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NEKOBA:Yes, I would. The unfortunate thing is, first, I can understand, its not
<br />easy to inform people. You know, because people dont read the mail, whatever it is. But the
<br />other part is, you know, the public themselves have to be educated. Cause when youre talking
<br />about multi density, you know, who knows what these things are? I mean, I have no idea what it
<br />is. But when I look at Hilo and I see like Puueo and I see, you know, I mean, places that already
<br />had that, well, lets keep it there or do something over there; but dont go in a residential area.
<br />And not because I live there, believe me. Its just that, you know, its not Hilo. Thats as simple
<br />as I can make it. But, yes, I would have; and if it comes up now again, I will. In fact, I will try
<br />to push our Councilman who lives across the street from me to do this development thing. They
<br />should. I mean, it will make it easier for you folks, itll make it easy for the Director.
<br />ALAMEDA:Other questions? Commissioner Graham.
<br />GRAHAM:I just have a couple of quick things. First, I dont know how effective it is
<br />buttherulesoftherezoningisthataprojectlikethis,whateverextrafloodingissuesresultfrom
<br />it, theyre supposed to handle it on the project site. So presumably if the rules all follow the
<br />practice and it works, it shouldnt get any worse flooding than what you get right now as a result
<br />of the project. I dont know in practice whether it works the way its supposed to; but thats the
<br />rules and whats what they have to design to follow.
<br />NEKOBA:Yeah, I can understand that. But, you know, just looking at the amount of
<br />water that comes in that area now youre going to cement the whole area practically, I mean, I
<br />presume there will be some grass, and the roofline, all those buildings, I mean, where is the
<br />water going to go? And they said, well, theyre going to dig those whatever, French drains or
<br />whatever, but, you know, theres water not too far down. Were at sea level there. So I dont
<br />know.
<br />GRAHAM:Okay, thanks. And the other thing I was going to bring up is referring
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<br />more to the letter of March 15, we have from Lloyd and Patricia Abe from like a land use thing.
<br />The one thing that you signaled out in your letter is what is the master plan for Waiakea House
<br />Lots. And I think what youre saying is, at least the way Im reading it, is that this is intended to
<br />be a mixed use area so that we might have apartments, we might have townhouses, we might
<br />have some Commercial. But Im going to kind of ask the Planning Director this one, is there any
<br />plan or is it just the issue of like whoever comes in first for the townhouse, wherever they happen
<br />to have a piece of property that they want to do it, thats where it goes. And if somebody comes
<br />in for something else and thats what they want to do, thats where it goes. And it does seem a
<br />little,Imean,itdoesseemtomelikethatscertainlynotthebestwaybecauseyourejustkindof
<br />following the dog kind of, you know what I mean, as opposed to having any plan that it would be
<br />nicetomixsomeinthiskindofawayandhavetheselocatedhereorsomething.Wedonthave
<br />any plan like that, right? Were just going to take what happens in the density, and the zoning,
<br />andtheGeneralPlanthatwehavesetforthisarea?Werejustgoingtotakewhatgetspresented
<br />to us, where it gets presented?
<br />YUEN:Theres nothing more specific than the General Plan though. And so the
<br />individualdecisionsaboutthelotswouldbemadeatarezoninglevellikethis.Theresno
<br />overall plan that would say one lot becomes this and the next lot becomes that.
<br />GRAHAM:Thank you.
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