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manager, and consultants Glenn Kimura from Kimura International, and they are our planners, and Jimmy Yamamoto with R.M. Towill, our project engineers, one of our project engineers, and also Bob Miyasato, here to respond to any kind of economic questions that you may have. And I'd like to call on Mr. Yamashiro at this point to provide a brief overview. FUJIKAWA:Okay, Mr. Yamashiro, come forward, please. Mr. Yamashiro, can you come up forward so I can swear you in. Oh, that's fine. Could you raise your right hand. To ` tell the truth on this matter now before the Hawaii Planning Commission? YAMASHIRO:I do. FUJIKAWA:State your name and address. YAMASHIRO:Stephen K. Yamashiro, P. O. Box 626, Hilo 96721. FUJIKAWA:Thank you. You may proceed. YAMASHIRO:Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and Commissioners. The University Terrace Project is planned as a mixed use community incorporating design concepts intended to promote a more livable pedestrian friendly community, and this is designed to enhance and ` support the growth of the educational complex surrounded around the University of Hawaii at Hilo. If we look at this map here, the project site is in here. This is the Mohouli Extension. The planned Federal Pacific Basin Agricultural Center is in this area, along with the U.S. Forestry Service. The balance of this parcel is designated for the community college. The University ` of Hawaii-Hilo occupies the land below Komohana, with the tech park in this area, and the ground facilities for all of the astronomy facilities. We are looking at an educational complex at grow-out would probably have seven to 10,000 people within their community. The project, as envisioned, will provide residential opportunities and service to support this population in a manner which will minimize the need to travel outside the community for goods, services, and entertainment. As presently zoned, the project has approximately 160 residential units, five acres of commercial, and 45 acres of open space. The proposed request will increase the impacts on the community and the developers are willing to pay their fair share of those impacts as a result of this project. It is important that the impacts be identified and the costs be determined so that all present and future developments pay their fair share. All improvements will be placed in the time that they are needed. We thank the Staff for their thorough review of the project, and I would, with the foregoing statement, would like to address some of the conditions that were stated. Condition C, the University Terrace Project shall consist of not more than 172 acres of single-family and multi- 6