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this is the right use for the property. In this case what is being proposed as far as the 5-acre
<br />zoning is, it’s low density urban. It’s very low density, but it is -, we are not saying that it should
<br />be Agriculture; it’s a very low density urban development.
<br />So then, let me just discuss a couple of things. This specifically relates to the SMA permit,
<br />which certainly we urge you to revoke the current SMA permit and not to adopt a 25-lot SMA
<br />permit as -, or extend time and allow a 25-lot SMA permit. To really talk about this, let me ask
<br />you to look at that March 4, 1998 (sic), letter and then turn to, there is a map with the
<br />archeological sites on it, and that’s page 4 on the Burial Treatment Plan, PHRI report. And you
<br />see the – yes, Chairman, you have the page there – and so we have a map that -, and the reason
<br />I’m asking you to look at this map is for two things. One is that it’s a pretty good map showing
<br />the topography. And it also shows the archaeological sites. The map has a label “Burial
<br />Treatment Plan” on the bottom. And my basic point here is that there’re -, you’re being asked to
<br />approve an SMA permit for a property that has a lot of difficulties in developing it, a lot of
<br />challenges. I have a question. They may be able to get 25 lots into this property; I don’t think
<br />that they could have even gotten 50 lots into this property. But you’re being asked to approve an
<br />SMA permit with no knowledge of how this subdivision is going to be laid out. How are they
<br />treating any of these issues that I’m going to talk about in a minute? And how are they actually
<br />going to -, where the houses are going to be? And how are they going to handle -, how are they
<br />actually going to handle this subdivision?
<br />Now, first thing I, just in passing, I’d like you to notice is the big portion of the property that
<br />says Undeveloped Area, and just to note that at one time the owner was telling SHPD that they
<br />were going to do one house on the property, and leave the bulk of the property undeveloped.
<br />The map shows the archaeological sites that have to be preserved: most of them burials, one of
<br />them being a shrine, some of them being other kinds of historic sites features. And they take up
<br />much of the middle part of the property. For a sense of scale here, how big is a 15,000-square
<br />foot lot, all right? If you look at the -, see the square, it’s actually trapezoid labeled 4005; and
<br />the part that has heavy lines around it, not the buffer area with the dash lines, that’s roughly
<br />15,000 square feet, all right? You know, maybe a couple thousands more, maybe a couple
<br />thousands less. But that’s about what one of the lots, the minimum lot size would be on this. So
<br />you see how that central part of the property is largely -, there is quite a bit of area that’s taken
<br />up by archaeological sites where you won’t be able to build. Now then looking to the right of
<br />that, which is on the south-east side, the contour lines that go in an upside-down V with the apex
<br />of the V pointing mauka, those represent a gully. That’s a big gulch that goes way up into
<br />Kohala Ranch. It’s Keawewai Gulch; that’s the one that carried a huge amount of water in the
<br />storm that you have the records on that resulted in this big runoff event. That’s a very big gulch.
<br />I hope they are not planning to build somewhere in that gulch. Much of this area -, and then
<br />again, you know, looking a little farther to the right, there is another big gulch. You can see that
<br />with the upside-down V showing the contours there. Those are 5-foot contours, by the way; each
<br />of those contour lines is 5 feet apart. This has a lot of steep land. The steepest part, if you look
<br />at the area of a burial site 16148, and you see the contour lines there, that’s a little bit of a hill
<br />there on the property, or a knoll actually. Where the contours are fairly steep there, that’s about
<br />a 30 percent grade. To give you an idea what a 30 percent grade is like, Waipio Valley Road
<br />averages about a 26 percent grade. So it’s a pretty steep portion of the property there. And
<br />turning -, if you look at some of the other areas, if you go all the way to the left hand side of the
<br />map where it says “Easterly Boundary of Proposed Development Area” and you see the contour
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