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This is an aerial photo of the site. You can see that the properties are undeveloped. You’ll also get an idea of the other vacant areas in the mauka direction and to the south, and then the existing subdivisions. The applicant is requesting a Project District consisting of approximately 518 residential units, which will include about 333 senior housing units, 90 multiple family town house units, and 95 single family residential lots. They’re also proposing 180,000 square feet of a medical office campus, 200,000 square feet of a commercial center, and a 100,000-square foot business park, as well as approximately 26 acres of active and passive recreational and open space areas. They’re also proposing infrastructure improvements which would include the extension of Ponahawai Street from Komohana Street up to the Mohouli Street Extension, and that extension improvement you can see here. This is Komohana Street on the right side of the slide. The extension would run through the project site and connect up to Mohouli Avenue. This slide shows the first phase of the proposed development. You can see the medical office campus that’s shown in blue and it’s located mauka of Komohana Street, across from the Puuhonu Medical facilities that are on the makai side of Komohana Street. Also, the commercial center, they’re proposing to develop 100,000 square feet of the commercial center in the first phase, as well as preserve the Puuhonu Cinder Cone as a passive open recreational area and a park, an active park facility in this area. The second phase of development would build on that. It would include 80,000 square feet of the medical office campus which would complete that development. And then another 100,000 square feet of commercial development which would complete the commercial center, as well as the 333 or so elderly housing units. The town house units are shown here in orange and would get access off of a cul-de-sac from Mohouli Avenue. And then the third phase of development would, again, build on the other two and include single family residential lots on the north side of the project on the Mohouli Avenue end, as well as the business park that’s shown here along the Alenaio Drainage Channel; and that’s shown in red, and then some large lot residential development south of the cul-de-sac off Mohouli Avenue. The Department is recommending that the Commission send a favorable recommendation to the County Council for this application. WOODWARD: Thank you, Maija. Do we have any questions from Commissioners for the staff? Commissioner Domingo. DOMINGO: I see that this particular application would replace that of the University Terrace. COTTLE: That’s correct. DOMINGO: Are the proposed, are the owners and the proposed developers the same people that we’re looking at? COTTLE: No. The ownership has changed. The previous University Terrace Project District was applied for by Western United; and they, I believe that company went bankrupt. And the new owners took ownership of the property a few years ago. DOMINGO: I see. One of my concerns in the past is when individuals or developers obtain the necessary permits for development, and then after a short while without even meeting the conditions of approval they would spin out the property and take advantage of that and reap, you know, financial benefits. And I’m concerned that if people do that from time to time then that drives up the cost of property without anything being built upon. And that impacts on 2 EXHIBIT C