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try to balance off between healthcare providers and as well as, like, traffic. So if you hold fast to
<br />what the CDP is saying that no commercial activity, regardless of whatever is being proposed,
<br />you know, be considered for rezoning until the bypass is completed, we don’t know when the
<br />bypass will be completed. So in the alternative, you know, if that’s the case, then it amounts to,
<br />like, they don’t have any plans, they can’t proceed, they can’t necessarily start working on the
<br />final design, start working on the construction financing, so on and so forth, you know, because
<br />the banks are going to be asking when is the road is going to be done, because you can’t open it
<br />up, I mean, you know, it’s that kind of issue. But on the other hand, for my healthcare
<br />perspective, as Dr. Sugai had indicated, there is obviously like death kind of practical demand for
<br />it. So what we would like to suggest, and this is really, like, subject to the Commission and
<br />ultimately the County Council, you know, to be able to balance it off by giving the applicant the
<br />opportunity to say, like, look, no earlier than three years you can get certificate of occupancy for
<br />any structure or building. At least it gives them time to start planning for it, start doing, get the
<br />financing, do the construction, and plan around that schedule, you know, rather than something
<br />that’s totally open-ended. So if it’s something that the Commission would like to entertain, then
<br />I would like to suggest a language upon Condition E that would read, “A traffic signal at the
<br />intersection of Mmalahoa Highway and Haukapila Street shall be completed prior to the
<br />issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy for the proposed project” – it will read at the end –
<br />“provided that in no event shall a Certificate of Occupancy for any structure be issued no earlier
<br />than three years from the effective date of this ordinance” – and just, essentially eliminating what
<br />the staff had originally proposed because of the CDP concurrency requirements, and just make
<br />that as a rider at the end of the proposed condition. But I’ll leave that as an option to the
<br />Commission.
<br />HOUSEL: Commissioners?
<br />BOWMAN: I have a question. So the first phase is scheduled to take about how long, if, say,
<br />everything goes through?
<br />GHALAMFARSA: The construction phase for the first, it should not be more then nine months.
<br />BOWMAN: For the first two.
<br />GHALAMFARSA: Yes, yeah. They’ll probably go faster than building your home, each one of
<br />them. In fact, when my client approached me in our first meeting, their constant concern and
<br />point was we’ve got to keep this feel residential, they’re having a big hospital there, they have a
<br />courthouse there. So as far as I’m -. It’s a lot more cost-effective for a medical center to have
<br />one big building; it probably cost 20 percent, on the average, to 25 percent less to one building.
<br />So this is a lot more costlier than a normal commercial development. But they are really, really
<br />sensitive. But these buildings are not depicting the final look of it. The reason is that it doesn’t
<br />make economical sense to spend a lot of money in design and planning when you don’t even
<br />have the zoning yet.
<br />BOWMAN: So nine months for the first phase, but occupancy wouldn’t take place until they are
<br />all built, is that -?
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