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and take our kids to school at the same times that these people will be coming in, turning around, and <br />needing to get back out on Kaumana Drive, it will severely impact the traffic, and the access and <br />egress for the residents of the subdivision. That’s really all I have to say, is to remind you folks just <br />whether or not this is an appropriate use of the property. Thank you. <br /> <br />AU: Okay, thank you. Any questions for the testifier? Okay, we have three more people signed up. <br />Thank you, guys. Three more people signed up. And anybody else? Last call. Okay, we have three <br />more. <br /> <br />TORIGOE: One more. <br /> <br />AU: Oh, and there’s one more signed in. Okay, we have four. We have Alan McNarie, Steve <br />Hirakami, and Wayne Kanemoto. And I understand we have somebody else. <br /> <br />Okay, I’ll just take you three right now. Why don’t you raise your right hands. Do you swear and <br />affirm to tell the truth on this matter in front of the Windward Planning Commission? <br /> <br />TESTIFIERS: I do <br /> <br />AU: Okay, thank you. Okay, we’ll start off with the first guy, Alan McNarie. <br /> <br />MCNARIE: Hello. This is an odd position for me. Normally when I’m at these hearings I’m <br />covering it as a reporter, so -. But in this case, I have a direct interest. My son is a student at <br />Connections. My son is very bright but e has ADHD. I can’t address a lot of the issues about the exact <br />site, but I do know that he needs the school. He works much better in small classrooms. There are <br />only two, as far as I know, charter high schools on this side of the island. And, I mean, I would love it <br />if it was a -. He started out here at the Volcano School; but there’s not enough high school kids up <br />there to have a high school there. And to get critical mass even for a small charter school, you’ve got <br />to have a huge area. And I’m very, very glad that I got him into Connections. <br /> <br />And just a couple of things. I’m not going to cover the stuff like the access, although people are <br />coming in on buses. It’s not as high an impact as say a small shopping center. And I know that this <br />Commission has approved such things in agricultural communities. Usually a neighborhood school is <br />a talking point for a neighborhood. If someone is coming in to look at a house they ask is there a <br />school within bicycling distance or even walking distance? So it’s not necessarily a bad thing for, to <br />be in a community. <br /> <br />And only one other small point. I’ve written a lot of articles about ecology. As many of you know, <br />I’ve written articles about Kaumana Cave. This is not, the welfare of Kaumana Cave has not <br />necessarily been a strong concern of this neighborhood. When people were exploring that, mapping <br />that cave out a few years ago, they were flushed on. People were using that cave, they found reefs of <br />toilet paper and diapers in there. If you’re going to address that cave, there’s a lot of things you’d fix <br />besides -. I mean, the high school should, of course, have a proper septic system. A lot of these <br />houses don’t. That’s something to think about. And that’s about all I have to say. <br /> <br /> 20 <br /> EXHIBIT D <br /> <br /> <br />