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ranges from about 20 to 22 feet, whether it's in an agricultural or the urban area. It's more like
<br /> what is dedicable standard.
<br /> Within also the ag or the residential area, you are allowed to have like a private road, a private
<br /> road which if it services less, you know six or less lots, then the minimum right-of-way is 20
<br /> feet, and you know, your pavement width is 16 feet. So, like in this situation here, the private
<br /> roads are like those narrow ones that you're suggesting here, so that is like 20 feet wide with a
<br /> 20-foot pavement, I mean a 16-foot wide pavement.
<br /> Relative to, you know, the cemetery question, as the staff pointed out, if you're going to—let's
<br /> assume that this subdivision, this is for the sake of discussion, is granted Final Approval as is
<br /> right now. So, whoever owns the cemetery lot will still be the developer. So, the developer then
<br /> has to decide on like what he or she wants to do, whether he wants to attempt to convey it to the
<br /> County, convey it to a, you know, the community association within the subdivision, or to
<br /> convey it to some other entity.
<br /> About, over the last six weeks, I've had some discussions with Council Member Val Poindexter,
<br /> and then so she mentioned that there is an organization in the Hamakua area that, you know, has
<br /> taken it upon themselves to kind of do caretaking of a lot of these plantation-type of cemeteries.
<br /> And, so, this could possibly be one of those that would be kind of like an adopted cemetery,
<br /> because it's all in, it's really like in a state of disrepute right now, and that's the reason why I
<br /> think when there was some mechanical equipment in that area, you know, there was some
<br /> bamboo groves and large trees, so the—Mr. Olson had agreed to let one of these guys do some
<br /> interim farming in that area, so an excavator was put in that area, you know, to remove a lot of
<br /> these, the trees and the bamboo groves, and during the process of doing that, at least like four or
<br /> five, I think, some of the headstones were kind of like knocked over because they couldn't see it.
<br /> But, so that's like as the staff has indicated, is now a situation between the State Historic
<br /> Preservation Division and actually like Mr. Olson because he still owns the property.
<br /> Specifically on that, SHPD had requested the Land Board to fine the landowner in violation of
<br /> like certain State statutes, you know, because of this, this inadvertent desecration. They were
<br /> supposed to go before the Land Board in December of 2017. It was agendized. It was never
<br /> considered. It was kind of like withdrawnand then-it was back again on the agenda the next
<br /> month in December, ah, in January. At that time also it was withdrawn and at that time, Mr.
<br /> Olson and his attorney became aware of this situation, so they had a separate meeting with the
<br /> SHPD director, and the,and their attorney. And, at that time, Mr. Olson explained the
<br /> circumstances behind it, and so SHPD division chief basically said, okay, we'll look into it, and
<br /> it's been over a year, and nothing has happened. And, the attorney basically informed me, and
<br /> then as well as I conveyed that information to the staff, that as far as their concern, they did as
<br /> much as they could. The ball right now is in the State's court, and whatever the State said, then
<br /> they'll have to comply with.
<br /> But, to add to that, there is an archaeological inventory survey done of the property although,
<br /> you know, for all intent and purpose, the only feature on the property is really like the cemetery,
<br /> because the rest of the land was used for some form of agriculture, primarily like sugar cane. So,
<br /> the archaeological inventory survey is still kind of stuck at SHPD for over two years. And, in the
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