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HOUSEL: Okay.
<br />ERROR: However, we are aware that Items 2 and 3 are similar in nature, and coincidentally have
<br />similar ownership. So in respect to your request to keep this to three minutes, I’m going to say that
<br />we are concerned about density, minute 1, minute 2 will be about density, and minute 3 will be
<br />about density. This project at 10,000 square feet, actually when you look at the detail of it, shows
<br />that 20 percent of the lots are less than that amount, ranging from 7,700 to 9,000 square feet. These
<br />lots are in contrast to all of the mauka development from this project that range from 1.5-acre up to
<br />3 acres. As we’ve said in our letter to you, this is inconsistent to have this spot zoning in this area.
<br />Density No. 2 is that this is really not a 14-acre project; this is a 60-acre project. We have four
<br />parcels that are involved, and they range all in, coincidentally, about 15 acres a piece. Now, maybe
<br />that’s a coincidence, but the fact that they have some common ownership indicates to me that
<br />maybe they are not a coincidence. We are talking really of having 200 sites in this 60-acre portion,
<br />bringing population of 800 to probably 1,000 people, and that is density question No. 2. The third
<br />point of density is that when the adjacent subdivision, Pualani Estates, was established, we were
<br />provided with a mauka-makai connector called Puapua‘anui Road, which has helped the density of,
<br />or the congestion of the traffic along Huallai Road immeasurably. Also, that project provided a
<br />very nice park for the residents and other amenities that this particular 60 acres fails to address.
<br />There is another issue here that they make no contribution to infrastructure. Flooding is a serious
<br />issue there. At times of the year when we have heavy rain in the Hlualoa vicinity, we have heavy
<br />runoff and Huallai Road has to be closed more than once in the time that we have lived here. So
<br />these three projects provide no reference to drainage or flood control, to the traffic adding to
<br />Huallai Road, and to any recreation. We look to you, Commissioners, for planning, and we look to
<br />these developers for scheming, and we hope that there will be a difference. Thank you.
<br />HOUSEL: Thank you. Cindy, I’m sorry, I forgot, are you going to testify for Lauren Burgett?
<br />COATS: I am, for Lauren Burgett.
<br />HOUSEL: Okay. Please go ahead.
<br />COATS: Since Lauren Burgett is not here and cannot be sworn in, her letter that I will submit to
<br />you all, which I think she has also emailed but we just want to make sure it’s on the books, just to
<br />express her concern as a Kona Orchards homeowner.
<br />HOUSEL: Would you like to summarize that letter?
<br />COATS: It’s a very short letter, if I can read it.
<br />HOUSEL: Yeah, please do.
<br />COATS: Okay. “My name is Lauren Burgett DiRienzo. I am a property owner in the Kona
<br />Orchards subdivision on Huallai Road, near the parcel proposed for rezoning and development by
<br />Huallai Partners of Kona, LLC. I am writing to voice my concern and my opposition to both the
<br />rezoning and the proposed development, as described in the letter sent to me by Huallai Partners of
<br />Kona, LLC.
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