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r JJ/ <br /> Good afternoon Mr. Chairperson and members of the <br /> committee. Thank you for the opportunity to comment on this <br /> issue. <br /> All of the residential and commercial areas surrounding the <br /> proposed Terrace project are long standing and stable. As <br /> such, we have watched the impact of more traffic -its noise, <br /> pollution and disruption -coming and going to other <br /> developing neighborhoods. We are unique in that our streets <br /> are the hub of how Hilo gets to where it goes. <br /> In all discussions preceding this one, the Terrace has been <br /> discussed as if it is a stand alone entity -unaffected by its <br /> neighbors - us, and, as if all negative impacts on its neighbors - <br /> us, have been addressed. <br /> The first part of that statement is apparently true -the Terrace is <br /> unaffected by us. Neighbors attended community meetings at <br /> the onset of the project proposal and found the lack of a <br /> detailed, realistic and well-thought out plan obvious from the <br /> start. The contradictions are: <br /> In the first meeting, the developer was going to fully <br /> develop the project from start to finish <br /> • In the second meeting, the developer was only going to <br /> put in the basic infrastructure and then sell to sub- <br /> developers <br /> • Maybe there would be 300 single family homes, then <br /> maybe 600 single family homes <br /> • People who worked at Hilo Medical Center would need <br /> housing. Most of us know that the majority of their staff <br /> already have housing <br /> <br /> ' Professors, observatory personnel and UH students would <br /> occupy the "transient housing" or condos. In order to <br /> keep out the "riff raft", Mike Teramoto, one of the <br /> developer's representatives, said that these units would <br /> Comm. No. W • <br /> Ref. To:P <br /> Ref. Uote <br /> <br />