilo and cut into Waimea. Do you <br />incorporate North Kohala? If you start at the river, and don't make Hamakua a portion of urban <br />Hilo, then you come up to Waimea, and where do you draw the line? With Lakeland being such a <br />large population, how do you do that? Then if you put Lakeland in, you're splitting Waikoloa <br />basically. I went and talked to people in Honoka`a, and as I talked to them and some on the <br />eastern portion of Waimea, and one thing that they talked to me about was the water sheds. So I <br />got us some water shed maps, and really, this could be critical over the next ten years. <br />If you look at the districts, it basically runs Hamakua Coast together as one unit, which would be <br />from Lakeland to the river in Hilo, Wailuku River. I stress water and express I prefer the same <br />thing here with Waimea and down to Puako, and Waikoloa, as one water shed in Kawaihae. If <br />you looking at Puako as a small community but it's critical to the bay and protecting the bay, and <br />that's something we have been working on a lot from Kawaihae. What do we do in the critical <br />issues around that. I took Plan _40 and tried to work out some of the issues that Rene had brought <br />up and others in the community and I just want to mention that I submitted some testimony trying <br />0 <br />