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GIMPEL: I’m wrapping it up.
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<br />BEAUDET: If I give everyone the privilege of a couple of more comments, then -.
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<br />GIMPEL: Okay, I’m wrapping it up.
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<br />BEAUDET: Yeah.
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<br />GIMPEL: The subterfuge of not applying to the state Land Use Commission for this approval
<br />shouldn’t be rewarded because of their relationship. Finally, we know that the applicant’s assertion
<br />that there aren’t any water conveyance systems like culverts present in or near the project is in error;
<br />there is a drainage culvert at the southeast corner of the property, and the culvert borders the south
<br />side of Parcel 42, which is owned by Hu Ko Pa. Thank you, and I’ll be happy to answer any
<br />questions, if you have any.
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<br />COOPERSON: Could I use that microphone and address the map over there?
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<br />BEAUDET: Do you want to, would you prefer using the laser?
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<br />COOPERSON: No, that’s okay. I wouldn’t know how to use that anyway. My name is Joel
<br />Cooperson. I’m a 44-year resident here in Kona. Of those 44 years I taught seventh and eighth
<br />graders for 31 at Hōlualoa, and then when they switched over at Kealakehe, Kealakehe
<br />Intermediate. Point I want to make is, and you’ve got my testimony over there and I’m not going to
<br />review very much of it, but I do want to address a few things that maybe you are not aware of.
<br />First, this whole section is 60 acres, and it was divided down into 14.95, 96, just under 15 acres,
<br />which falls below the Land Use Commission scrutiny. It’s not a coincidence that that happened,
<br />that some of it, which is at a pretty strategic spot, was sheared off and that’s where a water tank is
<br />going to be located. Secondly, this is Sugar Cane, that’s Sugar Cane Lane, there is a road here that
<br />they are talking about going through, and in talking to Barry Parker who is the developer of Sugar
<br />Cane, which by the way are 20,000 square feet, that easement hasn’t been given; that road is not
<br />approved for this particular subdivision, which reduces their ability to come onto Puapuaanui Street.
<br />So, and all the lots in this area are 15,000-square foot, this is going to be 20,000 square feet,
<br />minimum size here is 15,000 square feet, and they want to come in with the 15,000 PUD when
<br />many of them are going to be 10,000 square feet. So basically, what they are doing is trying to ram
<br />a subdivision that is a little bit not appropriate for that area. Down below, maybe, because of
<br />Pualani; up there, all the lots are 15,000 square feet or more. Thank you.
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<br />ARCHIBALD: Good morning again. Andy Archibald. I’m a resident of Hualālai Colony. I would
<br />like to share two nightmares with you. As an employee of the Department of Education of the State
<br />of Hawai‘i, I’ve worked in the two school districts in West Hawai‘i for four years. I’ve watched a
<br />school system ranked in the bottom ten percent of the country, and the school area ranked in the
<br />bottom ten percent of the state. And every student you add to this district it’s going to burden an
<br />already failing school system. If you would like my assessment, please ask me on your own time;
<br />the nightmare takes more than three minutes.
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<br />Hualālai Road is unsafe at any speed currently. Every car you add to the road is going to increase
<br />the burden of safety. Every time a utility pole goes down on the road, we are without phone, cable
<br />or electricity for two to thirty hours. Every time a car accident occurs on the road, the people there
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