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ISHADO: Let me have one of those mikes. YUEN: Okay. Lester, is this is yours? ISHADO: Mr. Chairman, whaC Fd like to do is ask the Board's permission to have Mr. Yuen, you know, make the opening statement on behalf of the County. This one is NAKANO: You can use this with Jeny. This one is a shorter one. Thank you. ISHADO: if the Board does not object, I'd like to have Mr. Yuen make the opening statement on behalf of the County. FOX: There's no objection to Mr. Yuen making the statement on behalf of the County. YUEN: Good morning, members of the Board of Appeals. [wanted to make the opening here because of the critical importance of this issue for the County and for the community. What this corporation, Continental Pacific, is going to do is something that has never been before. It has never been allowed before in the County. It has never even tried before in the County. [t is so far out of bounds of what has ever been contemplated in this County of Hawaii. It completely subverts, undermines and violates the Subdivision Code and the Zoning Code. It would create a disastrous precedent for the community. What they want to do is take lots that existed in plantation camps, take pieces of land, plantation camps that existed years ago that were abandoned, destroyed, demolished and then planted in cane over 20 years ago, take those as parcels of the record, and use those to create new lots spread out among hundreds of thousands of acres of land that they are purchasing without going through the normal subdivision regulations of the County. The significance of this is that when you have pre-existing lots, when the County recognizes lots that you have, then you can go ahead and distribute those or reconfigure the property using that number of lots. The County recognizes the idea of pre-, of lots that pre-exist the Subdivision Code. Those, there are lots that, and the County in fact has recognized that they can create 55 lots out of the nine TMKs or Tax Map Keys that they have mauka part of the property and 33 lots, I believe, out of the, I believe, one or two tax map keys that exist in the makai part of the property. The property that we're talking about, by the way, is about 5,000 acres located on the mauka side of the highway in the general area of Pepeckeo, and about 800 acres on the makai side of the highway in Pepeckeo going down to, and including, Pepeckeo Point. What they want to do is to be able to count 224 lots out of these demolished plantation camps, and make those into parcels that then can be sold without having to build the kind 4