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HARRIS:Im going to turn this map on its side. These 2 exhibits are the main exhibits of, the bigger project area, this being Kaahumanu Highway, this being the bottom of Makalei Estates on the top. This green area here in this alignment is the dry land, very good dry land forest on our land. And the boundaries are set by our main botanical consultant, Dr. Patrick Hart. And he estimated that about 65 acres and then when we. And then we went out and flagged the fire break and the intermediate protection you know and with Dr. Hart and then cut it in and then we had it surveyed and thats when it came out to equal 55 years approximately. We still got you know, its, so its going to be somewhere around 55, 60 acres. And there are some trees down in here as well as other isolated endangered trees that will be protected in what we call the incremental, I mean the integrated management plan. But the, on the map theyre called the preserve area or the no development area. There are certain archaeological sites and interesting caves particularly on the site. So thats the, and in the reports its described as about 177 acres. The road system, the big, the big point youre talking about is how to, how to make the corner at the bottom of Makalei Estates come in and miss the forests and still be driveable. Andtheresbeennumerousengineeringdiscussionbutbasicallyitlookslikewevegotawayto slow everybody way down but not come to a complete stop and then make a corner that misses the forest. And, there is a Halapepe tree right below that which we, which is listed endangered and under State law cant be moved at all so weve gotta, weve gotta deal with that. The other story on the forest and the region is at the Land Use Commission up where the forest area and the mauka these blue lines here the K to K roads. This one is the most mauka one that comes into section 5. And the whole idea there was over a couple of years to try and pull that road up to where Makalei Golf Course road is on Mamalahoa Highway so we didnt have to go up Makalei Drive every time. We did a botanical survey together with the neighbor, the neighbor who bought the Makalei Country Club recently and found that our dry land forest here extended the same good quality out into that land. Thats what drove us down here to road 4 and thats why the, you could say a little bit of a goofy situation but to summarize the road network and the K to K plan is based on getting from Queen Kaahumanu Highway without aggravating the situation at the airport intersection and a lot of back and forth for the State traffic engineers and our engineers essentially deciding that putting it at the north, 1 mile north was the best solution. At some time in the future the State may build a grade separated interchange near the airport. But it seems to be a bit off and turning that light into a four-way at this time they said would aggravate things worse. So, they can synchronize these 2 lights and the conclusion is it would be better if earlier. Secondly is the Director indicated you can get up into what we call a village center here. This is kind of a destination of our project. And at that point youll be able to walk back and forth to the future University Community College at West Hawaii Center that will start on this 500 acres adjacent to the infrastructure that were stubbing out here. That was, thats a huge basis for the kind of support weve had for this project. And we intend to agree to build with the University a, some rental space so they can move from where they are now, there rental down to here and get started until they build their own land. Thats going very well and the traffic related improvement would be extending from our road 1 down to Kaiminani, which puts you at another signalized intersection off Queen Kaahumanu Highway, allows to go mauka and as the Director indicated it gets us a little closer to Costco. And you know that were going to solve the link from Hina Lani essentially up to Palani Road. Thats the most hope we have for the K to K parallel system. And the big problem is, he pointed out, is the link across the State land here. Someday there will be a link up here and as the University grows therell be you know linkage here that feeds into this future four. Dont mean to be too confusing, thats kind of EXHIBIT H 10