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<br />GOODENOW: No, but they can, about the old times. We have the neighbor who lives, who is in
<br />support, so -. And Mrs. Towata Grand’s husband -.
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<br />GIFFIN: If they would like to testify, they can sign up with the staff. And this person has signed
<br />up, and so it is my responsibility to call him up. Mr. – and you two may either sit there or you may
<br />go back to your seats, because we have enough room – and correct me if I’m wrong about the
<br />pronunciation, Bhagavan.
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<br />BURITZ: Very close.
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<br />GIFFIN: Okay. Buritz?
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<br />BURITZ: Yes.
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<br />GIFFIN: Okay. Will you please raise your right hand? And there is a microphone, I think, there.
<br />Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Leeward Hawai‘i County
<br />Planning Commission?
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<br />BURITZ: I swear.
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<br />GIFFIN: Please state your name.
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<br />BURITZ: Bhagavan Samson Buritz.
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<br />GIFFIN: Okay, thank you. You may sit down.
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<br />BURITZ: Yes, I have a difficult name, and people ask for something shorter, so I abbreviate it to B,
<br />so, makes it easier for people. I’m kind of behind the eight ball on this, because when I got the
<br />notice for the rezoning – I knew Millie from when we were dealing with a cell phone tower issue,
<br />and I got to know the whole neighborhood at that time, and I knew her and I knew that she was a
<br />kama‘āina person and her family had a lot of history – and so when I saw the rezoning thing, I
<br />didn’t really look at that carefully; I just thought, oh, she’s doing it, I support anything she does –
<br />that’s how I, that’s how I, that was my reaction. Then last week I got some kind of, it was the same
<br />kind of thing that happened to me with the cell phone thing, I got this kind of like, I’ve got to look
<br />at this, I really have to study this. So I started looking at it, and I saw the, you know, there were
<br />bigger, bigger issues here because we have this so-called private road. People call it all kinds of
<br />different things, Ghost Road, and it’s private, but it’s, who owns it is like up for question. It’s a
<br />complicated issue. And I’ve talked to several people about it. Let me say that I have no expertise
<br />in planning or road design or any these kinds of things – that’s just not my area. And I do own land
<br />at the top of this private road; if you went straight up the private road, I have land up there. So I am
<br />a landowner up there, and I am selling my house in Kainaliu and planning to move up there. And
<br />so when I started to look at this whole thing, I had some different ideas, and then I went around and
<br />talked to all the neighbors that I could contact. I talked to everybody and I came up, and I said,
<br />“You know, we have to get going here, and I, you know, we have to, we need to have a road
<br />association, we need to kind of get a little more organized,” because these people go and help and
<br />kōkua fixing the road, but we have this twelve-foot road and it’s -. And these twelve-foot roads
<br />were designed, I guess, for horse wagons back in about 1914, I guess, through the court system.
<br />And so you can’t make a turn on a twelve-foot road in a car. It’s just impossible. In fact, when an
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