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The last issue that’s raised generally by all of the letters is that there’s a change in the character of the neighborhood. And, you know, we understand the issues of people who have lived in the neighborhood for 25, 30 years plus, some of them 40 years, I think. And I think what we face is what everybody faces when you come in with a new rezoning, which is you have to look at what the General Plan for the County shows. And as you can see through the orange color that’s all mauka of the Kapiolani Street in this area, this area is all designated and has been designated for years for Medium Density Urban uses which allows higher density uses than just Single Family. Some of the uses that are allowed in the Medium Density Urban District are Village and Neighborhood Commercial uses, and Single and Multi-Family Residential uses up to 35 units per acre. In this particular case we are proposing 100 condominium units or apartment units on approximately 5 acres of land. The 100 units, it’s about a 31 percent reduction in the allowable density for the property already. So we feel that both for purposes of the actual unit count for the property that you could develop to and for the General Plan compliance that the project is appropriately processed under the Medium Density Urban designation. And we feel that because of the County’s, that’s the County’s policy so we would ask that you support our change of zone request. WOODWARD: All right, thank you very much. Does anybody, does any of the Commissioners have any questions for Mr. Lim? IWASHITA: Yes. WOODWARD: Commissioner Iwashita. IWASHITA: Good morning, Steve. As far as the drainage issue, I guess, your understanding is that makai of your client’s property, the County is planning on making further acquisitions. Is there an overall plan of where all this water is going to end up? LIM: I’ll try to show you Figure 2.4 out of the, I have the Draft Environmental Assessment. But as you can see coming mauka from above the property where our project area is located -. IWASHITA: Is that in my record? LIM: No, no it’s not. But this is just to show you kind of where the drainage is coming down, and our project area is right around in this bottom area. So you can see the dark purple at the top of Kapiolani Street, that’s where the drainage parcels are. We think the County is going to end up with three separate parcels to be used as a -. They’re going to dig it out. That’s what’s happening as a practical matter now. But they’re going to improve it and put in the County standard drainage improvements in that area. So it will pond up just mauka of Kapiolani Street and percolate down. IWASHITA: So above the police station? LIM: That’s correct. I don’t think that they had any alternative because of the existing development of both the police station facilities and civil defense facilities makai. 5 EXHIBIT A