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then, but he didn’t just think about his plan and have Scott prepare the plan. Like he felt it was
<br />really important to engage the community in the planning process. And I think that’s really,
<br />really elementary. And I give him really full credit to that. So he had like a number of meetings
<br />with the community, the people from the Sunrise Ridge Estates area, and people from the
<br />adjoining subdivisions to the North, because they were all sensitized to the kinds of issues that
<br />were raised by the community when the initial University Terrace project came along. So he
<br />wanted to address those kinds of concerns. And then ultimately with some revisions then what
<br />you see up there is a result of, you know, the months of meetings with the community and
<br />reflective of his vision.
<br />What he ultimately has developed is what is called like, you know, he calls it Wailani, that’s the
<br />name of the LLC. But Wailani is like, has like two major overlapping themes. One is like, is to
<br />create like a pedestrian friendly walkable type of community, you know, complete with different
<br />types of residential products, single family, multiple family, town houses, senior citizen area, you
<br />know, so on and so forth . You have a recreational area and you also have supportive
<br />commercial office and commercial retail kind of activities. Some have called this type like the
<br />new urbanism or sustainable type of community. But, you know, that’s kind of like the buzz
<br />word. But essentially that is the vision.
<br />The other kind of like major theme that went through it all is that, you know, he wanted to
<br />provide and address the health care needs; and that is, as Wendy had indicated, the primary
<br />focus. The project is called Wailani. And in preparing for today’s presentation I was looking at
<br />the dictionaries, I have like Mary Pukui and Samuel Liebert; and, of course, you have your
<br />resident Hawaiiana expert in Bobby Jean over here. But, you know, Wailani according to that
<br />definition is rainwater, especially as used for medicine and purification; and so appropriate, you
<br />know, because that is the focus. So the components as was explained briefly, you know, by the
<br />staff is that, you know, you have a medical campus, it’s about 180,000 square feet. And the
<br />structures -. Can you go to the slide -? What Scott did was -. You’ve got to go forward.
<br />MATSUURA: Forward, right?
<br />FUKE: Yeah, forward. Yeah, so that is kind of like, you know, a prototype of what’s kind of
<br />envisioned, like two-story kind of structure, little bit more in keeping with the natural
<br />environment. The access would come off of Puuhonu Place. Tentatively right now what is
<br />envisioned is like a right-turn in and right-turn out; and if and when there is a need for a full
<br />movement intersection, at that point in time, then the idea is that the developer, you know, would
<br />be responsible for fully signalizing that particular intersection because you already have an
<br />intersection on the makai side of the highway. This is, probably would be the first component
<br />that would be developed. In addition to that, there would be this commercial office retail area.
<br />And, again, like he’s looking at a little bit more like a village-type and not a typical mall-type of
<br />activity. He has already had some discussions with a super market chain that is very interested in
<br />doing something in that area. And I live, and a number of the members of the hui also live in the
<br />Kaumana area. And if you live in that area you know that it’s kind of like somewhat under-
<br />served when it comes to a super market or grocery kind of facilities. And so like having a
<br />supermarket in this particular area would really be not only a welcome addition to the broader
<br />community but certainly within the project itself.
<br />The other thing that Dr. Matsuura made very painfully clear to the community and, you know, in
<br />response to also the concerns raised by the community earlier was that this is not a site for big
<br />boxes. And so one of the conditions that your staff has recommended reflects the condition
<br />that’s clearly, essentially because by square footage, prohibits really the construction or the
<br />introduction of big boxes like a Costco, or Walmart, or something like that. The other vision that
<br />Dr. Matsuura had was to set aside an area for a high-tech park. And the reason why he had come
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