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could all please come up. Yeah, please come up and have a seat. Please raise your right hand. <br />Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth before the Planning Commission? <br /> <br />TESTIFIERS: \[Inaudible acknowledgment.\] <br /> <br />UNGER: Please state your name and area of residence. We have two mics there. Please do <br />share them and speak directly into the mic. Thank you. <br /> <br />MORGAN: Is it on? <br /> <br />UNGER: Yeah. <br /> <br />MORGAN: Aloha. My name is Kittrena Morgan. I’m a resident of Kona. <br /> <br />LUI: My name is Abel Simeona Lui and I — <br /> <br />HALL: Sorry, just one at a time. <br /> <br />LUI: — live in the Hawaiian Kingdom. <br /> <br />HALL: Sorry, one at a time, so you can introduce yourself and provide testimony, and then pass <br />it to next — <br /> <br />UNGER: Okay, sorry, thank you. Okay — <br /> <br />MORGAN: Okay, thank you. <br /> <br />UNGER: — so you may proceed then with your testimony. <br /> <br />MORGAN: Yeah, I just heard about this meeting a couple days ago, but I’m just coming to <br />request that you guys either put like a long pause on approval of this SMA or completely abolish <br />the plan of more speculative development in that area. Like you said, don’t mention the traffic, <br />that’s a number one concern. Number two concern is the pollution of the effluent going into the <br />ocean. This is in a flood plain, which is well documented; that’s why they were held up by <br />FEMA. And in the past five years there have been bigger floods in Kona than I’d ever seen in <br />the 33 years as a resident here. Number – what am I at – number four now is it’s well <br />documented we are having rising of the sea level, along with right now we have a giant threat of <br />possible tsunami with the Hilina Slump, you know. Kapoho dropped into the water, boom. So <br />do you want to put all these people in danger on your decision to allow thousands of extra <br />tourists to be in this area? And we just know by where it is and what kind of development this <br />is; it’s not going to be housing for anybody that already lives here that’s homeless. Another <br />situation is we do know there’s archaeological sites there, many walls, and the developers like to <br />just claim that it’s historically used as ranching. Historical ranching was just in the past 100, 120 <br />years; before that this was all fishing villages, you know, religious sites and burial grounds, <br />which is well documented. And it’s just really saddens me when the developments are allowed <br />to go under what they call data preservation that means take a picture and write a picture of the <br />17 <br />EXHIBIT A <br /> <br />