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affordable housing conditions in the 1990s or early 2000s period. If you want to have
<br />affordable, so the end result is if we want to have affordable housing in West Hawaii you have to
<br />rezone sites to have that be done and put the conditions on that and stick to those conditions. As
<br />far as the sites that are already zoned and are being developed, because you have a big demand
<br />and you have a big market to sell to second home buyers, people moving from other locations in
<br />the United States, the market tends to develop for that group of people. You can sell a house.
<br />The median sales price for last year in north Kona for a single family home is $620,000. Well,
<br />theres a market and people, people are buying them. So theres a market that will buy a
<br />$600,000 house. So, from the developers point of view if you already have zoning and youre
<br />doing a housing project, if you can sell a $600,000 house why are you going to make a $250,000
<br />house and sell it. Theres just no reason to do that, no incentive to do it. So we have to have, we
<br />have to accept having sites that were going to have to zone in Kona to have housing if we want
<br />to get people, if we want people to be able to live here. The traffic aspect and-. The traffic
<br />aspect, housing for people for-, and by and large the people that are going to be attracted to a
<br />projectlikethisarepeoplewhohavejobsinthearea,whonowcommutefromlongdistances
<br />elsewhere. And there are many people who are like this, who would like to live closer to where
<br />their employment is. Who cant, who would like to take a job in Kailua-Kona for example who
<br />cant take a job there because they cant find a place to live. So, by not, the effect on traffic is
<br />that by not having housing for people near where their jobs are youre forcing people to
<br />commute a long distance. Youre forcing people to live in Ocean View, to live in Honokaa, to
<br />live even farther away and drive on exactly the same roads that everybody else, and for longer
<br />distances. So youre not solving the traffic problem by choking off housing within the Kailua
<br />Kona area. Now this, turning to this site in as, turning to this site in particular, you cant just
<br />stop there and say well we have to have housing and so were going to approve this. You always
<br />have to look at the site in question. This is a very good site for housing. There are 2 issues with
<br />the site and there are always problems with any site. And the 2 issues with the site are the
<br />drainage way on one side, the Waiaha drainage way. Weve handled that with conditions of
<br />zoning they can stay out of the drainage way and develop this site. And the other one and the
<br />bigger one that was a concern to Public Works was the fact that the Alii Parkway or Kahului,
<br />Keauhou Parkway is supposed to run on one side of the site. Now, we have to, you have to
<br />understand too the Parkway, the right of way, is not-, has not ever been acquired by the County.
<br />This is on the-, what were showing there is and what were saying to be dedicated is currently
<br />you know on the private property. But it does, there is a complication to the fact that a major
<br />highway, youre going to put housing in there and then at some later date a major highway is
<br />going to go alongside. So what, and I do believe that in the conditions weve handled that, all of
<br />the, all the issues associated with that. How the, and theres going to have to be a change in how
<br />the access is done once that goes in there. And, we can go through that in a lot of detail but it is
<br />a workable situation to have this housing go in there and its not, its a little. To me its a little
<br />unfair to tell a landowner that were going to, someday were going to build a highway through
<br />your property that we havent acquired yet, we havent funded yet, weve never acquired right of
<br />way but were going to hold your zoning until we do that. I mean were going to keep you say in
<br />the current Ag-5a zoning until such time the County wants to, is ready to build this highway. So
<br />rather than in effect putting a moratorium on their property were trying to work with the
<br />landowner in accommodating-. The fact that its very important that this road go through there
<br />at some point in the future and, but without saying that youre on hold with everything until we
<br />put the road in there and then come talk. So, and then the final thing Id like to say is that while
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