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SCD Kona 108 LLC 700 Bishop Street, Suite 1000 Honolulu, HI 96813 (808) 599-5720 August 28, 2006 Mr. Scott Bell, President Association of Homeowners of Malulani Gardens c/o Clark Realty Corporation 75-5722 Kuakini Highway, #103 Kailua-Kona, 14196740 RE: The Salvation Army, suggested widening of Malulani Drive at Queen Kaahumanu Highway intersection and suggested re-location of mid-level road. Dear Scott, Stanford Carr and I really appreciate your assistance in the matter of our re-zoning request for the nearby lands at Kona Coffee Estates. We have been and continue to work hard on trying to accommodate the desires of the residents of Malulani Gardens. These desires appear to have changed somewhat recently, based on the oral and written comments by some of the residents as well as the petition signed by over 50 owners of Malulani Gardens. You were not present at tnnauy of the previous meetings and may not know the whole history of some of the issues, so I would like to mention this history. The 24 acres comprising Malulani Gardens ("MG") was re-zoned Residential in 1967 by Jack Ujimori, with the proposed access coming up the hill from Kuakini Highway. Queen Kaahumanu Highway ("QKH") cut off the lower portion of the property and access from Kuakini when it was built in the early `80's, and the State provided access from QKH to the MG parcel. As QKH is a "Limited Access" highway, the State Department of Transportation Highways Division ("DOTH'~ designated the highway access from QKH into MG parcel as the access to be used not only by the MG parcel but also by the Kanuha Ohana parcel and the parcels which comprise Lowes and the proposed KCE. Hawaiian Development Corporation ("HDC") agreed to buy the MG parcel and the KCE parcels in 1987, and subsequently sold the MG parcel to Brian R. Cook ("BRC") in 1992. At the time of that sale, HDC placed an easement across the MG parcel in favor of the Kanuha parcel, the Lowes parcel and the KCE parcels, and a condition of the sale was that BRC had to dedicate that road when it was built. BRC proceeded to plan and develop MG and HDC proceeded to plan, entitle and develop the Lowes commercial lands plus the lands now planned for KCE. Note that HDC had planned to build additional commercial improvements plus over 400 housing units for the local market on the 108 acres now planned for the low density KCE. HDC obtained "Commercial" zoning for the approximately 18 acres by Lowes in 1998, at which point less than a dozen homes had been built and sold in MG. All existing MG owners were notified at that