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NEWBERG: Thank you, Madam Chair. I apologize, I think I might have stepped into the
<br /> meeting a few minutes late there. I don't think this would fall into a Board of Ethics issue, but
<br /> just on a clarity, I did meet with Boe Greene with Diamond Resorts when they were at the Kailua
<br /> Village [Design Commission] presentation for their design, but have had no communications
<br /> with him since. I just wanted to make that as a disclaimer.
<br /> My issue, one, to echo Commissioner Vitousek's, you know, seemingly maybe a submission on
<br /> a project plan that far exceeded their budget, for myself, seeing that original plan that looked
<br /> very high-end for the area here on Alii Drive, and, you know, obviously, there is going to be
<br /> something resubmitted. My hope with that design thought in process they were proposing could
<br /> possibly create a renaissance of Alii Drive, you know, to kind of bring it back to the lost or what
<br /> it once was back in the 70's when it was a newer resort area.
<br /> With all those things said, I would like to hear more about the site plan. It may be proved to be,
<br /> might be a little bit early for that, but my concern is, in looking at the site, the location and the
<br /> issues that it has had (indiscernible–noise) to go through and most likely have to demo,
<br /> demolish what is existing, and then within the current plan of hopefully having a safe and hard
<br /> barrier that would be lit and possibly with security,proceeding into construction. I don't see
<br /> that's my only concern with this area, you know, listening to the complaints and concerns, and
<br /> then also looking at as a, as a process through construction. Looking at the elevations from street
<br /> level to the top of existing concrete, you know—it's four blocks away from where I currently
<br /> am—and it's logistically difficult. So, you know, besides the concern of submitting a- - -
<br /> (At
<br /> - -(At this time, around 2:50 p.m., there was an internet connectivity issue in the area where the
<br /> WebEx host was located, which disrupted the YouTube live-streaming and recording for
<br /> approximately eight minutes.)
<br /> LEY: - - -we lost feed, had to like restart—
<br /> CARR
<br /> estartCARR SMITH: Okay
<br /> LEY: YouTube stream, so if anybody was watching, they are going to have to reconnect- - -
<br /> they reconnect. If they just, you know, refresh their browser, it will come back up.
<br /> CARR SMITH: Okay. Thanks, everyone, for your patience. I guess this is as good a time as
<br /> any for me to ask the commissioners a question here. So you can see on our screen, we have
<br /> Wendy Reinoehl; Wendy was, evidently she signed up for, to be a testifier and she signed up in
<br /> time, but she just got missed by accident from getting put on the list. I don't believe she was on
<br /> this morning, because I didn't, I don't remember seeing her name and I did ask if there were any
<br /> testifiers that I missed, and nobody spoke up; however, she is here, it's this agenda item. And so
<br /> it's up to you guys if you want to open public testimony to hear Wendy. Go ahead, Mike.
<br /> VITOUSEK: I move to reopen public testimony to allow Wendy Reinoehl the opportunity to
<br /> provide her three minutes of public testimony.
<br /> CARR SMITH: Okay, very good.
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