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this particular one that if the area that you were changing was only in that right of the three quadrants and only three parcels deep instead of six that they would support that and also going all the way up to the main highway. So like three parcels deep and just to the right of the three parcels that youre changing going up to the highway was acceptable to them. YUEN:Im sorry, I stand corrected on that. I do want to mention one thing, though, as far as the highway itself. I would recommend that any -- . We didnt extend this to the highway on purpose. And that is so that if you have commercial development, its not so dependent on the highway frontage. Rather than having this typical look of the parking lot, the commercial building, the gas station right along the highway, that its set back at least a little bit from the highway. Youll notice that this one and the other one are on an axis thats perpendicular to the highway. Again, this is to keep a more Residential or Open field along the highway and to not have a strip along the highway, which is in some respects how businesses sometimes prefer to develop because of the visibility. And then that frontage -. So thats the characteristicwithbothofthese.TheA-1andA-2whichwewouldturntonext,ifweredone with A-1. ALAMEDA:Follow-up? No? Commissioner Salavea? SALAVEA:Just understanding the, I guess, concept or the need for the commercial area, relative to whats existing in Keaau and the newly-created commercial area where Malama Market is in Pahoa, the intent for this type of commercial designation is to create commercial land of that scale and level or lower, say, for the mom-and-pop to service the immediate community of Orchidland? YUEN:It is intended to serve the immediate community. I think the businesses themselves will end up determining the ultimate scale. Its clear that there isnt the kind of commercial space in this mid-subdivision area that would normally accompany that kind of population. One of the goals is to reduce the need for people to drive around. I imagine that people would still drive to these kinds of centers. Theres not really the population density that would make it a village center or a walking-type of center. But take the Ainaloa Subdivision, for example, you have 3,000 lots in there. Could be, if its 100 percent built out, that corresponds with a population of roughly 8,000 people. To give you a comparison, like North Kohala I think the population is about 7,000 people. So its to have a place where people in that subdivision would, where a business can locate and you could have the groceries, the kinds of things that people need on a day-to-day basis, and maybe a place where somebody, the accountant has their office, or the person who does taxes, or the person who sells real estate, you know, those kinds of services, somewhere closer and some place thats legal to set up businesses like that, rather than going to either Pahoa or Keaau. Thats the basic idea behind having an area like this. SALAVEA:Thank you, Mr. Director. ALAMEDA:Fellow Commissioners, Im ready to move on to A-2, if theres no other comments for A-1? Seeing none, Mr. Director, A-2? YUEN:A-2 is a similar concept. This is a little bit closer to Keaau. This is along Ainaloa Boulevard. This is the Medium Density Urban area in the 2005 General Plan; and it roughly encompasses the area thats already under commercial development. Again, this was 5