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different avenues here, I donÓt want to confuse this subject. I know what it boils down to
<br />is our roads are getting torn up by all the traffic, not just commercial but building, you
<br />know, everything thatÓs going on. So weÓre looking forward saying, well, before this
<br />comes and, you know, bankrupts us, what can we do, you know, wha
<br />we do? And, so, it ends up being just take care of the roads. If someone is going to
<br />impact the roads more, then there needs to be some kind of, some balance there so that -.
<br />We need the businesses in the Park or close to the Park, but we donÓt want them to
<br />bankrupt us trying to take care of the roads on the other side. So weÓd like that balanced.
<br />And if I may, now, I donÓt know if this is the appropriate time to do this but Jeff pointed
<br />out that there are nodes in the Park and that he felt obligated to look at those nodes first
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<br />for commercial activity. And weÓre seeing a lot of commercial a where the
<br />current applicant is and in the area. We may consider, as an Association, trying to
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<br />nurture that area, 33, as more of a commercial area. So, you know, thatÓs just a dre
<br />right now, a pipe dream, if you will. But if that has any beari
<br />please let it because we want the business, we also want our roads. I mean, we want
<br />everyone to be happy. We donÓt want, you know, if someone bough
<br />you know, and they live on the mainland and they finally get over here and they retired
<br />and they find out that their lot is right next to a, you know, who knows what, a storage
<br />facility or something that they didnÓt plan in ag land -. You know, weÓre getting more
<br />and more of that kind of situation, so we want to re-do the planning, basically.
<br />SPRINGER:Go ahead, Dan, Dan Payne.
<br />PAYNE:Thank you very much, Madam Chairman. Let me, with your
<br />permission, IÓd like to provide you with just a very brief background statement.
<br />Hawaiian Paradise Park has 8,886 lots. We anticipate, I anticipate easily within the next
<br />20 years Hawaiian Paradise Park will have over 30,000 residents. WeÓre not ready for
<br />5,000 and we have more than that now. The Park is a substandard, non-conforming
<br />private subdivision. Because we are a private subdivision the County has no
<br />responsibility for us. As a matter of fact they tell us that they cannot provide any service
<br />or any assistance to us because we are a private subdivision. We are responsible for our
<br />own roads, we have 137 miles of roadways that we have to maintai
<br />maintenance fee to every lot owner in the Park for that purpose.
<br />charge, we can never do more than just keep up with minimum main
<br />access roads off the highway are paved. It was only last year that, finally, for the first
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<br />time in 30 years, we paved three miles of lateral roads. We paved two miles on 28
<br />Street and one mile of Beach Road, itÓs down at the other end.
<br />In the Park, with all of the owners that we have, with all of the promise that we have, the
<br />only governing structure is the Board of Directors of the Association. ThatÓs the only
<br />thing weÓve got to serve the function of governance for the Park because the County
<br />wonÓt. But when we try to exercise that responsibility, we sometimes are ignored,
<br />overlooked or overturned by County officials. ThereÓs not a thing in the world we can do
<br />about that. And one of the problems that weÓre having right now is because of just such
<br />an event in December, last year. The Mango/Whitney Trust, you know, filed for a
<br />Special Use Permit, they wanted to legalize what they had already been doing for the past
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