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which had been identified by Paul Rosendahl in his inventory survey; so we have various sites in this area and other areas both burials and habitation sites that had been identified along buffers, and we stayed away from that. Then we looked at the gulches. There is one, itÓs rather a pronounced gulch here, which youÓll notice there is no continuation of the roadway from the northern part of the property to the southern part of the property; Belt CollinsÓ estimates are about $2,250,000 to $2,500,000 to bridge that ravine. Right now it has two 8-foot culverts under Akoni Pule Highway, so itÓs a very well-defined, established gulch, and to try to build an internal bridge over it would be prohibited; it wouldnÓt make any sense at all to try to bridge here. So we are showing of the two access points, permitted access points we have here, which one lines up directly opposite to the Kohala Ranch intersection and then moving, southern access to the southern side of this gulch to access these four proposed lots here. This particular configuration provides a situation where there is a minimal amount of disruption to the existing landforms, so that we are keeping grading cost down, keeping setbacks up. We are trying to avoid all the archaeological features so that we donÓt have to go through data recovery where that would be expensive, you know, where we have to remove the sites; if we can preserve the sites in place, and thatÓs what we would like to do. And certainly moving away from the 50 lots that had been proposed by the current zoning, that gives us the opportunity to avoid a lot of those constrains. So that kind of leads you to where we are today and the thought process as we have as far as how this site plan was developed. If you have any questions, IÓm certainly willing to answer. WATANABE: Do we have any questions of Mr. Mooers or -? Yes, Mr. Housel. HOUSEL: How many lots are you now considering? MOOERS: This would, this represents twelve lots. HOUSEL: Twelve lots. And this is 37 acres, is that correct? MOOERS: ThatÓs correct. HOUSEL: Okay. And what type of zoning are you asking for? MOOERS: That would, well, we would be asking for RA-3a, which is Agricultural 3-acre zoning. I think initially, the current zoning allows for up to 50 homes to be built on the property, and the previous Planning Director had asked for seven; so weÓve gone from 50 to twelve. ItÓs slightly more than what Mr. Yuen had asked for, but we believe itÓs a reasonable use given the surrounding zoning. And you may recall a month and a half ago I was before you with a FA-3a zoning just above the highway that you gave a favorable recommendation to. So we believe thatÓs consistent with the much of the surrounding zoning. HOUSEL: In your current proposal, the properties that, the lots that seem to be on the north end of the property have fairly long driveways, is that correct? MOOERS: One does, yes. EXHIBIT B 4