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Here's some site photos. On the left, you'll see, standing at the entrance area, looking south
<br /> along Akoni Pule Highway, and then the picture on the right is looking north.
<br /> This is within the property. This is the existing Jeep road, and you can see that it's present but
<br /> difficult to traverse, but it is, crisscrosses the entire property.
<br /> I included a picture of the shoreline just to give the Commission an idea of what the shoreline
<br /> looks like in this area. This is pretty typical, very rocky, kind of overgrown. There was some
<br /> indication of trash and things along the shoreline, but that has since been worked to try to clean
<br /> up. But for the most part,this is the typical coastline along this area.
<br /> I wanted to include some of the special conditions because this project has a long history, and
<br /> there are a lot of community concerns, so I'm going to kind of touch on a few of these special
<br /> conditions that we felt at the Planning Department were important to kind of make sure that we
<br /> get out ahead of. So, this one, first, is view planes. So, the conditions that we have, "All
<br /> proposed structures will be set back a minimum of 150 feet from the highway," "all proposed
<br /> structures shall be sited 100 feet from the shoreline mauka of the ala loa/Jeep road" I'd like to
<br /> note that the applicant proposed an amendment to this, which we believe clarifies this, and they
<br /> say that"all structures shall be sited mauka of the ala loa/Jeep road, a minimum of 100 feet from
<br /> the shoreline," so that's a little more specific than the condition that we placed—and then of
<br /> course, "all proposed structures shall have a minimum[sic] height of 25 feet." They included
<br /> some designs of photographs, sorry, computer-generated pictures of what the property is, and
<br /> you can see, if you can, there is a structure, there is a structure, and then again a structure there,
<br /> kind of showing that the height restrictions would help to mitigate view plane impacts in this
<br /> area. So we have the view from the ocean on the left, and then the view plane from the highway
<br /> on the right.
<br /> The second special condition deals with the cultural resource, the cultural resources and
<br /> historical resources of the site, which are vast. We have placed a condition that requires that a
<br /> data recovery plan and preservation plan to be prepared and approved in consultation with
<br /> SHPD, and that proposes mitigation treatment for burial sites also to be approved by SHPD and
<br /> Hawaii County, Hawaii Island Burial Council, and that final data recovery plan and
<br /> preservation plan need to be submitted prior to the subdivision review and prior to any approval
<br /> for any land alteration permits. So we are really looking to have that preservation plan done,
<br /> approved and completed before this really moves forward. I included one of the sites, Site 2496,
<br /> which is just an ag mound, this is typical of what you see in that parcel. And then here is a map
<br /> of most of the identified sites, and as you can see, they stretch across the entire parcel. The blue
<br /> line is the old trail that runs through, and, I'm sorry, the Jeep road that runs through, and then
<br /> there is a coastal trail that's not shown on this map. This, too, was included as an exhibit, so you
<br /> should have a, I know it's kind of hard to see.
<br /> So the third special condition, or special issue, that we want to touch on was access, public
<br /> access to the shoreline. So, we have put a condition that prior to final subdivision approval they
<br /> have to submit, the applicant shall submit a comprehensive public access plan. That plan will
<br /> include public access pathways, parking stalls, signage, the hours of operation, night-time fishing
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