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which is just off of the screen. There is a base yard in the northwest corner of the property; you can see a couple of structures there. And I believe that is generally the location of the future sewer treatment plant. And these are a few photos of the property and the University of Hawaii campus. So this photo on the top left was taken at the very end of Ane Keohokdlole Highway; there is a cul-de-sac at the end of the road, and this view is looking southeast towards the university buildings. Then if you turn around, if you are standing in the cul-de-sac and turn around and look towards the Pdlamanui property, that would be what you see in the lower right-hand image. And, so the Road 3A Extension, or Ane Keohokdlole Highway Extension, would take off in the general area where the orange cone is located and go directly north. The planning director's recommendations. So for rezone 05-10, this is for the Project District ordinance, the planning director generally agrees with the intent of all the applicant's requested amendments, deletions, and additions, and recommends the Leeward Planning Commission forward a favorable recommendation to the County Council to amend Ordinance number 09 132, with the modifications shown in the draft bill. And there are several modifications. Pdlamanui, as you know, was scheduled for hearing last month, and since then Pdlamanui and the Planning Department and Public Works have been working really closely together to try to find some agreement in the phasing and some of the improvements related to roadways. So the, my understanding is that the recommendation you have before you for both ordinances is agreeable to Pdlamanui, and I'm just going to, rather than go through every little change in each of the draft bills, I'm going to point out some of the significant things that the Planning Department is recommending. So the first one is to provide an emergency access road within the Road 2C right-of-way from Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway to Ane Keohokdlole Highway prior to occupancy within Phase 1. And the reason for this is that throughout Phase I and 11 development all of the traffic from P51amanui will be going down Ane Keohokdlole Highway to Ka'iminani Drive, and so the department wanted to have some type of emergency access road so that first responders can use the road, if they are coming to or from Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway directly up to the University Village through the Palamanui property. The second—and as I mentioned, P51amanui has already rough-graded this roadway, so they felt that this was not as significant burden or requirement to provide in Phase I. The second recommendation from the director would be to add a condition allowing for development of the business park in an earlier phase— currently it's proposed in Phase Ill—provided, however, that the intersection at Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway and University Drive up to the Ane Keohokdlole Highway is constructed prior to occupancy within the phase. And then the—the main reason for that is that the CDP policies recommend providing connectivity when you have two developed areas, so once the business park starts to develop out, we are recommending that the connection of University Drive between the business park and the University Village be made. And then the last recommendation would be to add a 20-year construction completion deadline for full buildout of the project. And typically, when we have very large projects—as I mentioned before, this is a 700-plus-acre property—the buildout timeline is consistent with a 20-year construction completion, and the Planning Department often recommends such a long term construction completion deadline for very large projects, such as some of our resorts that we've had developed. So those are the three recommendations that are significant to rezone 05-10. 14 DRAFT