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support the Applicant and their position, they are a proven affordable housing developer in the State of Hawaii. So, Mr. Rock will be making the presentation on behalf of the Applicant. RAFFIPIY: Thank you ma'am, Mr. Rock go ahead. ROCK: Can I confirm, I may ask is it 3 minutes for an introduction or for the entire discussion? RAFFIPIY: Mr. Rock, I take it back, go ahead and make your presentation. ROCK: Alright, thank you very much. My names is James Rock I d here, on behalf of Ikaika Ohana. We are the developers proposing the project Kaiaulu O Nlj# olani. Few things I do want to thank everybody for having us here today and I do wanfl- fharik the Planning Department. It's been a pleasure working with them thus far =dn the proj&t. I understand we have a few disagreements currently in the recommendations _buNverall, if'swb_een great to work with them. - - - A way of quick background, Ikaika Ohana is a miss ffidriven affordable housing'd_e eloper. We currently have about a hundred and eight, a hundred and e ghtff1'8'0) affordable housing units within the County. Last week we secured all of the finaneixff sixty (60) single family homes in Kona that are going to start construction -this week. We havanother project in Waikoloa that's an additional 60 -units that we hop e?t --il _construction iri he: first quarter of next year. As far as the proposed project, in general there is a couple_of_things"U' e would like to highlight. The first is that for affordable housing we can -use affordablerr Ming as a tool to help address issues within the County,,, of - f_these issues=will be directly discussed in this presentation but overall, our view of the world isthat affordable housing can be a net contributor. We can make our residents better,owwe& can make our neighborhoods, better, and we do encourage just the feedback and participation=_ th the anous groups to"inake the project the best project possible. For our project; the vcrsy=:that we'_e__looked at our site we try to take holistic approach. We do want to .balance multiple eoncernsboth the number of units that we are able to provide but also parkirirequirements, opepace, laseaping, the livability of the site and the tenant experienU There are a lotZffictors__.i we consider and so, when we start working on our developmefi s a balancing ;act. It is input from multiple parties, it's review processes from multiple agencies =State, Fedefal, County, and so bring in all of these things together into a successful development. It;des take time, it takes consideration, and it's a pretty deliberate process. So, ultimately what we kind of a goal for this is that for affordable housing development what we would like to do is maintain flexibility where possible. So, that as we go through the process of formalizing our designs and coming up with sort of the final plans. We do want to have room so that we can make practical adjustments so that the project can still move forward. The County still can get the 64 -units of affordable housing that it desperately need, and that we don't necessarily have to over burden the Planning Commission or any of the other groups and coming back for repeat approvals. So that if something is described with the hard and fast rule today it EXHIBIT A (DRAFT) 8