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This would be the floor plan for the two-story units. This would be the floor plans for the one-story units. Just for reference, this is a picture that is taken from Naniloa Street facing towards the proposed entrance from Naniloa Street to the property. Right now this is a stubout. This road running in a mauka-makai direction or from the left to the right side of the map is Queen Kalama Street. This project is what is called a LEED project; and if I can just take a minute and describe that. The project will be a sustainable low rise residential community developed with guiding principals of community connectivity, pedestrian amenities, and awareness of place. The project has been registered with the US Green Building Council as a LEED, L-E-E-D, which stands for Leadership, and Energy and Energy and Environmental Design committed to green development. So this is a registered LEED project. The applicant, again, is proposing to have 65 units on this project. After, if these applications are approved, the applicant is proposing to come in with a Planned Unit Development and that will be done administratively within the Planning Department’s office. Also, the applicant states that for affordable housing they are proposing to be able to comply with that condition on a property owned by the applicant to the mauka side of the property. Lastly, there are two archaeological sites on the property that are required to be preserved and they are going to be preserved with buffers on site. We have received quite a number of letters this morning as well as another submittal from the applicant that has proposed revised conditions; and these have been submitted to the Planning Commission. Additionally, we have sent out a revised Special Management Area Use Permit -; and the reason for that is we needed to revise several of the conditions. One of the conditions is that the effective date of the SMA Permit will be the effective date of the change of zone, that way that, because the SMA Permit will be approved by the Commission and not go up to the Council. If it is approved here the effective date won’t happen until, or if the change of zone is approved at Council -. I believe, well, I wanted to just touch upon, there are some conditions, conditions of the change of zone that should be mentioned. Condition E -. These conditions speak to the alternatives that the applicant has in regards to road improvements or access improvements. The applicant has two alternatives, in reference to Condition E. Alternative No. 1 would be to, let’s see here, correct -. This is Condition E in the change of zone. The applicant can either put in a mauka-makai connector road on the property located to the west that connects the project site to Alii Drive. If the applicant does do that then they won’t require, they will not be required to do Alternative No. 2. Alternative No. 2 is that the applicant will be required to do improvements at the Queen Kalama and Alii Drive intersection and this would include pavement widening, retaining structures, relocation of utilities, improvement of site distance, as well as a left-turn lane; and that will be Alternative No. 2. Condition F requires that the project have two connector roads to the south property, and it shows on the applicant’s site plan that they have that proposed in there. Additionally, it says that all streets within the project shall be constructed with curbs, gutters and sidewalks if they are part of a route providing connections between Naniloa Street, Alii Drive, and the adjacent property to EXHIBIT B 3