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From: Terry Warner
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2025 7:04 PM
To: Council Testimony
Subject: Support for Communication 159.41 to amend Bill No. 32, Draft 2
Aloha Council members,
Please support amendment 159.41 to amend Bill No. 32, Draft 2. We have been resident owners in
Waikoloa for 28 years. Twenty plus years ago my wife, Lisa, and I did volunteer preliminary research and
submitted, along with Pete Hoffmann, potential escape routes with maps, graphics and aerial
photographs to the board and management of Waikoloa Village. It was several years later that the
inadequate extension of Hulu street was completed. When we were evacuated for an approaching
wildfire in 2021, we were exposed, along with approximately 200 cars full of people and belongings, for
over an hour before reaching Queen Ka'ahumanu highway. If winds had shifted, we, along with everyone
else, could have been trapped in the path of the fire. Fortunately, no vehicle stalled or broke down on the
one lane, mixed surface road that day.
Waikoloa Village desperately needs a second road for everyday and emergency use to serve the growing
population.
Mahalo,
Terry Warner and Lisa Yee
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