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you have a back door. Because itÓs quite expensive for a developer to buy the land, go through all the process of going through the various studies necessary archeologically, and feasibility studies. And weÓve already carried this project well along because I believe so much in the project. WeÓve had the engineering well architectural well along. I canÓt say to you or anybody that this is going to get built. ItÓs my goal to build it. When I developed Mauna Lani Gardens, we took that zone, R-7.5, and we took that R-7.5 zoning and said, well, rather than do another standard subdivision with wide roads where people go faster, letÓs do a Planned Unit Development, smaller lots, smaller houses and create a neighborhood and friendly community. And I donÓt know if any of you have been up there and seen our project but if you drive through it, I think youÓll get that feeling of what we did accomplish. In developing that project, my buyer profile in there, people, many of them are retired. Some of my buyers are in their 70Ós and 80Ós; and even our small homes on the small lots are going to be too much for them. And, so, it just seemed to me that developers have to step to the plate and give the community what the community need address senior housing. People are healthier nowadays, theyÓre living longer. And, so, weÓre really excited about the project. The first step, though, is to get your support on the rezoning. As soon as we get through the process, and weÓre meeting the Burial Council th on the 20 of this month on the site and theyÓre going to do a site inspection. If they approve our burial plan and we get our zoning, weÓre going to be in a position to go forward immediately and continue our engineering-architectural design, and to create this project. Some of the issues, when you look at that map of Hualalai, this is existing Hualalai. What weÓre doing, weÓre going to be straightening it out along here. You need a good view corridor when youÓre coming out of here looking both ways. And so this road has to be relocated. We have a burial thatÓs over here so that restricts how much we can straighten the road out. But I think the civil engineer, Bruce Witcher, can tell you a little bit about that. And, so, thatÓs pretty much everything. Do you have any questions? GALDONES:Commissioners, any questions of the representative for the Applicant? YUEN:If you go ahead, when you do an independent living, is it your intention then that you would selectively market and, actually, you would restrict the buyers to older persons? Is that how you do it? COOK:Yes. We would probably restrict to age 62. This concept that we have laid out, the community center will have a dining area for people if they want to come in -. Each, around, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments far. The one-bedroom apartments are 690 square feet with a kitchen. Two-bedrooms, 980 square feet. People can eat either at home or, if they so choose, they can eat in the cafeteria-sized dining area. WeÓll have an arts and crafts, wellness center, library, a little chapel. There will be multi-faceted uses for the community cent map there above the community center, we have a nice park area w 14