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TORIGOE: This is not a simple paragraph here, so I feel a little reluctant trying to give you a simple answer to what is, you know, not a simple question. Anytime you have, well, again to go back, the representation that has been made from the Steering Committee is that this in itself does not establish any particular requirements on any particular property. It is basically requesting that the Planning Director submit a draft of a bill to the Council -. WOODWARD: So it’s a guideline; it’s not a mandate. TORIGOE: Well, at this point it’s just requesting that the Planning Director provide a draft. I suspect what you are really asking is if the draft came out, would that be something that would be legal. And that’s something that’s difficult to crystal ball really without seeing the draft in front of one. There will always be questions that arise when you’re trying to apply or change the conditions basically on properties that already have their zoning and that already have certain conditions, possibly exactions, as conditions of their zoning. So, to go back and change that would probably be something that we have to be approached on a case-by-case basis, and it will depend, too, on whether the developer has gone ahead and invested in good faith reliance on their zoning and how far they’ve gotten with that. WOODWARD: Okay, thank you. I just have a couple of other things and I’ll try to be very brief. On Page 52, I want to congratulate you incredibly for the light pollution ordinance. I think that is wonderful and I’m sorry that we haven’t seen that in the other CDPs – it’s Item 5.7. That is absolutely great. So there is the carrot. Now, another stick. On Page 106 where they are talking about access roads, access road to Queen Kaahumanu Highway, and about almost the second paragraph from the bottom there, “The County recently retained a special consultant to develop a financing plan for this second access road, and a special committee of Waikoloa community members is currently evaluating the preliminary financing plans. The consultant’s draft report estimated annual costs to Waikoloa Village home owners as follows: Existing Single Family Homes – $90 per year, Existing Multi-Family Homes – $45 per year, New Single Family Homes – $1,463 per year, New Multi-Family Homes – $731 per year.” Now, is that forever? I mean, that would seem to be what this states; it’s per year so you would think that you are not going to get a break. If you just built a house, you are paying $1,463 a year, and somebody who’s been living there for ten years is paying $90. Is that right? TSUCHIDA: These charges would not be “forever.” They would be for the number of years required to pay off a bond or bonds that would be used to finance the construction of the road. I don’t have the term of the bond in front of me, but I would think that typically this could be a 20- to 30-year bond. WOODWARD: So somebody who built a new home there is going to pay $1,500 a year for 20 years and somebody who has an existing home is going to pay $90 a year. Is that what you are telling me? EXHIBIT E 10