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WATANABE: Kona Bay. LEITHEAD TODD: That subdivision has in front of it a seawall, which is considered to be a public access. If you come from the Old Kona Airport, you can walk in front of those homes. Questionable in my mind in the future whether that, you know, is going to be a good alignment. But if you went along the purple line, then theoretically that would follow the coast, and end up in front of those homes which are directly in front of the park, okay? If you follow the red alignment, then that takes you by the gated entrance, and then you would have to either go from there down along the path towards the ocean where the public access currently is. The reason there are two alignments there is one, I think, one that, you know, a lot of people would like to see is the purple one closer to the ocean, but the thought was that we might not be able to negotiate that with the property owner next door, and that because unless they are coming in for some kind of permitting, we donÓt really have a mechanism to get public access across the property; and the red alignment allows, though, access to the anchialine pond area, which is quite extensive back there and thereÓs been some community expression of trying to clean that up and restore those ponds because Î I think you can see the water feature by the red Î itÓs quite extensive. I walked it recently, and was surprised at how big that area is. So I think itÓs -. And that one, because itÓs following the edge of the property line, we thought perhaps it was easier to actually get from a property owner because it falls between their property and neighboring properties. And the reason the purple one we thought might be difficult to negotiate with the property owner is because that brings people into their little inlet there and by the homes and stuff, we thought that that might be difficult. But I think, you know, weÓd like to be able to try and negotiate both of them, you know. And I think in terms of the public they probably would prefer the purple, but I donÓt know exactly how accessible along the shoreline, the rest of that shoreline is, because that break, the breach in the wall has been there I think since the 1950Ós or Ó60Ós. It was some time ago that they created that little inlet back when I think Thurston was the property owner of that. BOWMAN: And, and some of that is in the Historic District, right, in the red -. I wish I had an overlay of exactly where the Historic District is. But thatÓs, quite a bit is -. Maybe you can show us, Maija? COTTLE: Yeah, actually the historic -. BOWMAN: I know Heiau, yeah. COTTLE: The historic and cultural sites are mainly down here. But the Historical District is two parcels, and it comes right across here and then cuts down towards the beach -. BOWMAN: Could you also just -. COTTLE: So this area here would be in the Historical District. BOWMAN: Thank you. And could you also just highlight where the present luau grounds are? EXHIBIT C 8