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PAISHON-DUARTE: Thank you. This question is for the County staff. I just want to know, what is the benefit to the County of Hawaii to omit Condition J? JACKSON: Commissioner Paishon-Duarte, I would say there is no benefit necessarily or detriment, either. We are doing it because we have not placed a restriction to secure a building permit on any of the other lots in Kaloko Mauka that have received rezoning, so it's somewhat a matter of fairness that for some reason the County Council put this restriction on this particular lot several years ago, but they haven't done that since, and so it's a matter of fairness to allow these folks to develop the same way others have within the subdivision. PAISHON-DUARTE: Thank you. VIOTUSEK: I just wanted to point out the language in Condition J; it doesn't require that the landowner complete these infrastructure improvements but rather indicates that building permits could not be issued until the infrastructure improvements are completed, and then it goes on to say that if the infrastructure improvements are not completed within 24 months of the adoption of the ordinance, the applicant can proceed with the building permit. So the idea being that someone else, appears as though, someone else would be doing these infrastructure improvements, likely the County through the collection of fair share, but this, building permits wouldn't be issued until improvements are done; if that didn't work out after 24 months, they could proceed. So I don't see that this language actually required the landowner to complete those;just put a restriction on when they could get a building permit. Any other questions from Commissioners? Commissioner Knowles. KNOWLES: I'm just curious about what—this is for the applicant and for Mr. Fuke—I'm just curious about what the status of the working group is, if you have any information—or for you, Maija—that was laid out with respect to the fair share fund balance and dealing with the improvements to the roadways there. FUKE: Commissioner Knowles, I will have to defer that to the staff because, you know, it's really, the State DOT has kind of recommended it that they get together, you know, together with the County, and whether that has materializedit appears at this point in time nothing has materialized, you know, regrettably. And I think that having like three quarters of a million dollars, I think you can do quite a bit of improvements, you know, to that area. So I'll defer to the Director and the staff on this question. JACKSON: Commissioner Knowles, the working group has not been formed to date as far as I know, and I think perhaps the rep from Department of Public Works, Robyn Matsumoto, can respond to that a little better than I can. MATSUMOTO: Commissioner, from what I'm told we haven't done a working group for this intersection. I know a lot of people think, right, three, you know, three quarters of a million dollars is a lot of money; I asked a colleague how much intersection improvement would cost for traffic signals, and it's a crazy amount of money, it's approximately three million for a full intersection signal. I realize that area is smaller, it may be less, but, you know, with the cost of 6 EXHIBIT C (DRAFT)