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saying one thing yesterday and something today, and then we are hoping that you agree with her
<br /> initial recommendation and our position today.
<br /> And one final comment that one way or the other, ultimately — the CDP is something that we have
<br /> to live with — and ultimately the one that really provides, that needs to provide guidance one way or
<br /> the other, as in the previous application, is the entity that approved the Plan, and that is the County
<br /> Council. So whether this body recommends favorably or unfavorably, we strongly recommend,
<br /> take a position one way or the other, and let the County Council be saddled with this task in trying
<br /> to clarify this. And hopefully, they will conclude, as I've tried to indicate, that this is your core, and
<br /> that the request then fulfills the spirit and the concept of a Neighborhood TOD. Thank you.
<br /> HOUSEL: Any questions of the applicant, Commissioners? Mr. Fuke, I had one question. On the
<br /> mauka property, is there any open space planned?
<br /> FUKE: The open space planned right now is, like, along this area because there's a drainage system
<br /> that comes along this way and — I forgot to mention that — see, right now, it's like a major drainage
<br /> system that goes this way and the balance of it kind of like sheet -flows over here. And so what they
<br /> want to do between these two property owners at their expense — they are spending more than
<br /> $6,000,000 for a drainage improvement — is to kind of like intercept the water so that it eliminates,
<br /> you know, the sheet -flow coming into the Pualani area and put it down along this road and into a
<br /> confined area. So the open space area is pretty much along the edge and also running this way. The
<br /> natural boundary, however, for — I would rationalize in terms of, like, the green space area — your
<br /> physical boundary would be the existing stream that goes this way, mauka - makai. Notwithstanding
<br /> that, between these two property owners, to accommodate the drainage system, what they've had to
<br /> do is set aside considerable land, and they are going to have, like, a walking path adjacent to the
<br /> floodway; the walking path will probably approximate about two, two and half acres.
<br /> HOUSEL: Will the floodway be improved, or will it be left in the natural state?
<br /> COOK: Yes. When we acquired the property, we had a flood study done because it falls within the
<br /> FEMA's map of 100 -year storm. The FEMA map showed the 100 -year storm, which was
<br /> referenced as Splitflow 2, coming to my property for the most part and then at the very southern
<br /> makai corner going into JKS property, and at that point it would flow right into the gunite -lined
<br /> channel that's there. When we did the flood study and cut the 2 -foot contour, we found, as many
<br /> times it does, the floodplain doesn't run where it was shown on the FEMA map. Those maps were
<br /> done a lot of times on aerial photos and the 5 -foot contour. So when we did the final study, we
<br /> found that the floodplain as it comes through the property, just barely starts at the bottom edge to
<br /> my property and then it goes over through, and at the very corner there at the south corner in the
<br /> highway is where it'll actually flow into the highway and won't even get into the channel to go
<br /> through the multi - celled box culvert for the roadway. So what we've designed by working together
<br /> is catching the — there is a CLOMR on Bolton's property next door to us, because Splitflow 1 which
<br /> goes under a culvert over here, they've got a CLOMR for the development of that, and we have
<br /> Splitflow 2 that comes through our property — so we've designed this channel to catch it to get it
<br /> into that gunite channel, then it would go under the multi - celled box culvert into the area just below
<br /> the park. And there, there's the State highway with the project we have on the lower side, Pualani
<br /> Makai, and when we did the flood study, it determined that a 100 -year flood would reach over that
<br /> highway some 400 feet and possibly wash out the highway. We had to go in and design to correct
<br /> the problem for the State highway. Our engineer, we just got the plans approved in February of this
<br /> year, I think, to put in a new aluminum multi -plate culvert; it'll be 20 -foot wide, 14 feet high and
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