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First, in terms of like a general background, as was noted by, pursuant to a question by Commissioner Graham, the property was rezoned back in 1994. And the rezoning was for 44 acres of land to Multiple Family-3.5 and RS- 7.5; and it was designed specifically to allow a 310-unit project on the property, 231 of which would be Multiple Family and 79 of which would be Single Family Residential. At that point in time, the property was one contiguous property. But since that time, however, the property was subdivided to create the required right-of-way for the Kahului Parkway and, as a result, two lots were created. And although the property has not been developed since 1994, obviously, some of the major conditions of approval relating to the public infrastructure have been fulfilled. And one of them, as I mentioned earlier, you know, relates to the subdivision of the properties and the creation and setting aside of the Ali`i Parkway. The other one was the conveyance of about 1-plus or minus acres of land on the makai portion of the original property for the Wastewater Pump Station which, at this point in time, is already operational. So notwithstanding the fact that the property was, you know, is still vacant, those public- related type of infrastructure activities were done by the former owners of this property. The current owners of the property purchased, acquired interest in the property back in October of 2004 and began plans for the development of this project. And I just kind of wanted to share with the Commission like what goes through the planning process and along the way then to hopefully have the Commission, you know, understand like the different kinds of constraints and the different reports that were required for the project. You know, contrary to popular belief, I mean, if you have a piece of land, it’s not like you hire an architect and you tell him you want to put up a 120-unit condominium project and he just kind of designs it accordingly. There are many, many constraints that have to be taken into account before you even kind of like start to draw. And one of the major constraints, you know, relates to the infrastructural, excuse me, what I term as like the institutional constraints. You have to look at what the County Zoning Code says relative to height, setback, parking requirements. You also have to look at, since this property was zoned, what was the, what were the pertinent conditions of approval that may relate to, you know, the development of this property. There are also like the archaeological issues that have to be taken into account. And pursuant to that, although there was an archaeological study prepared back when the property was initially rezoned, what the Applicants did was they then hired another archaeologist to kind of like do a more detailed inventory of that area, and that was through Haun and Associates. And through that process they have approved an archaeological inventory survey which showed that there were like three major features that had to be preserved, like the burials, and there’s like a ceremonial heiau on the property, and there’s also like a mauka-makai trail that bisects the southern portion of the property that also was recommended for preservation. So those are the kinds of design elements that had to be introduced when the architect kind of basically puts his pen or pencil in terms of coming up with the scheme. EXHIBIT C 5