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told is approximately 49 acres that's going to be kept open for green space, possibly jogging
<br />and biking areas with, and I do stress this, it's been told to us, with possible future
<br />development but currently they're looking at keeping it open, that's the current flood area.
<br />We've asked, I've asked specifically a couple of times, and I asked of the representative that
<br />came over from Honolulu for one of the meetings, what flood plan were they working with,
<br />because my understanding, and I may be wrong, that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has
<br />not completed the study that they started after the 2000 storm. And my big concern would be
<br />that this is sent on to the County Council with this Commission's approval without the most
<br />accurate flood plain plan available. If you look at the area where they're talking of developing
<br />residential homes above the flood plain, the flood plan area, once you start putting asphalt i
<br />for streets and building sites in and you start taking away the drainage area, got a major
<br />concern of where that run-off, the added run-off coming into the stream would be immediately
<br />there and then down below the Sunrise Ridge Subdivision to the lower part of town.
<br />I've got a extreme concern with the statement that was made of the possibility of a 10-foot -,
<br />story commercial development on the site. Now I do -, I listen to the comments that there's
<br />going to be height limits requirements of 45 feet, 40 feet for commercial, and 35 feet for
<br />residential. In a bizarre scenario, they're talking of possibly doing 350,000 square feet of
<br />commercial space. Now if that commercial space at 350,000 square feet, if some future
<br />developer wants to spend the money, they could put that amount of space up to 40 feet high.
<br />That would be probably four stories, I don't know, maybe only three, they might only be able
<br />to get away with three, but they could literally go up that way if the approval to go from the
<br />size of commercial development that it's currently zoned at to this area, and all it would take
<br />would be a developer with money.
<br />A personal concern that I've got, and it's been expressed by a lot of residents in my
<br />subdivision and in the Sunrise Ridge Subdivision and in Crescent City and Punahele and Lower
<br />Kamana, is the fact that the current owners and the developers, they do not have a definite
<br />development plan for actually doing this. They would like to get the zoning changes done.
<br />They want to get it changed from Ag-1 with some, and I'm not even sure how many existing
<br />RS-7.5 areas are approved on it or -, and it says there's currently one acre of RS-10, which is
<br />10,000 square foot, but they want to change it, get the approval for the zoning to happen. It
<br />has been stated that the current owners may do the commercial development, but they're not
<br />really even sure about that. We, in the community and, personally, I've never seen anything
<br />other than this is what they'd like to do but there's no plans. I've asked if they're going to try
<br />to get, or if the County would allow zero lot line development, which has happened on the
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<br />Ewa plain of Oahu, where you have back-to-back properties so that the green space is on the
<br />outside. You can get a whole lot of people into a small area of development if you do it that -,
<br />if that way's done. There's a concern about that. It has been stated by a representative of the
<br />development team at one meeting that they were looking at a minimum of 600 residential units.
<br />I don't know if it's going to be a minimum or maximum now, but I'm concerned of the
<br />density, and I go, I'll go back to that of the traffic, the impact on the schools, just general air
<br />pollution change.
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