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the property has adequate sight distance Î that means all of the Department of TransportationÓs
<br />requirements Î which is where our driveway is located, which is also the best location; you are
<br />closest to the road elevation, you have less fill as opposed to the south. So there are sight
<br />distance problem over a portion of the property. But again, if
<br />be sitting here today. We tried to do some of our due diligence.
<br />With respect to Î I donÓt want to call it a trail Î there is a pathway across the property. When we
<br />first were working on this property, the State provided us with a topographic map of the
<br />property, and we figured we can work from that. The topographic map didnÓt make a lot of
<br />sense. We actually talked to the surveyor that did it, and he said the tree mass of the southern
<br />half of the property was so thick that he estimated where the ground was. Hard to plan a
<br />property that way. What we did is we went to see if we could clear the property, do some limited
<br />clearing. And what we ended up doing was hand-clearing the property. There is a guardrail
<br />along the entire frontage of the property, so we couldnÓt get into the property from Akoni-Pule
<br />Highway. Manny very graciously allowed us to access the property from the Canoe Club site.
<br />So for two weeks we had a contractor come in. He backed up his trailer right below that wooden
<br />structure, and what he did is, we were hand-clearing dead branches and small suckers basically,
<br />we didnÓt take out any live trees Î down trees we cut through. There was physically really no
<br />way to get across the property. We ended up -. IÓd laid out the initial pathway with a can of
<br />spray paint, and it was cut by one of our contractors. This other contractor came in, and one of
<br />the reasons that pathway looks so good, they were bringing out a whole bunch of material, and
<br />they tried with a wheelbarrow and it didnÓt work because of a flat tire, so they ended up piling
<br />cut branches onto a tarp and dragging the tarp along this pathway, which really spread things ou
<br />and opened it up. So that ÐtrailÑ was created as part of the hand-clearing of the property. And
<br />thereÓs a loop that goes through there because we had, everything that we cut we had to bring out
<br />to the area fronting the Canoe Club. So you know, it is a nice path; a lot of it was built a really
<br />neat trail creation technique Î drag a tarp along the ground. So I just want to lay that in terms of
<br />the trail, that is something that I laid out by spray paint, that somebody came in and cut, and then
<br />our contractors came in really worked over that for, they had, you know, between two and six
<br />employees working for two solid weeks going through there and hauling material out.
<br />At the same time we are very cognizant of the need for lateral access. WeÓve been working with
<br />Manny. One of my philosophies of planning is, never plan somebo
<br />same time when we were working with this Î and Kevin can, Kevin Moore can verify Î our
<br />whole understanding was that the recreational access use is, again, if there are historic sites,
<br />weÓve got to deal with them; if there are not, the trail, the area makai of us was where that was
<br />intended. In talking with Manny, that is where traditionally access was, that there was, you
<br />know, this has been overgrown now and the last few years, and what looks like a really neat trail,
<br />or pathway, was no different than areas in front that look really overgrown and hard to get
<br />through. And with a chainsaw and some work and moving some rocks, you know, that access
<br />way can be relocated.
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<br />And in that regard, you know, and we are open, as I indicated in my letter to the National Park
<br />Service, we are open to a solution. Real frankly, if that pathway is the trail that we have to
<br />accommodate, our project is not feasible. We, as I indicated, we have to provide parking, we
<br />have some constrains on the property, there are some drainage ways we have to accommodate,
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