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LINGER: Aloha. Have you had a chance to review the recommendation from the Planning
<br /> Department, and do you agree with the conditions imposed?
<br /> MOOERS: Yes, I have had that opportunity to review and discuss with staff. We agree with the
<br /> conditions as proposed. My role in the project is I'm the land planner. I prepared the
<br /> applications. Dr. Ron Terry prepared the Environmental Assessment and coordinated all of the
<br /> studies that were done. And Dr. Bob Rechtman is responsible for the archaeological and cultural
<br /> resource evaluation for the project. So, any questions you have, hopefully, we can, we can
<br /> handle.
<br /> This project has an extensive history, which I would like to take a few moments to go through to
<br /> maybe help you understand where we are and what we've been through. When my client,
<br /> Dr. Myhrvold, acquired the property, the property was zoned RS-15 and had an SMA approved
<br /> for 50 lots. That project was obviously significantly different than what you see today. The
<br /> [displaying a site plan for the SO-lot subdivision] I know this is a small map, but I think you get
<br /> the idea—for the 50-lot subdivision, what this meant was that the entire site was going to be
<br /> bulldozed and there would be 15,000 square feet lots throughout the entire property. It has long
<br /> been believed that that's not an appropriate use of this property, given the resources. We did
<br /> prepare a draft environmental assessment for a nine-lot alternative that was processed by
<br /> Dr. Terry in 2015. We received significant comments from agencies and also from the
<br /> community, groups we met with, and we have tried to respond to those comments with the latest
<br /> proposed development—Ron, could you hold that up, or Bob? What they are holding up is a site
<br /> plan for the project, and what that represents, obviously the—yeah, show to the Commissioners,
<br /> they are the ones who make the decision the border across the highway is a 150-foot buffer in
<br /> yellow. And if you notice the buffer down below that we say it's a minimum of 100 feet, you
<br /> see how much bigger that is than the 150 feet above the highway. The orange line that traverses
<br /> is the Jeep trail, which is also being, assessed as being the ala loa, all right? The little orange line
<br /> along the coast is a six-foot wideor, is it six- or ten-foot wideI think six-foot wide trail that
<br /> Tom Gentry, when he owned the property, was required to record. So, you can see that all of
<br /> those areas in yellow will not be developed, all right? So, setting back everything above the
<br /> highway, everything above, has to be above a 40-foot elevation, and everything is a minimum of
<br /> 100 feet from the shoreline, and a minimum of 150 feet.
<br /> Now, I bring the trails issue up because this side is a little bit different than those; these trails are
<br /> not owned by the State of Hawaii. In 1935 these trails were traded with the landowner, Kahua
<br /> Ranch, in exchange for the alignment for the Kohala Mountain Road. So, we have abstracts
<br /> from the State in which they clearly state that they don't claim ownership of any of these trails.
<br /> So, I think that's why the previous 50-lot configuration, they felt like they could get rid of the
<br /> trails. But we've been told, and we agree, the fact that these trail, particularly the ala loa, is a
<br /> historic site; it has a site number, and it will be preserved. The comments we received from
<br /> agencies, particularly Na Ala Hele, and Ala Kahakai, the federal trails group, was that this trail
<br /> was significant and should be preserved. The community repeatedly told us they didn't want us
<br /> to drive across this Jeep trail even though they'd been driving on it for the last 80 years. So, we
<br /> are not proposing any breach of the trail, all right?
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