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Industrial area. So taking that seriously we then are going to ask the owners if they are going to
<br />make the kinds of infrastructure improvements that you would have in an area where you’re
<br />intending for the lots to be Light Industrial.
<br />If we simply go ahead with special permits on a one-by-one basis what will happen is people
<br />naturally like Mr. Sumida who are looking for a place to locate their business, a trucking
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<br />baseyard, a warehouse and the like, will buy lots on 33. They will quite naturally do that; and
<br />they’ll apply one by one for a special permit. And over time in 10 years you’ll have a dozen or
<br />so special permits, a vacant lot, a house, a trucking baseyard, a warehouse, another person’s
<br />house, at best a 20-foot wide paved road, no water, the kinds of water improvements that would
<br />not go with a Light Industrial area. And let me contrast that with if somebody actually came in
<br />to zone and develop a Light Industrial subdivision, like, actually the Shipman Business Park is
<br />zoned Heavy Industrial, but let me use that as an example because the requirements would be
<br />basically pretty similar. They would have a road that’s a pretty substantial road, drainage
<br />improvements, and a 12-inch waterline to provide fire protection for the buildings. And I don’t
<br />understand why we would have, when we develop an area in Paradise Park on special permits,
<br />with markedly less infrastructure simply as a matter of special permits. I don’t know, you know,
<br />because -. And as far as the cost element, if we let the Shipman Business Park, for example,
<br />develop a new increment without waterlines, with a 20-foot wide road, without regular kinds of
<br />drainage improvements, yes, they could actually offer lots in there for quite a bit less than they
<br />do with the County standard.
<br />And the final issue here is, I think if we were going to do a Light Industrial area here along the
<br />Highway, we would want to have it heavily screened from the highway traffic. The Shipman
<br />Business Park has actually a condition that -. You’ll notice there’s a complete vegetative buffer
<br />from the highway. They retained the existing vegetation. And that’s actually one of the
<br />terrifically positive feature of the way that an Industrial Subdivision was developed. Otherwise
<br />you’d drive along and it would sort of look like Kanoelehua Avenue in Hilo as you drove past
<br />that Industrial Subdivision, instead you see something that’s pretty much like the forested area in
<br />Panaewa as you drive through. That’s very hard to implement on a lot-by-lot basis where one
<br />person has a special permit and they landscape their lot, and then the next person has a vacant,
<br />and they have no permit or no requirement, they don’t have to do it. So the purpose of this
<br />questionnaire is to see, you know, it’s easy to put a line in the plan and say, okay, this is
<br />supposed to be a Light Industrial area in the future. But are the owners really committed to
<br />developing it and sharing in the cost of the improvements? And that’s what we’re trying to do
<br />here.
<br />WATANABE: Thank you. Yes, Sandra.
<br />SONG: Mr. Chairman, just to respond to Mr. Yuen, his intentions are very good
<br />but Carnor cannot wait a time necessary to do this grandiose plan that Mr. Yuen wants to see for
<br />the area. And that is good and he can participate in it, but he’s asking for a special permit now;
<br />and if it goes ahead, if the County decides to have this whole area rezoned with a master plan, he
<br />can participate in it. So there’s nothing to say it can’t be done as a parallel track.
<br />WATANABE: Okay. I have a question. How far down is this road? I mean how far
<br />down does it extend? So if we were, say, going to develop, if the community came out and said,
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