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construction, except that you are trying to spin reality, you know, leaving out inconvenient
<br />buildings; you are leaving out inconvenient roads. Now (inaudible) -.
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<br />ARAI: Sir -.
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<br />GIFFIN: Sir, excuse me, you do need to speak into the mike because you are being recorded.
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<br />R. SCHULHERR: Okay, I’m very sorry. So the problem here is that there’s all these roads that are
<br />not seen. I take my life in my hands every time I cross from Waikoloa Vill-, Waikoloa Hills – can
<br />we go back to the, either the master plan or, that’s fine – to the Highlands Center. You go cross that
<br />road, the cars come streaming around Paniolo Avenue and they are on their way. There is no
<br />enforcement happening there. There is a sign that tells you how fast you are going; people really
<br />don’t care. We are going to start putting flags up like we live in Berkeley for the love of God, or we
<br />can just have piles of rocks at each corner so when you want to cross the street, like in Africa or
<br />certain European countries, you pick up the rock and waive at the car so they don’t run you down. I
<br />don’t think that’s a good idea. I don’t think that’s a good way to have our village depicted that it’s a
<br />place that’s not walking friendly, which isn’t somewhat right now. We are going to have all sorts of
<br />entrances and exits out this thing. The traffic is already really bad. If you turn off Waikoloa Road
<br />onto Paniolo Avenue, people are crazy, people start, they want to speed up to 35, 40 miles an hour
<br />because they want to get to where they are going. And, you know, then you have exits out of the
<br />gas station, and right after that is the entrance on the right side to Waikoloa Hills, and then there is
<br />an entrance to the people who live over the golf course area. And it’s a curve. And, by the way, it’s
<br />a big hill, which you can’t see from any of these drawings. When you make the turn into Waikoloa
<br />Hills, you are on a hill, and you are headed down. As you head down there, people are coming up.
<br />It’s already, it’s already difficult to see people exiting from the Highlands Shopping Center, which
<br />exists, onto Paniolo Avenue, as you are exiting the village. And there’s continual enforcement
<br />problems along the stretch of Waikoloa Road going out of the village; no one goes 35 miles an hour
<br />and they drive right up your tail, if you try to. There is going to be a need for increased police
<br />presence in this neighborhood, which was addressed in the, I guess, the FEIS on the No. 2 agenda
<br />issue. But nobody seems to have really thought this out. They haven’t presented their documents
<br />and their drawings in a legitimate and truthful way. There has been continuing omissions and
<br />obfuscations in all the materials, which have been presented, and I just don’t see -.
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<br />I also would like to point out: As far as I know, this is the only place, certainly in the Village and
<br />maybe (inaudible) and first we’re going to have the strip mall and we’re going to put urban setting
<br />right next to residences. Where else do we do that? Excuse me, commercial, commercial,
<br />commercial urban setting right next to residences. Do we do that somewhere else in the area here
<br />that I’m unaware of? I mean, yeah, we do it up like in a town like Kamuela. But, again, this is not
<br />a town; it’s supposed to be a village.
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<br />I’d also like to bring, one last thing, and I’m sorry for going for so long, but I’m really concerned
<br />about fire. The Village several years ago came very close to burning down. And if not for the
<br />heroic efforts of the – sorry I can’t remember their names – but the people, the federal people and
<br />the state people who deal with the fire situations, we came real close to losing Waikoloa Hills and
<br />maybe large lots of Waikoloa Village. I don’t see any big fire break going on there. People keep
<br />telling me there is; oh, I see, it is an electric access road, which is going to apparently become right
<br />next to a street. There is an emergency exit supposedly from Waikoloa Village. I have not gone
<br />down. It is a very unimproved road, which feeds out onto the highway. So you’ve got 5,000 people
<br />in Waikoloa Village, there is a fire, everybody wants to get out. They stop for the roundabout? I’m
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