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the Kahului-Puapua‘a Traditional Neighborhood Development, I mean, excuse me, Neighborhood Village Transit-Oriented Development. Again, we have an aerial, and this is the general area. This, more specifically, is the general area of this particular application. The applicant is requesting a State Land Use boundary amendment from Agricultural to Urban, and a change of zone from Agricultural 5 acres to Single-Family Residential 7,500 square feet for approximately 14.707 acres of land. The reason for the request: The applicant is proposing to subdivide the property into 46 lots that are approximately 7,500 square feet in size. This is the proposed layout for the particular subdivision. Just for reference, the left side of the map would be north, the right side would be south, this is the existing Pualani Estates subdivision. As you can see, we have a proposed access connecting to the existing Pualani Estates and that’s through Paulehia Street, and then again, we have a proposed connection to the mauka property, which was identified earlier as the property owned by Hu-Ko-Pa. And they will work in conjunction with not only the mauka property, but as well as the makai property for access. Also identified is a drainage channel. And these areas here are identified as park sites on the particular layout. The Planning Director is recommending a favorable recommendation for the State Land Use boundary amendment, but they are recommending, we have submitted to the Commission an unfavorable recommendation for the change of zone request. The reasons for the unfavorable recommendation is at this time, as we had mentioned earlier about the particular property being located within the identified TOD area, in looking at the Kona CDP, we feel it’s appropriate for the applicant to come in with a master plan for this particular area to identify where the TOD for this area is located. If the applicant has options, those options would include amending the plan or again working with the Design Center to come up with a master plan for this area. Planning Director? LEITHEAD TODD: Yeah, just wanted to comment. The TOD’s are intended to be kind of like floating zones; they are not permanently fixed to where the circle is. They may not even look like a circle once you do a master plan. A TOD could end up looking like some kind of a parallelogram, it could look like a half circle because it might be constrained by particular issues. But until you do the master plan, you don’t really know what it’s going to look like.This particular TOD has several constraints on it because it is bisected by Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway. But as we looked at the CDP, we became -. And we argued back and forth in the Department, and I had conflicting input from, you know, I talked to some people who had been involved in adopting and preparing the CDP, and I had conflicting advice from different people in terms of what the intent was. But the bottom line, I ended up going with what was adopted as opposed to what somebody’s vision of what the intent might have been. And we felt that without the master plan, it becomes very difficult to approve anything within these circled areas, even if ultimately it might not be within the TOD, as it eventually gets planned, because of Queen K running through there. You’ll note that the transit corridor has already been identified makai of Queen K, because it has that little tram thing on it. And that area, some of it has already been rezoned for multiple families in my recollection and -. Yeah, right, that darker brown, that’s a higher density. And so that’s supposed to be the urban core, and then you get into more just residential outside. But we don’t have a master plan yet. And obviously, you know, I think the applicant and the applicant’s representative disagrees with my recommendation, but we felt that at this point that this was the best way to go. DARROW: Lastly, Mr. Chairman -. HOUSEL: Any questions, Commissioners? 2 EXHIBIT C