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The other thing that came up as a major concern was the effect of runoff onto Waiakailio Bay of
<br /> development above that. And so what we've done is, if you notice, there's only one small road
<br /> on the property. That's a cul-de-sac on the north and that's directly below the Kohala Mountain
<br /> Road, and it swings into the property and then adjacent to the highway. There are no other roads
<br /> on the project. Access will be generated to each lot by a driveway, which will be permeable and
<br /> not have to be developed as a roadway, with 40-foot right-of-way, particular grades, curvatures,
<br /> things like that,that would all generate runoff that we have to be concerned with. So, we
<br /> purposely eliminated as many roads as we can. On the south there are two lots that access will
<br /> basically just be from a joint driveway onto the highway. Those are two permitted access from
<br /> Department of Transportation.
<br /> We've tried to address all of the concerns that the community has given to the project. But some
<br /> of those concerns are contrary. And I think Toni Withington is here today; she has kind of talked
<br /> about desire for vehicular access. And I think that's important to discuss, because that request,
<br /> which does appear in the CDP, the North Kohala CDP, they talk about an existing Jeep trail that
<br /> ran down from the entrance, our northern entrance, down toward Waiakailio Bay.
<br /> Unfortunately, that trail is at over a 20-percent slope, all right, far too steep for the County to
<br /> accept. In order to generate a roadway to the shoreline, it would have to look something like
<br /> this, in which we would have to have switchbacks, and the orange areas would represent
<br /> retaining walls and massive grading. One of the things that we've tried to do with the project
<br /> that you've noticed in the application on Page 4, we mention that we are trying to follow the
<br /> coastal zone management low impact design guidelines, and those guidelines specifically state
<br /> that one is we should limit the amount of site disturbance, so we try to do that by not having
<br /> massive roadways, by not grading the entire site as the 50-lot configuration envisioned. The
<br /> second thing is to try, take it to a less engineered approach to site grading, by that it means
<br /> follow the natural terrain and not have retaining walls, flat building sites that you see in a lot of
<br /> developments, because that disturbs a lot of natural vegetation, increases impervious surface,
<br /> increases runoff. The third thing is to maximize percolation, and we are trying to do that by
<br /> eliminating the roads and having impervious, or having percolating surfaces that we can use for
<br /> driveways down instead of putting roadways throughout the project site. And then the last thing
<br /> is alternative approaches to slope retention and stabilization. And if you look at the best
<br /> management practices that we have listed in the application, you'll see we are proposing a
<br /> significant number of issues to address drainage, runoff, and to eliminate the impacts to the
<br /> coastal area.
<br /> So, in sum, I think we've tried over several iterations to this project to minimize impacts to the
<br /> both cultural, historical and also archaeological features but also natural resources to preserve the
<br /> impacts, or to mitigate impacts to the shoreline in that area. So, frankly, I'm really proud of the
<br /> owner agreeing to do what he's done; to go from 15,000-square foot lots to five-area lots, I think,
<br /> is a pretty significant concession on his part.
<br /> Anyway, I'm prepared, and Dr. Terry and Dr. Rechtman are prepared, to answer any questions,
<br /> which you may have about the application or the project or the studies that we've done in
<br /> preparation for this.
<br /> UNGER: Great,thank you. Commissioners, open for questions?
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