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of the SMA, but in the interest of time I’d just like to summarize it, and of course we’ll be open
<br />for questions on various issues areas, if you have questions. To summarize, construction of the
<br />proposed improvements is not anticipated to cause any adverse impacts to water quality, scenic
<br />and recreational amenities, and will not increase the risk of flood, erosion or siltation. Potential
<br />short-term related air and water quality impacts will be avoided and mitigated through the
<br />implementation of appropriate best management practices. Permits for stormwater discharges
<br />will be obtained. The project is not anticipated to have cumulative impacts, as it involves the
<br />expansion of an existing master-planned resort area that is being developed at much lower
<br />densities than originally proposed. The project will not restrict public access to tidal lands,
<br />marshlands and beaches, and will not interfere with or detract from the line of sight toward the
<br />sea from State highways. Finally, the project will have no effect on water quality, fishing
<br />grounds or water life habitat.
<br />At this time I’d like to call on our principal architect for the project, Ernie Vasquez of MVE
<br />Pacific, to walk you through the site plan.
<br />VASQUEZ: Thank you, Alan. Ernie Vasquez, 1100 Alakea Street, Honolulu. MVE
<br />Pacific is the firm that’s involved with the planning. This is an overview of the overall site that
<br />from last year we have made some significant changes and that was primarily the reduction of
<br />the hotel from a six-story to a four-story; so when we talk about the hotel component, we have
<br />lowered that from where we were last year. But the thrust behind the planning has been to really
<br />enhance the main existing road, Hoohana Road, to a nicer, upgraded boulevard, so that we have
<br />all of our entrances coming off of that main entrance. Each of these planning areas stands alone
<br />with its own, shall we say, recreational amenity, its own sort of district. So when we look at
<br />Parcel 1, for example, there’s a two-story to three-story, in the second parcel. They are also
<br />connected by pedestrian connections. We want to be able to walk from one village to the other
<br />village. So we’ve tried to design in each of these parcels not only vehicular circulation for
<br />accessibility for parking but also pedestrian connectivity, so that we can have people walking
<br />from one village over to the resort, to the hotel, to the amenities, to the spa. So we are trying, in
<br />all of this, trying to create the concepts that we see in a lot of our planned communities, and we
<br />are trying to do more of a walkable community concept. So the idea behind the densities is, one
<br />of, looking at two- and three-story for-sale resort condominiums to villas, the lower density,
<br />which is almost the lowest density in the parcels – this has one-story – it’s geared more to our
<br />move-down buyers; it’s geared to a different segment of the community. The idea behind, shall
<br />we say, even the residential, and one of the parcels that we have, Parcel 4, it also could be
<br />phased, could be early access off of the main road. It’s the only parcel that has access off of this
<br />road; everything comes in off of the Hoohana Road. We see upgrading that road, we see making
<br />that richer sort of sense of entry, to also help the rest of the community have access to what’s
<br />currently there, the childcare center in that area. We took liberties of reshaping the open space to
<br />create better visibility for the residential to the open space by providing the three holes. We also
<br />look at trying to create, shall we say, a sense of identity in the entrance coming in perpendicular
<br />to Hoohana Road with its access coming into the hotel component and the bungalows.
<br />And I know one of the Commissioners asked the question of the keys. The idea behind the keys,
<br />for example on the bungalows, is a buyer could buy a two-, three- or four-bedroom home, and
<br />then put it into the pool of the hotel, so that it could be managed; that one unit that could be a
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