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up there. And I guess my concern; my interest or concern is what is the State Historic Preservation Division trying to do. Where do we aim? What are we aiming for when we do these set-asides? Are we aiming kind of in a museum way to just put certain stuff that will stay there that people can come and examine it in the future and so were not losing some history thats already there? Or are we trying to do anything more than that? Are we trying to maintain any integrity of this community? Are we trying to look forward to some use that doesnt much seem to be going on now but may go on in the future? I really have never seen written down really well or spoken really well just what it is were trying to do. Maybe the Planning Director can offer up a few of his thoughts. YUEN:Yeah I think Im familiar enough with what they do to say that theyre looking, they have to look at these applications as they come in. There isnt an overall historic preservation requirement over a region so when the application comes in they have a review and comment function. They, when they have their site significance criteria in this case the sites were considered significant. One of them is believed to be a possible heiau and other burials and one site is an example of a walled compound. In other words a little, probably a house area but with a wall completely around it and they didnt want to see the wall breached. They do feel that in making the recommendations they have to be reasonable to that. So, if they require complete preservation of the Alii Drive frontage in effect theyre blocking off the property. And then if you get from, I mean if you (inaudible) from southside then you have to cross the Judd Trail so it becomes you know all these things become very difficult. But as far as what theyre trying to accomplish theyre trying to accomplish the physical preservation of the sites that are on this property so that they are, so that they are preserved. I dont how much interpretation, signage and the like theyre looking for on this. I dont think there was much if anything in the preservation plan. As far as the overall context I can tell you cause weve looked at this area before. If you look at the page facing that to the left. The page-facing figure 4 is figure 3 location of the subject property on a TMK map. Immediately across the street on the makai side of Alii Drive you have a big area that was a subdivision that was largely bulldozed. The whole, the whole general area was a very rich and very important settlement area in Old Hawaii that is sometimes called the Holualoa Royal Center. But immediately across the street everything is pretty much gone. On the, across the street on the north side is the State Historic Park at Keolanahihi where there is still a lot of archaeological features. And then you cant see it quite on this map but just a little bit to the north again on the mauka side of Alii Drive theres the Blasman property that was just purchased. And the Blasman property, I think theres another figure in the back that we can look at. If you turn back to this map figure 2 about 10 pages farther on. That shows, it says 774 in the corner, where it says 12 across the street where it says 12 and 51 and 52 those are all part of the, those are all the State Park. On the mauka side of Alii Drive where it says 26 thats the Blasman property thats recently been purchased by the State for a park addition. Where it says 11 is Keakealaniwahine complex which was purchased actually donated to the State several years ago and its a huge walled complex in there. Where it says97isthePukobopropertywhichiscurrentlyzonedAg5doeshavequiteafew archaeological sites. And where it says plat 24 is that subdivision that was, where it was bulldozed.Sothatsthe,thatsthecontextaroundit. EXHIBIT 16