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LIM: Thank you very much. We've received the background and recommendation, and have no
<br /> comments. We note that the Planning Director has incorporated most of our proposed amendments
<br /> to the conditions that we proposed to the Commission. We agree with those changes.
<br /> I think part of the issues that you've been hearing, and as you can see from the mapping, I don't
<br /> know if there is a misconception from the Heights at Hualalai subdivision, but we will not be able to
<br /> connect up to them until such time as the parcel to the immediate south, which is Parcel 22, is
<br /> developed. The roadway layout within this particular project was worked on with the Department
<br /> of Public Works over the last year. And I think you probably know that if the developer had his
<br /> choice, he wouldn't put a more expensive north -south road through the project, but that's part of the
<br /> connectivity issue, that's what the Kona CDP requires. And so that's why you've got an extension
<br /> down into heading towards the Sugar Cane Lane project and the Heights at Hualalai, which is the
<br /> Pualena Street extension. So essentially, what we are doing is we are doing our part to implement
<br /> the Kona CDP to run the road through our project out to Hualalai Road.
<br /> Part of the other benefit of the project, and something that I think most people don't know of
<br /> because we are just working with the Department of Public Works on, is there is a significant
<br /> drainage way located further north of the property that comes down and cuts down towards the
<br /> highway, more makai of the project; however, the drainage in the area has been diverse, and some
<br /> of the Kona Orchards residents indicated that the water is coming through their project out onto
<br /> Hualalai Road. What the project is proposing to do is to install a series of drywells and drainage
<br /> basins through the project, and essentially what we are going to do is, although it's not our legal
<br /> duty to do so, we are going to try to pick up as much of that sheet flow coming down from the
<br /> mauka off Hualalai Road as possible within our project. So we are going to be, I think, contributing
<br /> substantially to the potential drainage issues in that area.
<br /> I think that we'd like to ask for your support. We think it's in compliance with the Kona CDP and
<br /> the General Plan for the area. And we think it'll provide needed residential lots, because not
<br /> everybody can afford, you know, a $500,000 half -acre lot or one -acre lot or higher, I guess. So we
<br /> are trying to provide a little bit of a lower -end product, and Mr. Barrett has full intentions of
<br /> developing this project as shown. The concern, the last concern, I guess, was kind of, you know,
<br /> this is too dense of a project, the RS 10,000- square foot lots are too dense. One thing that will
<br /> ameliorate that concern to some degree, I think, is when you look at the — Jeff, give that project
<br /> concept plan, please — when you look at the lots that are going to be on the mauka side of the
<br /> project, which is the area fronting Hualalai Road and the area that's to the south that's going to be
<br /> closest to the Sugar Cane Lane and the Heights at Hualalai project, that's all this area to the right of
<br /> your screen and to the south there, those lots range from, up to 15,500 square feet. We are going to
<br /> be doing the Planned Unit Development. As you can see, there's lots of smaller lots down closer to
<br /> the interior portion of the project, that's partly due to the topography where you have to reduce your
<br /> cut and fill; so the actual vision that you would see as you drive along Hualalai Road is, those lots
<br /> on top there are averaging about 13,156 square feet in size anyway, and those lots you see are up to
<br /> 15,500 square feet along the top there of the project. So we don't think it's going to be out of the
<br /> character with the neighborhood. Thank you.
<br /> HOUSEL: Commissioners, do you have any questions of the applicant? Mr. Lim, I had a question
<br /> to clarify. There is a parcel of land between the Sugar Cane Estates and the subject property, and
<br /> we are talking about Pualena Street. Do you have an agreement with the adjacent landowner to
<br /> allow that street to go through?
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