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pose any unsafe situation to the neighbors, I think it would be very nice to keep these trees.
<br />They are beautiful trees. And we’ll get input of the neighbors on that.
<br />And regarding the, if I may add, regarding the drainage, what we do will actually improve the
<br />situation there. Whenever there is, for commercial projects there are a lot more stringent
<br />restrictions of grading during the project than there are for residentials. In fact, the example was
<br />given that when Mr. and Mrs. Hoist were doing their project, it did cause a flood. So in fact,
<br />there will be improvement when we do that site work.
<br />FUKE: Mr. Chairman, one more comment before I turn it over to Dr. Sugai. The other issue, I
<br />think, dealt with the construction nuisance issue, you know, we are very sensitive to that issue,
<br />because if I’m putting myself in the neighbors’ place, you know, we don’t want that to happen,
<br />too. So what the owners are prepared to accept are two conditions I’d like to just kind of share
<br />with the Commission at this point in time. The first one just deals with trying to involve the
<br />neighboring community in helping better plan this property, you know, on a detail basis, whether
<br />it’s trying to site the location of buildings, trying to site any potential wastewater treatment
<br />system, these would be the septic system, where your parking is going to be, what kind of
<br />lighting it’s going to be, you’re going to have, whether there’s going be any fencing with some
<br />sort of security between neighbors, you know, those kind of things. So what we would like to
<br />suggest in that regard is that, this proposed condition is that “Prior to submittal of plans for Plan
<br />Approval, the applicant, its successors or assigns shall secure the input of area residents and/or
<br />lot owners, particularly those within the Keala Plantation Estates, regarding the placement of all
<br />proposed structures, wastewater system, parking areas; landscaping plans; fence and/or barriers
<br />between the subject property and adjacent properties; drainage; and construction mitigation. A
<br />report of this meeting shall be submitted in conjunction with the Plan Approval application.” So
<br />what this does is that, you know, the applicant might not agree with all of the suggestions, but it
<br />gives the Planning Director an opportunity, say, like, this is what the neighbors are saying, and
<br />the Director has the opportunity to, has the discretion, rather, to modify any plans that are
<br />submitted – that’s one thing.
<br />The other one deals with the construction activity, and what we’d like to suggest is this following
<br />condition that “All construction activity involving the use of heavy equipment or machinery
<br />related to the development of the project and any structures thereon shall be prohibited on
<br />Sundays, provided further that no construction activity shall occur on any day before 7:00 a.m.
<br />and after 5:00 p.m.” I know that this might not necessarily appease all; like I said, nobody wants
<br />to have bulldozing occurring at any point in time. But I think that if you look at the alternative,
<br />you know, the alternative has been like, well, let’s just have, like, a residential subdivision; if
<br />you do a residential subdivision over there, you might be able to realize, like, nine to ten lots,
<br />you know, single-family residential lots, or given the water limitation, let’s talk about seven,
<br />because right now they are limited only to seven, so if you have seven lots, then conceivably if
<br />you have a seven-lot subdivision, construction activity associated with that, and then you had the
<br />additional issue of each of those seven lots all being constructed upon, and without any controls.
<br />So what we are suggesting here is that we know for a fact that this project will be built in
<br />increments because of the water situation, they’ll have to be built in increments, and then they
<br />will be subject to additional stipulation, which normally is not found for other, you know, normal
<br />subdividers or homeowners.
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