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collaboration to find some kind of an alignment between the AliÒi Drive, the pier area, and Makaeo, the Old Kona Airport Park, which does have quite a bit of parking and hopefully will be a wonderful new park with canoe facilities and other recreational facilities, that could connect the community to Kailua Village. We did provide you with a letter detailing several of the benefits to a shared use pathway. I have to say a 10-foot easement would not be enough in my opinion. I think weÓd have a lot of traffic. And 10 feet it would be the minimum of the path itself, but you need some shydistance. So we encourage that to be a bit wider. This map that we provided to you in the form of a letter is jus some possible alignments to basically skirt the perimeter. We acknowledge that these would take away a significant amount of parking; so perhaps something else would need to be worked out. But essentially thereÓs a number of different opportunities to try and connect the village. And, again, we just think this is a once in a lifetimeopportunity to make Kailua Village a historic village, the kind of place that we all want to visit as residentguests, and to really make this a wonderful place for the community. Thank you. WATANABE: Do we have, oh, go ahead. BOWMAN: I do. Thank you, Laura. I want your opinion or, on these preferred alignments that you see here. As I see it, and IÓm maybe not familiar that -. Maybe somebody can tell me, where is Makaeo from here? Like it would be off, kind of towards that box over there on the wall? HOUSEL: To the left. BOWMAN: Yeah, to the left, straight across. And you talk about connecting to Makaeo. Are there any, is there any way you can get from the Old Airport other than the road now? DIERENFIELD: Well, IÓm sure thereÓs people in this room that are much more knowledgeable than I am. But there is a sewer easement I believe that basically goes behind the West HawaiÒi Today building that connects to the back of the parking lot. ThatÓs used frequently by people just because itÓs fun to be able to run through the village or walk through the village and, I donÓt know, thatÓs not really a, I think, a welcomed, you know, access for both the property in terms of the risks that that poses for them, I suppose, and itÓs not necessarily the most scenic, but that is, that does exist now. My understanding is that there used to be access along the shoreline and somehow that was lost; and thatÓs something that I donÓt totally understand myself, but itÓs unfortunate. And IÓm sure Na Ala Hele would know more about that. But those two alignments, I mean, it would be great to do that but I just, itÓs, IÓm not sure how the neighboring landowners would feel about that. So, I donÓt really know -. BOWMAN: Because my concern is with the red alignment, I mean, yo road but what does that mean? Where are those people going to park? I just donÓt understand how that alignment would be beneficial for anyone because going subdivision? IÓm sorry I donÓt know the name of it. EXHIBIT C 7