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they're going to help us; if we do the housing, they'll help us through this whole project. Then
<br /> one day I get a phone call by the FBI saying, "What do you know about this project?" And from
<br /> that point on before that I had threatening phone calls towards my family, because we wouldn't
<br /> back off. I had a life investment in this thing, and I just can't walk away from a life investment.
<br /> I was promised a lot of things from the County. County would say if you would work with us
<br /> with the housing, then we'd help you with the other problems with the water and sewer. I would
<br /> like to make a couple corrections; I do have a paper from both the Water Department and the
<br /> Sewer, with the sewer for the housing, and sewer and water for the whole project. I would have
<br /> to put septic in for the store, but other than that, I do have a letter from the Department to get
<br /> both of those. So, I wanted to make that clear. A secondary thing I do have is that there is a
<br /> ten-foot right-of-way that we could always plan to make that a walkway so the public would not
<br /> have to walk on the highway; they could walk directly across with the ten-foot right-of-way right
<br /> onto a sidewalk, and cutting that whole time away walking all the way around that whole thing.
<br /> But there's a ten-foot easement that we're planning the sidewalk and walk it right to a sidewalk.
<br /> That's been with our plan with our, when we were going do this. But the main thing is that the
<br /> County came to us, County employees, sat down with County employees, and told us that they
<br /> were going to work with us. So, I purchased that property based on County employees telling
<br /> me that I was going to be able to do this. And then, all of a sudden, they get fired and
<br /> disappeared. And I'm, then, I'm standing alone. I had been told to maybe contact somebody
<br /> and see if they could help you out, and I contacted Zendo. And he has brought us to this point
<br /> right now. But we didn't come to you guys; the County came to us with this project and then
<br /> walked away from us and left us high and dry. That's all I have to say.
<br /> KERN: Thank you, Mr. Julkowski. So, as I was saying, there's a lot of back story to this, a lot
<br /> of complications to this. It's pretty, a sad, sad situation, honestly. My goal and hope
<br /> professionally was to try to complete the project in a manner that was originally represented. At
<br /> the - - - Mr. Julkowski has been more than willing to do that. I mean if this was in maybe a
<br /> different location, again, half a mile up the street, I would not be involved, but how it does round
<br /> out a commercial section of that area, it does seem logical based on the other elements that we
<br /> had already discussed. It's, it's on the verge, it's right there in, in the gray area of meeting the
<br /> criteria and not; there are certain components of the CDP that it does meet as far as affordable
<br /> housing and economic opportunities. Certainly, there is also an EIS done on the entire property
<br /> that there was no significant impacts, no major issues. So, you know, overall, the project is
<br /> poised for that. I think it's, I do think it's important to look at this. I do think that when it goes
<br /> to Council, there's going to be a lot of discussion, a lot of debate. I'm interested to hear the
<br /> Commission's side on this. But when somebody in this, in this capacity gets handed a project
<br /> like this, and they pay 1.5 million dollars for a property that it gets, when it's green lit to do
<br /> something that they were told to be done, and the rug gets pulled out from underneath their feet,
<br /> that's pretty a sad day. And so, we're not saying that because, you know,just think you should
<br /> just rubber stamp it, but I think it does take some serious consideration. It should be considered,
<br /> as well as the other land use elements that this project actually does meet. Again, CV zoning
<br /> right to the makai side of it, CV zoning across the street, CV zoning in an area that has a LUPAG
<br /> Map of EA. How does that vary and how does that differ from this project? And we're not
<br /> asking for any special exemptions. And we're also going to be, we're going to be doing
<br /> affordable housing, and if we can get this through,then Mr. Julkowski will also have a hardware
<br /> store, which will offer another level of needed service in that area. So overall, I think it actually
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