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factors that are being involved in the development has not been met; that’s why they have not <br />done anything – but I don’t think that it will be within our jurisdiction to recommend the changes <br />such as this and take away and in essence causing a default zoning by our action and by the <br />County Council’s action. <br />WATANABE: All right. Thank you. Yes, Ms. Siracusa. <br />SIRACUSA: Yes, I have a question of Mr. Lim. <br />WATANABE: Yes. <br />SIRACUSA: Years ago when Shipman decided to start working on the Keaau master <br />plan, which you referenced, they invited a group of people to sit down with them and work on <br />the plan and gain community input. I was one of those that was invited by Bobby Cooper who <br />was the head of Shipman at that time, and Jiro Sumada who now works with the County was <br />involved in that also. And we had about 5 meetings or so, and then Shipman stopped calling the <br />meetings. And so I was wondering if you were aware that the master plan only partially <br />reflected community input; and at one point Shipman just cut it off, and the rest of it, and what <br />came out of it as a result was entirely Shipman; they took out whatever they didn’t like that the <br />community had put in. I’m sure – cause I never saw the final result – that they did save some of <br />the things, ideas that they liked. But I was wondering if you were aware that the plan had not <br />been totally a community thing, that Shipman had taken it over after awhile and completed it on <br />their own without community input. Were you aware of that? <br />LIM: I was aware that they kept the community involved. I don’t know what <br />particularly happened with yourself; so I can’t comment. <br />WATANABE: Do we have any further questions for Mr. Lim? And I believe it’s Pamela <br />Sullivan. Yes, name and address, please. <br />SULLIVAN: Pamela Sullivan, 15-2759 Aweoweo, Pahoa, sorry. I’m representing <br />Foster Kern here today and my written testimony is a letter from Foster Kern to the Commission, <br />and attached to that letter is a vicinity map of our project, our commercial center project called <br />Ulupono Center in Keaau, so if the Commissioners want to refer to that map to see the location <br />of that property. I just wanted to describe a little bit about the project. Ulupono Center is a <br />commercial development in Keaau located at the intersection of Highway 130 and Milo Street; <br />that’s approximately half a mile south of the Highway 11 and Highway 130 intersection. And <br />Foster Kern has just completed the third phase of this development, which is the third phase, <br />which consists of 12 lots on about 11 acres.The zoning for this phase is MCX-20. The two <br />largest lots in this phase have just been purchased by Long’s Drugs – I’m sure you’ve read about <br />that in the paper. The only business currently operating in the Center right now is CU Hawaii <br />Federal Credit Union. The property also contains an additional 17 acres, which will be Phase IV <br />of our project, and that’s zoned FA-3 currently. We intend to sell the remaining 10 lots of Phase <br />III – the one that was just completed – to small and medium sized retailers and service providers <br />that will contribute to the overall viability and success of the Center. There are comprehensive <br />CC&Rs and guidelines in place to ensure the site will be developed in a consistent manner with <br />EXHIBIT C <br />14 <br /> <br />