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tell you its not easy work. Its probably why we dont have, you know, a great flood of
<br />youngsters going into that area. But as a community and as our duty as Commissioners, were
<br />obligated tolook at the bigger picture. I understand, you know, the owner familys perspective
<br />in terms of wanting to maximize what you can pass on your family down the road. But that, to
<br />me, is not the controlling factor. The controlling factor has to be what impact will the action of
<br />the Council ultimately have on this area in the long term.
<br />And I dont see, Mr. Nishimura is right that, you know, I dont think this is by itself is going to
<br />open a floodgate in the area. But the precedent will be set. If this is approved, the precedent will
<br />be set. Each applicant, whether its next year, or 5, or 10 years down the road, every single
<br />applicant can come in and say you did it before, now youve got to do it again. And we as a
<br />body, and the Council as a body, will be hardpresssed to say no, because the precedent will have
<br />been set. And, again, it is troubling to me that, you know, we consider these things basically on
<br />a one-by-one basis without regard, really, to the long-term effects of the action taken.
<br />And I say that to conclude, again, that I truly believe that the General Plan requirement for
<br />community development plan, they can all get together, if the community all gets together again,
<br />all the owners in this area gets together again, and says we want all our lands to be Ag-5, we
<br />want to change it all, and this is how we think its going to look in the future, that has a lot of
<br />weight to me, that would. But we dont have anything like that. So, in balance, if you look at
<br />public policy and what we should be looking at as a public policy body in implementing the
<br />public policy embodied in the General Plan and what, hopefully soon community development
<br />plans, I cannot see approving this proposal basically in a vacuum and setting a precedent that
<br />will be hardpressed not to follow in the future. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
<br />GRAHAM:Commissioner Watanabe.
<br />WATANABE:I have a question for the Director. You know, I guess this property fronts
<br />Awa Street and like I had mentioned earlier apparently its directly adjacent to an area that has
<br />been changed in the State Land Use to Urban. And Im wondering if there are any provisions on
<br />how wide is the road and, you know, like would it be advisable assuming that something like this
<br />were to go through to put in some type of provisions for road widening easements in the event
<br />that 20, 30 years from now you may actually need to widen the road, so that we wouldnt have to
<br />condemn the property or move the house because the setbacks werent right any more?
<br />YUEN:The short answer is that was not requested by Department of Public
<br />Works. The physical condition of the road is that its 20-foot wide pavement, 6-foot wide
<br />shoulders in a 50-foot wide right-of-way, which we deemed adequate for the requested rezone.
<br />And, as I said, the Public Works did not request any improvements or road widening for Awa
<br />Street.
<br />WATANABE:Follow-up?
<br />GRAHAM:You can follow-up. Please.
<br />WATANABE:So the 50-foot right-of-way already exists; and generally in most situations
<br />like an area of this size that would probably be sufficient?
<br />YUEN:Awa Street, well, its classified as a collector street for the area. Its really
<br />sort of a minor collector because of the, its a cross-street for people in the area that they use.
<br />But, you know, most of the traffic, a lot of people go directly out to Kanoelehua, so it works with
<br />a50-footright-of-way.AsIsaid,wewouldlookatthemtotellusiftheywantedanythingmore.
<br />WATANABE:Thankyou.
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