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SPRINGER: Thank you. Please be seated, and we'll call on you following the <br />Applicant's discussion with us. You have received the Background Report? <br />MOOERS: Yes, I have. <br />SPRINGER: We look forward to your comments. <br />MOOERS: Thank you. There is obviously a great deal of comment on this <br />application, and I would really like to address some of the issues that Commissioner Kubota <br />raised and Commissioner Springer and the Chairman, excuse me, Planning Director Yuen. <br />This area from Palani Road south below Hienaloli Road is slated for urbanization. Every plan, <br />State and County plan calls for that. The opposition that I've received in letters and comments <br />are all related to infrastructure issues. We can lament the fact that as projects come forward one <br />at a time in this piecemeal approach that it's very difficult to provide the infrastructure because <br />each 10 or 15 or 20 or 30, 40 -lot subdivision in and of itself doesn't create serious issues. The <br />entire area does. <br />When you have situations where you have large landowners, say in Kapolei on Oahu, in which <br />you're looking at thousands of homes being constructed, it's very easy to plan for infrastructure at <br />that time. You design your roadways, your sewer systems, your water systems to accommodate <br />the volume or the size of the project that you project. The problem we have here on this Island, <br />and particularly in this area, is the land ownership pattern is such that you don't have very many <br />large landowners, so there's not one landowner who can stand the bite for a new intersection or <br />who can stand the bite for a new reservoir or water lines. And then we get into the situation <br />we're at today. I submit that this project will actually go a long way towards addressing those <br />infrastructure concerns. <br />If you look at the proposed conditions, you'll notice that the first condition related to water, let's <br />see if I can pull that up. Excuse me a moment. It says the effective date of this ordinance shall <br />be the date when the Applicant and the Department of Water Supply finalize an agreement for <br />water system improvements for the proposed subdivision. That sounds like a somewhat standard <br />condition, in other words, the zoning's effective when you can prove you have the water. If you <br />allow me, I'd like to go over to the map. <br />SPRINGER: Please do. <br />MOOERS: The water system in this area is inadequate. The water pressure right now <br />for this area is pumped up off of Queen Ka'ahumanu Extension, and that has limited <br />development of this area for quite some time. The well sites up above Mamalahoa Highway that <br />feed down through there, the Department of Water Supply needs additional corridors, they need <br />additional storage, and the storage is also -, acts as pressure breaks along the system. In order for <br />this project to occur, there will be substantial, substantial improvements required in order to <br />provide water. This is not a case where the developer can pay the $6,000 per unit and move <br />forward. They are going to have to put in major reservoirs. The only way that that project can <br />0 <br />