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he feels are, you know, guidelines that this administration feels are appropriate as far as concurrent requirements as far as any change of land use in this area. YUEN:Concurrency refers to the idea of infrastructure improvements being concurrent with this particular development. The problem that weve seen is that sometimes we approve developments expecting improvements to be made, and then they havent happened for one reason or another. Weve actually implemented concurrency pretty well with things like water system. You dont get your water, you dont develop the project until you have water commitments and the Department of Water Supply furnishes those. Where weve fallen behind really is in the regional road network. Obviously, in Kona the regional road network is inadequate. There are projects that are planned, some funded. Weve had some difficulties, as you see, recently in getting some of them built. Weareapplyingconcurrency,wearenotapplyingconcurrencyatthemomenttohousing in Kailua-Kona because we think that part of the solution to traffic in the Kona area is to get housing, specifically a moderate-income housing, affordable housing into the Kailua- Kona area. Now, this project is not specifically a moderate-income housing project but it will have a, if its approved with the recommendations that we have, well have a, you will have to include affordable housing under County Housing Code, Chapter 11. Were hoping that before any, the Council is considering modifications to that that would beef up the requirements; were hoping that those pass sometime soon. So, and then, on-site, we do expect projects, even housing projects, to deal with the immediate impact of their development on the local road system. So thats why we have these conditions on improving Hualalai Road. SPRINGER:Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA:I dont know if this is the proper time to ask, but since Director Yuen mentioned it, Id like to know if we can include something about affordable housing in our conditions? SPRINGER:Mr. Yuen? YUEN:We have a recommended condition on this and this is, the condition that we recommend is that they comply with the affordable housing policy. There are weaknesses in the current affordable housing policy. The worst thing about it is that theres a possibility of an in-lieu fee, which is very, very low, which really works out to $470 a unit. The Council can also reject the in-lieu fee, and they have on the last two or three applications that have come before it, not allow the in-lieu to be used. But we are, our recommendation is that we include the standard affordable housing condition in this rezoning application and deal with it, not specific to this project, not have a different condition for this project than other residential rezonings. 3