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KAY: I would have to take a look at the tax map and see. I'm not exactly sure how that lot
<br />came to be in the middle of the larger lot. It could be a land grant or it could be a pre-existing lot
<br />there that was designated, yeah.
<br />CLARKSON: Any further questions? If not, will the Applicant or their representative please
<br />come forward? Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this
<br />matter before the Commission today?
<br />FUKE: Yes, I do.
<br />CLARKSON: Please introduce yourself and your relationship to the application and proceed.
<br />FUKE: Sure. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman and Members of the Commission. My
<br />name is Sidney Fuke. I'm representing the Applicant, the Edmund Olson Trust. Initially, I'd
<br />like to acknowledge that the staff's report is very comprehensive. We've had a chance to review
<br />it both with the Olson Trust as well as its attorney, and they both found the report as well as the
<br />proposed recommendation and the amended condition to be acceptable.
<br />I'd like to just, before responding to I think two different issues, one relating to the cemetery
<br />archaeological issue and the other one related to the roadways, but before doing so, I'd like to
<br />kind of like give the Commissioners some idea as far as the general history of the property. The
<br />property way back when and probably Mr. Replogle knows, was owned by C. Brewer. And,
<br />then at way back when I think it was in the 1990's I think, C. Brewer came up with this
<br />ambitious plan to have like about 800 residential lots encompassing this property and an
<br />adjoining property further mauka. So, they secured a State Land Use Boundary Amendment.
<br />They got the appropriate rezoning to create this residential community up in that area.
<br />Subsequently, C. Brewer sold the property to a family called the Greer Family Trust, and they
<br />wanted to not do that because developing the property according to what was at that time and
<br />thought it was, they thought it was a little bit too expensive, and so they said like no, we'll just
<br />kind of like do a little bit agricultural activities on that area. So, they went to the Land Use
<br />Commission. They had the property reclassified back to Ag, and then went to the Council,
<br />County Council, and had the land also revoked, you know, like in term of the County zoning.
<br />So, that's—that's how it came about.
<br />And, then, Mr. Olson, the Olson Trust picked up all of those properties in that area. The mauka
<br />portion is kind of like actively being farmed right now, and then this area on an intermittent basis
<br />is kind of like used for small-scale farming. So, the Olson Trust then, you know, they acquired
<br />the property in 2015, and so they said like maybe we ought to do like, like an one -acre lot
<br />subdivision because, you know, there is a potential for small-scale agriculture in that area. So,
<br />they asked me and at that time then I submitted a one -acre, you know, rezoning application in
<br />2016. It called for over this 39 -acre property, it called at that time for the creation of 29 one -plus
<br />acre sized lots in that area. The staff reviewed it, and then they said like well, you know, the
<br />General Plan, it calls for Low Density and Medium Density on the makai side, so maybe you'll
<br />guys really ought to consider a more denser type of development. And, so, I said okay, then we
<br />went back again, and then this scheme came about because the scheme came about because they
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