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Kaahumanu Highway running in a north-south direction. The red line in the middle of the highway is the special management area line. The special management area would be makai of that line. The other reference above on the top portion of the map, we have Mamalahoa Highway running in a north–south direction. Running in an east-west direction we have Kaiminani Drive, which is within the Kona Palisades Subdivision. Also to the south we have Hina Lani Street. The area of the application is identified by this red dot in this location. The applicant Seascape Development is requesting a State Land Use Boundary Amendment from Agricultural to Urban and a Change of Zone from Agricultural 5 acres to Multiple-Family Residential 1,000 square feet for 10.001 acres of land. The applicant has represented that this will be in a 100 percent affordable housing rental project that will be targeted mainly for the 60 percent of the median income level. The project tentatively consists of 18 three-story structures identified in yellow. This will consist of 90 studio units, 108 one-unit, one-bath, or one-room, one-bath units and 108 two-bedroom, one-bath units. For reference, we have Kakahiaka Street in this particular location. And if I might come back to the location map, the area of this application is within a parcel that was previously 50 acres in size. The parcel has been subsequently subdivided and made into four lots and a roadway lot. Previously in 2004 we had an application before the Planning Commission and the County Council for a State Land Use Boundary Amendment from Agricultural to Urban and a Change of Zone from Agricultural 5 acres to Multiple-Family 4,000 square feet. The applicant who is the same applicant that we have before us today is in the process of constructing a 108 affordable housing, 108-unit affordable housing project called Seascape Condominiums. And, again, that’s located in this particular area on the site plan. There has been a question brought before the Commission regarding segmentation. At our last meeting we heard testimony from Executive Officer Tony Ching from the State Land Use Commission on the matter. Also at our last meeting, we also heard from Joel Gimpel of the Kona Traffic Safety Committee. The Planning Director is recommending that both applications, the State land Use Boundary Amendment and the Change of Zone, receive a favorable recommendation to go to the Hawaii County Council from the Planning Commission. Are there any questions? GRAHAM: Commissioners? Commissioner Alameda? ALAMEDA: Thanks, Mr. Chair. Jeff, I have one. I’ve written it down in the past but I cannot find it. What is the definition again of affordable housing? At what price range is that? DARROW: If I can direct this question to our Planning Director. Thank you. YUEN: The County has an overall ordinance on affordable housing, that’s Chapter 11 of the Hawaii County Code. And it requires developers to put in affordable housing. There’s a range that you can, there’s a range that’s considered affordable. And the developer will earn more credits if they build housing at the lower end of the range than at the upper end of the range. The complete range is, and this starts to get a little technical, housing affordable to families earning between 80 percent of the median income and 140 percent of the median income; so, and that’s for a family of four. In dollar terms the median income is, and I’m sorry, EXHIBIT C 2