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proceed with what weve got, and then well deal with that in an appropriate manner. Jeff, do you want to continue? DARROW:Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just to briefly summarize, again we do have two applications before us a State Land Use Boundary amendment from Ag to Urban for this particular area of 6.7 acres, which is part of the area in the Change of Zone from Ag-20 to RS- 7.5; Hawaiian Rainbows Business Development has entered into an agreement with Hawaii Island Community Development Corporation to be able to allow them to build a 30-lot affordable subdivision. We have two applications: One is a State Land Use Boundary amendment; the other one is a Change of Zone, which encompasses all these actions together Agricultural 20-acres to RS-7.5 for 6.7 acres, the remainder of the parcel from Ag-20 to Ag-5 and then a larger parcel of 118 acres from Ag-20 to Ag-10. The entire project is approximately 140 acres in size. TherecommendationofthePlanningDirectoratthistimeisthatthePlanningCommissionsend a favorable recommendation for these applications to the Hawaii County Council. Are there any questions? GRAHAM:Thank you, Jeff. Yes, Commissioner Watanabe? WATANABE:I have a question for, I guess, the Director really, and its more for clarification purposes because we just took that site visit this morning. And it seems clear to me that Soil Conservation had the developer create some berms, etc. to reduce the potential for flooding, and to conserve the soil obviously. And irrespective of what this application states, because with the additional material that we got from the developer as well as the site visit and the topo map that we recently got, you know, the application states 30 houses, but irrespective of how the application came in, we would never allow any building in an AE flood zone anyway. And so Im wanting to make sure that, you know -. Typically the system has other checks and balances within it, which means that potentially the subdivision would have been downsized, even if we had approved it as it had come in. YUEN:Right. Its quite common that an area would be residentially zoned and well have areas that have to be set aside for a drainage way within the RS zoning. Part of the Subdivision Code says that the subdivider has to lay out watercourses and drainage ways within the subdivision, and set them aside in drainage easements. So we see this quite commonly that it wasnt necessarily determined at the time of zoning where the drainage ways would be, but that its taken care of in the subdivision approval in the subdivision stage. GRAHAM:Any other questions from the Commissioners at this point? DOMINGO:Mr. Chairman, if I may? GRAHAM:Yes, Commissioner Domingo. DOMINGO:With speaking of building drainage ways and other factors tied in with the development I just have one question. Would the cost of all of those infrastructure be tagged onto the cost of the homes? 4EXHIBIT A