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be a sign announcing this project on Ali`i Drive. Well, I made a little mark, map for you.
<br />Here’s Ali`i Drive. This is the 60-foot setback. The sewer treatment plant is there. The
<br />sign was put here, so unless -. And, of course, there’s all trees on this side, and there’s a
<br />house here. So unless you were looking for a sign announcing this subdivision, this
<br />condo, you wouldn’t see it. And there were cars parked in front of it.
<br />I also wanted to mention to the Commission, I don’t understand why Sidney on Page 3
<br />identified the Ali`i Parkway, on 5 he identified Ali`i Highway; and on your map you’ve
<br />got Kahului-Keauhou. I think that that’s a real issue for you guys to try to resolve.
<br />Regarding this complex, the fact there’s 120 units coming in, Sidney said, this is
<br />interesting, the same architect designed Kona Hawaiian Village, well, and he’s going to
<br />be doing a lot of modifying of plans. I’m wondering if this is going to turn into a time
<br />share, and we just haven’t got the whole story yet, like Kona Hawaiian Village did.
<br />The idea that 165 parking spaces is going to serve 120 units is wrong. It will not. They
<br />also indicated they may be putting 3-bedroom units in. It’s not just strictly 2-bedrooms,
<br />it could be a combination of all, which means more parking.
<br />If you look at the plans of this condominium complex, they said, again, the architect was
<br />the man who designed Kona Hawaiian Village. That’s a real tropical, nice-looking
<br />complex even though it is time shared. These projects that they’re building looks like
<br />Ali`i Lani, Kona Sea Ridge, Ali`i Cove. There’s nothing Hawaiiana about them as far as
<br />I’m concerned.
<br />In coming by the parks, Pahoehoe and White Sands, this weekend there were like 26 cars
<br />parked, I’m sorry, 21 cars parked along the street on Ali`i Drive; and I went home on my
<br />lunch hour and there were about six parking spaces left at Pahoehoe on the makai side.
<br />In this area, I believe that the development thinks that they’re going to use that as
<br />parking. That is now beach parking. This 6550, which is by the sewer treatment, it’s
<br />used all the time, and there probably were not more than about 10 parking spaces. He
<br />talked about an access to the beach. Well, if they’re going to do that, does that mean a
<br />sidewalk? Would they have a sidewalk for the people coming down to the beach, which
<br />would be great? And then in looking at their project, I didn’t see any community issue or
<br />a swimming pool or something that would give somebody in that condominium
<br />something to stay in that condominium for. In other words, they’re utilizing the County
<br />public parks to provide any and all recreation activities, the way I looked at it. And,
<br />again, I got most of mine this morning as well.
<br />They talked about a gate. I guess the gate is going to go back by the sewer treatment
<br />plant. And, oh, I just wanted to say for the record, Ali`i Heights, Keauhou View Estates,
<br />450 homes; White Sands Subdivision, I wish I knew, I think it’s about 80 or 90 lots. But
<br />on my street alone everybody has multiple apartments within their house. So instead of
<br />being single neighborhoods, we have bed and breakfasts, we have vacation rentals, and
<br />we have multiple use. So if they say that there’s only 80 or 90 lots in the old subdivision
<br />of White Sands, that may be true. But it’s multiple use. And so the amount of traffic
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