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They would like to begin construction, if all of the permits can be secured, you know, beginning in the year 2005, with an anticipated build-out over 10 or 15 years. They have applied for essentially two requests, one is the Project District rezoning and the other one is a Special Management Area. The Project District zoning is being requested because of the exact location or the type of land uses, the density. TheyÓll have to vary according to, to accommodate the demand or the time. As such the plan before board right now is purely conceptual. And the request is not to establish a specific Commercial zone, a specific Residential Zone, or a specific office zone but to provide a design or zoning flexibility, a land use flexibility, vis-à-vis the Project District zoning. What you see before you and whatÓs contained in the application represents like a worst case or like a maximum density potential; and this is just to help with the evaluation. As such, if approved, there will be conditions that would establish maximum building envelope and constraints. Generally, when you have a Project District, in my experience, you donÓt find that a person maximizes the, what was considered by the Project District; and a good case in point is the Project District that was approved for both Maniniowale as well as for Hualalai. In the situation with the Maniniowale Project District, the approved project called for in excess of 900 units, and what you see right now is a little more than 150 maximum units in that area. Relative to this specific site itself, in terms of the public access, the access to the makai property, and through this property, and eventually to the shoreline will be provided. In terms of archaeological, there is a Mamalahoa trail that will be preserved with a 50-foot wide buffer. ThereÓs also a habitation cave adjacent to the Mamalahoa Trail, and that habitation cave will also be preserved. As the Planning Director had noted earlier, based on the Traffic Impact Analysis Report, a fully channelized intersection would be constructed by the developer and traffic lights will be constructed, when warranted by, at no cost to the County developer. There would also be a north-south connector road to NELHA as well as to the south to Kohanaiki. There is an existing easement over the Mamalahoa Trail from the State that runs through the year 2007 that allows for access to the Kohanaiki property to the south as well as, that allows the Kohanaiki, that allows access to the Kohanaiki property as well as the property makai of Ooma. The Applicant is willing and actually would encourage that access through this site to minimize the number of access points on Queen Kaahumanu Highway, proximity to the Kohanaiki Business Park. The long and short of it is that, you know, we would encourage that should the Commission and the Department favorably consider this application that there would be a condition that would allow for the landowner to immediately set aside the required right-of-way to allow for adjoining properties to gain access through the site to eventually hookup to the Queen Kaahumanu Highway and thereby trying to minimize the number of access points along the 7