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area has beautiful waterfalls, beautiful land, beautiful ocean that gives us food, life, play, and
<br />many wonderful experiences. Speeding is a large concern for one, okay, as I've had a nephew
<br />that was hit by a car there before. There was a car speeding, and it hit a telephone pole. Ended
<br />up in our yard. I had a car come through my yard in the past. Took down sealing wax palms,
<br />and this was before, this was about ten years ago and more when my nephew got hit by a car.
<br />Secondly, the influx of people that's coming to the area happenedI had a personal experience
<br />also with strangers approaching in a non -safe way. Many of us have daughters and children,
<br />daughters who've been approached for lack of better words by people of "scary" nature. Let's
<br />just put it that way. So, having something like a wellness center concerns me because I feel like
<br />it's going to destroy the essence of what makes our community a community. It's going to
<br />change the culture which already is rapidly changing, and it's taking away from the beauty of our
<br />small place that we love and we call home. It's my personal feeling that if we want to develop
<br />our small, tight rural community areas, Imy personal feeling, I feel like the development
<br />should stay where it came from. The idea of developing a small area should not be in our rural
<br />area. It's rural for a reason, and I feel like people who come to our area and they see how
<br />beautiful it is, how pristine the rivers are, how plentiful the oceans are, how it gives us life, how
<br />virile the lands are, which has fed my family, families for generations. With development, I fear
<br />that those kinds of things are rapidly going to change. I've seen this in other parts of the world,
<br />and it breaks my heart. I've seen other people who have said, man, just ten years ago, we could
<br />have our children walk up and down the street. Today, I wouldn't let my own children walk just
<br />to the river where we played for fear of these kinds of things—speed, stranger danger, and now
<br />with development, we don't know how it's going to affect our rivers, and oceans, and our lands.
<br />And, I have more that I have submitted later—letter. Thank you.
<br />CLARKSON: Please submit your written testimony if you haven't already. Thank you. To the
<br />folks at the front desk.
<br />MEDEIRO S -GARCIA: Aloha, thank you. My name is Jaerick Medeiros-Garcia. I'm also a
<br />resident of Pepe`ekeo. I sit on the Pepe`ekeo Community Association Board as the acting
<br />president. I live directly across of this application, and I seeI see myself because we do have a
<br />flower farm right across of these guys, and I see that they have been already having people over
<br />before even submitting this application. I also see people that come off their property onto our
<br />property to pick our flowers that we grow to, you know, support our families. They just invite
<br />themselves on our property, cut flowers, pull flowers, pick fruits, you know. They already been
<br />doing treatment there. Every day we smell marijuana coming straight from that property. You
<br />know, so, these folks only have been there not too long, probably about six years or so, five years
<br />maybe. But, I am a supporter of Bill 108, and to, that is to, in support of our ag lands and our
<br />residential area. I am against allowing them to have this Special Permit, because there's nobody
<br />to enforce whatever it is that they are requesting with this permit. They are asking for two
<br />weddings a year. Yeah, right. You think only two weddings a year going be—there's gonna be
<br />way more than that. Who is going to be watching for these things to happen? Nobody is going
<br />to be watching for that to happen, but we're going to deal with the consequences of people
<br />parking up our driveways, along the roads, which really don't have parking on the side of the
<br />road. To allow only 12 people, overnight accommodations as a bed & breakfast, I really don't
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