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know at the last meeting I sort of brought that up and said well maybe Im just sort of dreaming and this is way too far gone. Is there any way for the County or the State to go forward from, if we do this and the developer agrees to do this, we have the metes and bounds, is it practicable that the County or State might actually go forward from here and make a usable Judd Trail at some point in the not too distant future? ALAMEDA:Mr. Director? YUEN:Im pretty sure that there is a, well, it can be done because theres a legal right-of-way. It would take a certain amount of work to do it because you cant just, you know, put a bunch of flagging out and say this is the Trail. Undoubtedly there are areas that would have to be cleared, there may be improvements needed to the footing to make a decent trail. So thats just the work of it. At this point, what I think is really important is that we always make sure in this kind of application that the right-of-way is not somehow lost, that you dont, if you takeaworstcasescenario,youapprove,weapprovethedevelopmentandhousesgetbuiltacross it. I think whats being suggested here on the stabilization is a very good idea. But beyond that, really, you know, it is a State-owned trail. The State has a trail program. I cant speak for them as to where theyre at with trying to actually open up the Judd Trail as a way of walking from Ali i Drive and going mauka. ALAMEDA:Commissioner Iwashita? IWASHITA:I just want a clarification on my point about having the survey done first. And that is there might be an assumption being made that beyond these walls that the Judd Trail physically was still within the easement area for the State; and I guess the wall, to me, is an example of how that may not be true, you know, that the Trail is not this straight line, right, that it meanders, and so, you know, whatever the physical aspects are on the ground. And so, thats why to me its important to go beyond what we see now being done as far as locating the walls, you know, the Judd Trail where it meets Ali i Drive, and go mauka and have the surveyor, you know, do all of the survey homework and properly locate the Trail physically on the ground. And if its within the easement area, fine; if its, portions of it meander back onto this Applicants property then thats what it is. But, you know, that, to me, needs to be done; and in my mind its better if its done before. But I guess if its not going to be that way, I want to make it clear that as a condition precedent to the SMA being effective, that the survey be completed, and this work be completed and accepted before any development, any other development can go forward. ALAMEDA:Okay. All right. Why dont we, any other comments? LAU:No other comments. ALAMEDA:Okay, we do have a testifier. While we take testimony, perhaps we could work on some, a condition or two to kind of discuss when we get into a discussion stage of the game. So let me call up testifier Curtis Tyler. You may be seated. Well bring you guys back. Mr. Tyler? Please have a seat. Let me swear you in. Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth now before the Hawai i County Planning Commission? TYLER:I do. 13EXHIBIT C