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property again is the HELCO property. The maps indicate the various zoning designation. The makai portion of the property indicated at this elevation to Queen Kaahumanu Highway is currently zoned open and that basically followed the previous conservation line for this area. This particular area indicated in blue that extends to the Makalei Estates subdivision is zoned Agricultural 3 acre. And later on well be hearing about ordinance number 93-45 . This particular area in blue was also a part of that ordinance that including the Makalei Estates subdivision. As far as the specifics regarding the project Id like to defer that to the applicant however based on their submittal they indicated that they would be providing 519 single family units, 255 multiple residential units, commericial spaces for medical office, retail, classrooms and health related uses. There will also be a 120 room University Village Inn. Also proposed is an 18 hole golf course. And the applicant indicated that their golf course will be developed according to the Audubon International Signature Silver Program Standards. There will be active and passive parks including a dry land forest and if I may refer to this particular map. The dry land forest is located at this location which is mainly makai of the Makalei Estates Subdivisionandonthenortheasterncornerofthesubjectproperty.Thatparticularareaconsists of approximately 55 plus acres or thereabouts. As part of the development the applicant also proposes to provide a minimum of 100 affordable housing units on the property. A current plan right now is to add 50 rental units and 50 fee units. The development will occur in 3 phases over a period of 10 years and the first phase will consist of the infrastructure development. The second would be residential development and the third increment would consist of the multiple family residential and commercial developments. As part of the requests of this project district the applicant is also requesting some certain code deviations and these deviations would be related to the size of some of the lots in the residential areas also the variances from setback and road requirements. And these are all spelled out in the exhibit 2, Planning Department Exhibit 2. The overall cost of development according to the applicants estimate is 300 million dollars. This project will also at the end employ or create approximately 1800 jobs. The land use designation for the subject property, the general plan designation is urban expansion area and the state land use classification is urban. The applicant did receive or petition the land use commission to reclassify the property that was previously in conservation and that would be this particular area. And this particular area which is, which was within the state land use agricultural district into the urban district. And that reclassification was approved by the Land Use Commission in May of 2005. As far as the water availability, the applicant will be working and is continue to work with the Department of Water Supply in providing water for this particular project. The wastewater system will be private. Access will be from Queen Kaahumanu Highway at this particular location. We did receive several letters from members of the public. First of all from the Makalei Estates Community Association by Jerry Schneyer who is the President and a basic concern would be the roadway, mauka-makai roadway and the size of the existing Makalei Drive. We also received a letter from Allen and Ann Abaya who also expressed concern regarding the Makalei Drive as becoming the mauka-makai connection to the Queen, from this project to the Highway 190. Stephen Lopez also submitted a letter which expressed the same concern. As well as from David and Carol Ann Kwait I believe regarding the mauka-makai access. We also received a letter from Robert Ward who also expressed some concerns relative to traffic and access. The University of Hawaii Community College Chancellor Rockne Freitas submitted a letter in support of the request, as well as the Hawaii Island Economic Development Board signed by Mark McGuffie. Ill just briefly go over some of the, highlight some of the conditions that are proposed for this particular request. All of you EXHIBIT H 3