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The Department of Public Works has recently asked that a change be made to Condition I on both this application as well as the Puaa. And that is that Condition I, after the word provided on the third line, that the words on Kuakini Highway be added. So it would say, right turn deceleration shall be provided on Kuakini Highway at the Easement 1 access. And that would be, again, on Suffolk condition, as well as Puaa condition. This concludes the presentation. Are there any questions? SPRINGER:Commissioners? Commissioner Graham? GRAHAM:Jeff, maybe this question is more to Mr. Takemoto than yourself. But in regards to whether the County should be processing these applications, I know in our Background material we have a letter from the Land Use Commission and reading, th. directed to Planning Director Chris Yuen on October 20And in that letter, Land Use Commission says, While we dont have specific objections, we do have strong objections to the manner in which these applications are being processed. We believe that both the Village Center and the rental housing project are part of the same Pualani Makai master planned community and had been deliberately incrementalized to evade the jurisdiction of the Land Use Commission. So I would question Mr. Takemoto about what the Planning Departments discretion is as to whether we take these up or not and why they made the decision to go ahead and recommend approval at the County level for these two applications. TAKEMOTO:The Director, subsequent to the Land Use Commissions letter, had been in touch with the Executive Director of the Land Use Commission and, basically, there were two conditions that he wanted us to establish before agreeing to what were doing. One is that we have confirmed that these are, in fact, separate owners and that this whole developmentwasnot,youknow,some,whatyoucall,therewasntarelationship between the two developers. So, on that point, the Director did check them out and confirmed that they are independent and separate. The second point is that between the Land Use Commission and the County is just a matter of whos making the decisions. The issues and criteria concerns in terms of public interest are the same. So, for the Land Use Commission, they just wanted to make sure that the cumulative impacts of the two projects were being considered, cause that is what actually would occur if these lots went before the Land Use Commission together, as basically youll be looking at the impacts of both projects at one time. And we feel that we are addressing the cumulative impacts of the projects. GRAHAM:Thank you. SPRINGER:Other Commissioners? Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA:Im having trouble with these maps, of putting these all together. This section, in the upper left-hand corner, is what youre showing us for the Suffolk. 5