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saying one thing yesterday and something today, and then we are hoping that you agree with her
<br />initial recommendation and our position today.
<br />And one final comment that one way or the other, ultimately – the CDP is something that we have
<br />to live with – and ultimately the one that really provides, that needs to provide guidance one way or
<br />the other, as in the previous application, is the entity that approved the Plan, and that is the County
<br />Council. So whether this body recommends favorably or unfavorably, we strongly recommend,
<br />take a position one way or the other, and let the County Council be saddled with this task in trying
<br />to clarify this. And hopefully, they will conclude, as I’ve tried to indicate, that this is your core, and
<br />that the request then fulfills the spirit and the concept of a Neighborhood TOD. Thank you.
<br />HOUSEL: Any questions of the applicant, Commissioners? Mr. Fuke, I had one question. On the
<br />mauka property, is there any open space planned?
<br />FUKE: The open space planned right now is, like, along this area because there’s a drainage system
<br />that comes along this way and – I forgot to mention that – see, right now, it’s like a major drainage
<br />system that goes this way and the balance of it kind of like sheet-flows over here. And so what they
<br />want to do between these two property owners at their expense – they are spending more than
<br />$6,000,000 for a drainage improvement – is to kind of like intercept the water so that it eliminates,
<br />you know, the sheet-flow coming into the Pualani area and put it down along this road and into a
<br />confined area. So the open space area is pretty much along the edge and also running this way. The
<br />natural boundary, however, for – I would rationalize in terms of, like, the green space area – your
<br />physical boundary would be the existing stream that goes this way, mauka-makai. Notwithstanding
<br />that, between these two property owners, to accommodate the drainage system, what they’ve had to
<br />do is set aside considerable land, and they are going to have, like, a walking path adjacent to the
<br />floodway; the walking path will probably approximate about two, two and half acres.
<br />HOUSEL: Will the floodway be improved, or will it be left in the natural state?
<br />COOK: Yes. When we acquired the property, we had a flood study done because it falls within the
<br />FEMA’s map of 100-year storm. The FEMA map showed the 100-year storm, which was
<br />referenced as Splitflow 2, coming to my property for the most part and then at the very southern
<br />makai corner going into JKS property, and at that point it would flow right into the gunite-lined
<br />channel that’s there. When we did the flood study and cut the 2-foot contour, we found, as many
<br />times it does, the floodplain doesn’t run where it was shown on the FEMA map. Those maps were
<br />done a lot of times on aerial photos and the 5-foot contour. So when we did the final study, we
<br />found that the floodplain as it comes through the property, just barely starts at the bottom edge to
<br />my property and then it goes over through, and at the very corner there at the south corner in the
<br />highway is where it’ll actually flow into the highway and won’t even get into the channel to go
<br />through the multi-celled box culvert for the roadway. So what we’ve designed by working together
<br />is catching the – there is a CLOMR on Bolton’s property next door to us, because Splitflow 1 which
<br />goes under a culvert over here, they’ve got a CLOMR for the development of that, and we have
<br />Splitflow 2 that comes through our property – so we’ve designed this channel to catch it to get it
<br />into that gunite channel, then it would go under the multi-celled box culvert into the area just below
<br />the park. And there, there’s the State highway with the project we have on the lower side, Pualani
<br />Makai, and when we did the flood study, it determined that a 100-year flood would reach over that
<br />highway some 400 feet and possibly wash out the highway. We had to go in and design to correct
<br />the problem for the State highway. Our engineer, we just got the plans approved in February of this
<br />year, I think, to put in a new aluminum multi-plate culvert; it’ll be 20-foot wide, 14 feet high and
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