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The way that its laid out also allows convenient access for people whowant to just get in their car, buy, get their products and leave, but it also would encourage people to stay and hopefully become more of a, what I would call a small town center versus just a very quick shopping experience. So, in summary, theres a number of devices that we would use architecturally. I think the landscaping is very important, the development of the streets to be pedestrian- oriented, street trees, traditional lighting fixtures; and, hopefully, this would look more like some of our most, or nice shopping areas here on the Big Island versus some of the more suburban sprawl type projects. Thank you. SPRINGER:Commissioners, any questions for the architect? Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA:Imatreepersonso,ofcourse,myfirstquestionaboutthisis going to be -. I see you have a lot of trees marked on here. I assume theyre shade trees, or maybe not. Maybe I should ask that as a question. RIEHM:I hope they are. SIRACUSA:I hope so because I always look for the tree in the parking lot to park under. I dont like my car to heat up, and I know a lot of other people feel that way, too. So Im wondering what types of trees you had in mind for this and whether their canopies would be consistent with their root systems in terms of, you know, affecting the paving. RIEHM:Well, let me just preface this by saying that Im not a landscape architect so I couldnt tell you exactly what type of trees that we would use. But the landscaping is a very critical thing, especially for large paved areas. These definitely would be done as canopy trees or shade trees. For example, my favorite, one of my favorite parking lots on the island is the Prince Kuhio Mall in Hilo with the beautiful monkeypod trees. Now, a lot of people have problems with monkeypod but there are ways to mitigate their tree growth. So other projects that I think are remarkable are what they did on Oahu with the Mililani project with all those beautiful monkeypods that they had planted in their town center. So I think an integral part of this would be not only the shade trees in the parking lot but, most importantly, the trees that we would be using along our main street to create that pedestrian atmosphere. The type of tree, I dont know. I mean, that would be up to the landscape architect for the project. SPRINGER:Thank you. Any follow-up questions, Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA:No. Thank you. SPRINGER:Commissioner McCall? 12