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<br />So fast forward till today I don’t know what isn’t and isn’t allowed in all these subdivisions and <br />rezoning’s and all these things. But when I look at a Google earth map, I see a lot of <br />development all around this property and many, many pieces of that development including the <br />Hawaiian Homes properties have little, tiny homes on little, tiny lots. I don’t think that looks <br />great, but I can tell you what we’ve done is going to be tastefully done, is going to be well built, <br />and it will be visually appealing. We will have lots of nice landscaping et cetera, et cetera, and I <br />think if you look at the two homes that are there now which Ms. Andrews had put up on the <br />screen. You’ll see those two homes were there on the property before and we completely rebuilt <br />them to the highest standards available and they’re totally in accord with all of the Parker Ranch <br />and other plantation style homes around that vicinity. So, we’re not building monstrosities. One <br />person came up and said nobody wants this, she hasn’t met one person who wants this <br />development. Well, I would ask Ms. Sauer if she is available to read a letter written by this other <br />person’s neighbor. Who wrote a nice letter saying he approves of the subdivision, so I’d like Ms. <br />Sauer to try to find that and if possible, put that into the record? <br /> <br />But nonetheless what we plan to do is to improve the neighborhood, create a few house lots for <br />maybe some of our employees. you know, maybe one of your employees from your entities on <br />the Big Island or in Waimea. I’ve had a lot of people ask me why can’t we find a house to rent, <br />why can’t we find that a reasonable place to buy so hopefully this will provide a few <br />opportunities for the local people and the benefits of the County are what they are. But that’s <br />about all I really need to say right now, if you guys have any questions, I’m totally open to <br />answer any of them. <br /> <br />VITOUSEK: Thank you very much. Is there any other presentation from the applicant? <br /> <br />GARSON: Chair Vitousek? Sorry, I hear an echo. Just wanted to emphasize that the area that <br />is immediately fronting Māmalahoa Highway as the Planning Department indicated in their <br />presentation, it is already SLU urban designated. It has been that way since at least the 70’s. <br />Kaupulehu Lands plans are consistent with the General Plan which has this area designated <br />medium density urban and low density urban. So, this is the exact location where you would <br />want this type of development and I wanted to address that because I’m not sure that a lot of the <br />public testifiers realize that this is an area that has been planned for this urban development. And <br />with that we are here to answer any questions and like I said, we have our Project Engineer and <br />Traffic Consultant also available to answer any questions that you have. <br /> <br />VITOUSEK: Thank you. Commissioners are there any questions for the applicant or the <br />County staff at this time? Commissioner Yates. <br /> <br />YATES: My question is based on all of what we’ve heard and hearing that there’s over 800 <br />people who are not supporting this. So, if there are that many people who are not happy about it. <br />Why would this be something that you want to move forward on and the other question I had is <br />that was that property ever part of Hawaiian Homes or not? <br /> <br />GARSON: If I can answer that question, I do not believe that that property was part of Hawaiian <br />Homes in the past. As to 800 opposition I’m sorry, we haven’t seen that many and I’m not sure <br />5 <br />EXHIBIT C <br /> <br />