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GRAHAM:Thank you. <br />ALAMEDA:Commissioners other questions for Mr. Darrow while he€s up there? <br />Seeing none, will the applicant or his representative please come forward? Could I swear the <br />both of you in at this time? Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth <br />now before the Hawaii County Planning Commission? <br />APPLICANTS:I do. <br />ALAMEDA:Thank you. Could you please state your name and address for the record <br />and you can, I can go forward from there. <br />DICKLER:My name is Alan Dickler. Address is 75-5742 Kuakini Highway. <br />FUKE:GoodmorningCommissioners,mynameisSidneyFuke.I€maPlanning <br />Consultant. My address is 100 Pauahi Street, Hilo, Hawaii. <br />ALAMEDA:Okay. All right Mr. Fuke did you get a chance, you and the applicant get <br />a chance to see the Recommendations made by the Department? <br />FUKE: Sure, we reviewed it together with Mr. Dickler and he found the <br />conditions, the recommended conditions to be acceptable. I€d like to just kind of share with the <br />Commissioners partially like some of the background behind the project and in addition to that <br />the response to some of the questions that were raised earlier. <br />ALAMEDA:Sure. <br />FUKE:The project was approved, was given entitlement zoning and Land Use <br />Commission€s approval in the year 2004 and it was designed to be and still continues to be a <br />100% affordable housing project. One hundred percent in the sense that 140, and it would be <br />directed to a 140% or less of median income and they€re on target to meet that goal and of which <br />75% would have to be owner occupied. These are all stipulated in the, the ordinance approving <br />the subject project. As the Staff had indicated the project is well on its way. The grading has <br />been done the grading permit has been issued. The building permit has been processed and <br />hopefully within the next couple of weeks the permit should be issued in which case then the <br />project would get started and hopefully be completed in an 18-month timeframe you know from <br />the time it starts and that was the original goal. The reason for the applicants making this request <br />is not you know solely driven by cost. I mean cost certainly is a factor but it€s more driven by <br />other factors like what your Staff had pointed out. Like you know when you have like a dead- <br />end road which eventually is going to be converted in its entirety to the County then it becomes <br />like a haven for illicit activities. You know whether its for drug trafficking or people just park <br />their junk cars and all that stuff and it provides a certain amount of security concerns for the <br />residence of that area. And so what we€re suggesting is that not necessarily to eliminate this <br />requirement because I think that having this requirement is very appropriate because it fulfills the <br />notion of connectivity and just helps out the overall traffic situation. It€s more a question of like <br />when should it be constructed. And so with the way that your Director has structured a condition <br />EXHIBIT A <br />4 <br /> <br />