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2. Kamakana Villages at Keahuolu. Race Randle, Forest City Hawaii, provided the Action Committee a project overview, Permit timelines and a status report on the Kamakana Villages at Keahuolu project. The permitting process will start up again in September with the State Land Use. The project will be coming in for the 201H exemption approval and the County’s TOD Project District Rezoning. The project is going for LEED Silver certification, however, there are outside elements that might affect this designation (such as the State limiting the number of accesses to Palani Road and Ane Keohokalole. Total project build out is for over 2,000 dwelling units. The hope of the plan is that whatever comes out will reflect the goals which is to protect the land, provide housing choices, provide recreational activities and commercial activities in a mixed use connected and sustainable community There are also efforts to make sure that the project works with the neighboring property plans for interconnectivity as well as compatible uses. Concerns Expressed: The Open Space buffer required for a TOD does not seem to be incorporated into the plan along the property lines. 3. Elections. Action Committee will elect the Chair and Vice Chair. Chair Janice Palma-Glennie nominated Ken Melrose. With no other nominations the Action Committee unanimously elected Ken Melrose as Chair for a term of 1 year. Vice Chair Marni Herkes nominated Bo Kahui and Janice Palma-Glennie nominated Mike Matsukawa. During the discussion by the Action Committee Bo Kahui yielded the nomination. The Action Committee unanimously elected Mike Matsukawa as Vice-Chair for a term of 1 year. 4.KCDP Implementation. Action Committee will continue ongoing review of KCDP Goals, Policies and Actions & discuss roles & responsibilities Question was asked if these meetings could be conducted by teleconference to be able to be include members who may be off island. Clarification from Corporation Counsel – Amy Self – Office of Information Practices has said “no” because the public cannot verify that the person on the telephone is in fact the board member. Videoconferencing is permitted, but the County has no such capability on other islands. 5. Financial Plan Ken Melrose provided an update on the discussions held recently with Dave Freudenberger and Roy Takemoto. They are going to use tables from the draft Background Report to identify only those public facilities needed to serve each scenario. Ultimately, the Background Report will be revised to maintain the phasing (Phases I, II, and III) for the land uses/future development, but phasing will be removed with respect to the infrastructure and a new table at the end of the document will be created to show the infrastructure packages related to each Scenario. tm;E