|
BOWMAN: Last question. Your third unit over, I guess, is in the 100-year flood line,
<br />and I notice some comments in there. Would that be the last unit to be built? The third cluster?
<br />GREENWELL: If I had my way, I’d like it to be the next one just because the building that
<br />is surrounding is, you know, not a great building. It’s an old, old building, I think, built in 1938.
<br />MELROSE: There is a picture of that building in the application. And it is a flat, level
<br />space. It’ll probably take awhile; we’ve got to deal with the flooding issue. There is a line there,
<br />but the fact is that’s not what it floods; and that just happens a lot of times with this flood line is
<br />that the water does actually flow off to the right side of the picture in a fairly defined channel.
<br />And a lot of that is created by how the water crosses Mamalahoa Highway above it, and that’s
<br />where the water flows. So there is some remake of some of the flood plans from the Hokukano
<br />Ranch above. And so we’ve done a survey, and that the line that you see to the right of that unit
<br />is kind of where we expect it to be, but we haven’t gone through the LOMA process of
<br />determining resetting that line. So whether you do or not, we could meet the AE flood
<br />requirements simply by an elevational issue with the buildings to meet the requirement. But the
<br />truth is that’s not where the water runs even in the worst of the flood times.
<br />BOWMAN: Thank you.
<br />WATANABE: Mr. Domingo.
<br />DOMINGO: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’d like to commend you for what you are
<br />doing. What I see is that you are ensuring that good agricultural land, especially well-suited for
<br />coffee, is going to be preserved. I understand that you mentioned that there’re some elderly
<br />people who cannot farm their land but you are providing the services to them. If those services
<br />were not provided, then the only alternative would be for them to sell it and, you know, one can
<br />never tell what plans those people may have with regards to the use of the land. But this ensures
<br />that it will be kept in agricultural use and especially preserving Kona coffee land.
<br />Now, I’m kind of visualizing your long-term planning as Mr. Melrose was describing. I hope
<br />that in that event you would consider, you know, the configuration of your units, you know, a
<br />center or a court where people can recreate and enjoy themselves. It’s not only work and work
<br />and work; it’s playing and enjoying themselves and, you know, they come here with various
<br />cultural practices and all that. So I hope that you would consider those requirements. And I
<br />hope, with the present configuration, you will not provide for families to come, you know,
<br />husbands, their wives and children, because that’s an opening for problems which you can
<br />imagine what might happen. She’s laughing because that’s true. You know, let me tell you
<br />about our plantation situation. As Mr. Melrose said, you go to the Japanese camp, Filipino
<br />camp, Portuguese camp and all those camps were situated by the various ethnic background.
<br />Now, of course we had individual homes at that time, not dormitories that you are proposing.
<br />And those individuals who come from other lands, they come as individuals. And they come
<br />here with, you know, their cultural practices and social needs and everything. And they are
<br />human beings. So I guess that’s why I’m Filipino-Japanese because, you know, my father is
<br />from Philippines and my mother was born and raised here in Hawaii – my grandfather came
<br />from Japan. But you know, there’s intermix of different racial backgrounds, and then I am proud
<br />EXHIBIT B
<br />16
<br />
<br />
|