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you see on the bottom left, there was no failure of the bridge. But before the bridge there was a big washout. You cant even drive in the project any more. With that and having to do the waterline over and then have this big surprise, I have had discussions with the Housing people. To do this in a couple of different ways, as was mentioned earlier, there are several ways you can satisfy the housing. To do it on site, it would mean a loss of somewhere in the neighborhood of 800,000 to over 1 million dollars worth of -, even at a lower market than it was a couple of years ago. To do it off site within 15 miles sounds easy, but there is not a lot in -. The range that I was told is 89,800 dollars is an affordable finished lot. Its pretty hard to find much like that within 15 miles. I am waiting for a callback from Kohala Surety Company. The Housing people recommended that we talk to someone about purchasing credits. I appeal to you for your help. The way you can aide in preserving places like this that I see the General Plan directly speaking to for open space and scenic quality and to preserve a hill like this is not to have poles. Because power poles is the easiest way to cut corners, because HELCO tells us that you can get one or two poles for free for each house, so the speculative interest that I spoke of earlier, iftheycomein,ifthepartnershipforexamplesellsouttosomeonewhowantstocutcorners,the easiest way to satisfy something like the housing requirement is going to be to put power poles in. So because thats my passion to not have power poles, I appeal to you to help us by allowing us to continue on without the housing requirement. Thank you. GRAHAM:Thank you, Ms. Wells Fischer. Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA:Yes. I, too, have passion against power poles, and am supporting underground services and preserving viewplanes. So Im very impressed with what you are working on here and what youve been doing. Id like some clarification cause you said you were not going to be building great big houses and you werent going to putting upon the ridgeline, which is usually what great big houses like to do, and that you were going to be building smaller homes. So how does that conflict with -. Usually affordable houses are smaller houses; I dont see the conflict between one thing and the other. It seems to me like you are working in that direction anyway. Could you please explain that? FISCHER:Sure, thank you. We are not planning on building homes, but we are going to put covenants on to preserve things like the sedimentation pond areas and to be sure that there are no poles going in afterwards. We are not going to put any kind of covenants on that require certain minimum square footage. The smaller the better, is the way I look at it cause it has less visual impact on everyone. And we are trying to put the houses little tucked in places; weve already put the house sites in, and the house sites are all on the property already. And the point was not to stick houses on the top of that hill. In fact, there is a little building on that hill already, and you cant even see it in that picture and you cant see it when you are driving up Kohala Estates Road. That was always my goal to not have a monster mansion on the top of every hill. SIRACUSA:Redirect, please? GRAHAM:Commissioner Siracusa, follow-up? SIRACUSA:So you are not putting down the minimum building size in the covenants. Are you stating a maximum building size? Are you capping it? 7EXHIBIT A