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Department is already saying, yes, anything even outside 1,000 foot has a potential, but now you combine the high density and this type of drainage problem which that’s going to have to stay there in one form or another, you know, the septics going onto that and coming down, I just wonder if there’s any other conditions that exists like this one around any other well in the County. It’s like a triple whammy problem here. My next point has to do with the water situation on the lower proposed subdivision where they’re going from Ag 20 to Ag 10. And on the original application they said County water would be provided for those lots. I want to make one point real quick about the drainage. In Mr. Yuen’s comment he says it’s technically zone X but in the paperwork from the Public Works Department it has not yet been mapped by FEMA. So if it has never been mapped, it automatically is considered zone X. So just cause it’s considered zone X does not mean there’s not a flooding problem, which there is a flooding problem. But getting back to the water over there, originally they were going to have water for those lots. That subsequently has been denied by the Water Department. They will not be getting water. And my understanding has always been if there’s no water there’s no rezoning. Now Mr. Yuen in his recommendation says, well, they can’t subdivide until they get County water. But how can they ever be guaranteed County water if they’re denied now? We live right above there. We don’t have water. They say we don’t know when you’ll ever get water. We’re on a variance but in essence this would be just like a variance. And so I just have a real question how can you rezone if there’s no water? I thought that was always a basic condition, no water, no rezoning. And I wanted to make one final point. Mr. Yuen in his recommendation calls for 120 percent median income to be the cutoff for the affordable housing. And my understanding it’s somewhere in the nature of $270,000 per home. And then also in his recommendation he says it’s very hard to find anything under $400,000. And that caught me offguard because I know that, I don’t think that’s fully accurate. And so I just got this yesterday. And so I asked my son who is a starving real estate agent right now since things have slowed down to run up a quick, in the last, printout; and I told him to go from Papaikou to Honomu, which is in this general area. He found, this is covering the past year, the houses sold, under contract, everything, 21 homes for $300,000 or less, and 11 of those $275,000 and less, which would be the same as what these may be qualified for. So I’m not saying that there’s not an affordable housing problem. I’m saying there are things right at this point available to people. And I gather people have said to push this through, rush this through. It’s just wrong. So my recommendation would be to flat out deny the lower subdivision since there is no water; and as far as the upper one if that is ever going to be developed require the developer to fix that intersection at Sugar Mill Road and put in at a minimum turn lanes. And my final one is if it’s not denied at least defer it so these things can be fleshed out better. Thank you very much. GRAHAM: Thank you, Mr. Meek. Do we have any questions? DOMINGO: One question, Mr. Chairman. GRAHAM: Commissioner Domingo. DOMINGO: Are you part of the Kulaimano Association? EXHIBIT D 17