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know, for lumber. First of all, it's robusta. Very few people know how to process robusta for <br />use, and it would destroy the native trees that are there. So, I recently introduced some language <br />to the County Tax Code, Code 9, to say that we should have as one of the agricultural categories, <br />preservation of Native Hawaiian forests. And, you know, this is not a pure forest. It's a mixed <br />forest. I'm hoping, I know it sounds like a personal thing, but I know other people. I'm a forest <br />steward. I know other forest stewards. We've worked with J. B. Friday. I'm walking with <br />DOFAW. I know a lot of people who would benefit from this. I just want you as a Planning <br />Commission to know that not only are there special places like Waipi`o, there's special little <br />slivers of land here and there that are anomalous and that I would hope that you as individuals <br />but also as a body would be able to open your minds to the possibility that there's some things <br />you don't know about, and I'm talking about this because it's something not very people know <br />about, and I want you to know about it. <br />CLARKSON: Thank you. We're going to have one more person testify. <br />FAY: Also bats live in my forest, the Kamehameha butterfly lives in my forest. <br />HALL: Sorry, maa'm, if you're going to continue to talk, use the mic. <br />FAY: The bat lives in my forest. The Kamehameha butterfly lives in my forest. There's a lot of <br />rare creatures there. <br />CLARKSON: Thank you. Could Jennifer Weinert come up, please, and please stay seated for <br />any future questions from the Commission. Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or <br />affirm to tell the truth on this matter before the Planning Commission? <br />WEINERT: I do. <br />CLARKSON: Thank you. Please state your name into the microphone and proceed. <br />WEINERT: Aloha. My name is Jennifer Weinert, and I'm here to talk about my feeling of <br />upholding the Hamakua Community Development Plan as written, and the reason I say that is <br />because it reflects the views of our community over the last nine years of gathering all the <br />information. And, that by upholding it, you will preserve the harmony in our community, and if <br />you don't recognize all the work and all the comments from all of our community, that you'll <br />cause dissension. There will be a wedge, and that's not what we want. We want to have <br />harmony within our community, and so I ask that you please vote the will of the people. Thank <br />you. <br />CLARKSON: Thank you, all. Are there any questions for these testifiers from the <br />Commission? If not, thank you. There being no more persons wishing to testify at this point, <br />I'll, the Chair would like to hear a motion that public testimony be closed. <br />REPLOGLE: I will make a motion that public testimony on the Hamakua CDP be closed. <br />RAFFIPIY: I second. <br />EXHIBIT A <br />25 <br />