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October 13, 2006 Letter to Hawai'i County Council SUBJECT: Response to Comments on Bill 251 and Status Report Page 2 of 5 µ This revised project will have 57 1+ acre lots and 56 multi-family homes (for a total of 113 dwelling units), with a total of 23 multi-family homes designated as "affordable". The other 33 multi-family homes will be targeted to the local market as either "for-sale" or "for-rent" product, or as a combination of the two. This design produces a low-density project of one dwelling per just under 1-acre of land on the 108-acre site. Of interest is that the change from the Salvation Army site to additional housing actually decreases the traffic at peak hours while leaving the water usage about the same, so the change from Salvation Army to additional residential actually is better for traffic issues. W B: Public Mauka Access All the mauka property owner comments are on the record as NOT wanting public access on their small access road. All the Malulani Gardens residents are on the record as wanting additional mauka access. We agree that the road serving the mauka property owners who submitted comments is not sufficient to carry any increase in traffic and do not intend to use that roadway for our project. The Planning Department plans to extend Hienaloli Road from its current terminus to Palani Road across approximately seven separate properties as a major north-south arterial road. At the request of the Council, we made contact with all the affected property owners, and all but two have indicated a a willingness to work with such a plan (see August 7, 2006 letter to you from us and August 21, 2006 letter to you from Poka Laenui). The Burgess 'ohana and the Rapoza'ohana have indicated they (or at least some 'ohana members) are NOT interested in working with such a plan, so the timing of this road remains uncertain. The other road planned by the Planning Department is a mid-level road that is planned to eventually connect Kona Coffee Estates, Malulani Gardens and other area properties to Queen Kaaahumanu Highway and Palani Road. The County-required portion of this road already exists in graded form through Malulani Gardens (see letter with Exhibits to Scott Bell dated August 28, 2006) and the other property owners between Queen Ka ahumanu Highway and Kona Coffee Estates all support this road, but one of the two property owners between Kona Coffee Estates and Palani Road (the Rapoza'ohana) does not support this road. Therefore, it appears that this road will connect Queen Kaahumanu Highway and Malulani Garden&Xanuha'ohana property/Kona Coffee Estates to each other in the foreseeable future, but the status of this road continuing on to Palani Road is uncertain. See attached Exhibit "B" for an example of the likely layout of this road. Please note that the majority of Malulani Gardens owners who attended a meeting in September voted NOT to have this road connected as a function of building the Kona Coffee Estates project (they would prefer to have this road built later), and we agreed to comply with this request as best we can, subject to County requirements. a C: Water The County DWS has confirmed that we have 57 existing water unit commitments and that additional a water for the project as envisioned is available (see DWS letters dated August 3, 2006 and September