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TOGASHI:Oh, 260 feet. But anyway, never the less, you spoke about some current
<br />concern over the size limitations of this lot. And letÓs say had this lot been maybe two or
<br />three times in size, that you could conceivably, had it been two or three times the size of
<br />the existing size that conceivably the developer could have perhaps built his project on
<br />one end of the, furthest away from the Keakealaniwahine Complex. And yet, I guess, my
<br />concern is that you describe the, or spoke of the size limitation, but yet you did not feel
<br />that the scale of this project needed to be scaled back. And you felt that essentially the 13
<br />unit or did you say seven building, is it seven-, eight-building complex is, is appropriate
<br />even for this, and any recognition of the proximity of this lot to Keakealaniwahine. And
<br />IÓm just trying to get a better feel of your, that statement the
<br />YUEN:I donÓt have an issue with the number of units per se in the sense of itÓs
<br />going to have too many people around the area, or too many cars, or too much activity.
<br />My, what I, when I spoke of the size of a lot, what I meant was that itÓs, itÓs very difficult
<br />to have a meaningful or effective buffer simply by distance. You know, the more typical
<br />thing is to try to, say you have a public beach area, and you have a development youÓre
<br />trying to buffer the public beach area from the development; and the person has a lot like
<br />in, along the north Kona coast. They might have a lot thatÓs a mile deep and are coming
<br />in for a development. Well, then you have a lot of space that they can, you can work with
<br />and create an effective buffer and they still have space to build on.
<br />On this site, itÓs difficult. I donÓt know that just based alone, if you pushed them, youÓre
<br />trying, I am trying to accommodate the economic desires of the owner. And itÓs very
<br />difficult to do that with space on this property. So that was the, so thatÓs the tact I took,
<br />was to try to do that with landscaping. I think you still need some space for landscaping,
<br />but Î.
<br />TOGASHI:So youÓre saying that the economic rights of the landowner does hold
<br />some weight in your decision. And, I guess, you spoke of that analogy of having
<br />development next to a public beach. And if you applied that same analogy to a smaller
<br />property like this of 1.2 acres, would it not be analogous to say to reduce the scale of this
<br />project here in the same analogy of a public beach next to a development, would it not be
<br />analogous to do that, too?
<br />YUEN:You might go through some of these same kinds of analysis.
<br />using that as an example of some place if you have a deep enough lot, you can use space
<br />as the buffer. In this case, they donÓt have a very, a very deep lot. And so my approach
<br />was to use landscaping as a buffer.
<br />And in regard to the first part of your question, yes, itÓs part of my responsibilities to take
<br />into account the economic interest of a private landowner.
<br />TOGASHI:Rather than just the landowner right to use his property? You know what
<br />IÓm saying? I mean, there are landowner rights, and economic rights, and -.
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