2020-02-20 Leeward Exh D (AMEND REZ 2004-024 & AMEND REZ 2004-025)

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So back in late 2004 and 2005, Puaa and Suffolk had nothing to do with the creation of the subdivision. It was already there. It was created by a company called Westpro. And then they acquired, Puaa acquired the properties. So Puaa came in with this idea, largely Brian's idea, to create like a shopping complex in that particular area. Suffolk, because of Schuler's interest in housing, also wanted to do a housing project. So basically, they collaborated. They had like this architect designer, local architect, his name is Michael Riehm, to kind of like do a, you know, do a master plan for those two projects. So Puaa's plan way back when, as the staff had indicated, called for, you know, a shopping complex, a 95,000-square foot shopping complex. He also had proposed a 100-plus-or-minus-unit affordable housing, not affordable, housing project on this site. As far as the access, if I can now direct you to Figure 1, so Figure 1 basically shows what the original project was for Puaa. You can see the 19,000-square foot subdivision, excuse me, the village commercial area. There was a gas station, and at the Puapua`anui intersection that was going to be signalized. And there was going to be like a frontage road eventually leading up to the south end. At the south end it would be like a right-in-right-out kind of movements. These two intersections at the State highway have already been approved in terms of access location by the State Department of Transportation. The roadway configuration, as you can see in the Figure 1, you know, it's exactly as how the land was ultimately subdivided, and that right-of-way is a 60-foot wide right-of-way that would eventually connect Kuakini Highway to the Queen Ka`ahumanu Highway extension. Suffolk's plan, as you can see in that Figure 2, was essentially to try to create a 250-unit affordable rental housing, and this was going to be exclusively a rental housing project in that they were going to have a small little one-plus-or-minus-acre private passive park area. Of interest, however, what I wanted to point out also, it's found on Figures 1 and 2, you can see those areas that's outside of the subject property; these are like the archaeological preserved areas that are not within the subject area but there was an approved archaeological inventory survey done, and when Mr. Riehm did the overall master plan, he used that as a development constrain to identify where these features are, you know, kind of like a no-build zone. But this is just more like for your information. Now, back in 2005 the Planning Director did recommend that both of these projects be favorably considered. And what they did recommend at that time was that these properties already had like 50 affordable housing credit assigned to the site, so the Director's recommendation was saying, look, you know, housing is important, you are not going to use any of the, any of your existing credit to address the affordable credit requirements, you know, for this project, and also no in-lieu fee, and whatever obligation you have for housing, it has to be built on site. So the applicants, both applicants said, yes, we will comply with that requirement. So the County Council finally approved both zone change in August of 2005. When the Council considered their request, they said like, oh, maybe you guys want to have like a five-acre, you know, you want to set aside an area for school since you guys own the property on the makai side. And so Mr. Cook at that time said, fine, we will dedicate a five-acre site for a school site. But what the Council's condition required was that, okay, before it gets officially dedicated to 12 EXHIBIT D