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to in a straight shot to the comfort station, thatÓs what determined that. The alignment is also in a location that has been surveyed and is found free and clear of archaeology. So that in terms of why itÓs located there, itÓs a matter of being the, sort of the most cost- effective location for them. In terms of the trails, the mauka-makai trail, weÓre currently working with the Na Alahele group in determining the function of the, treatment of the mauka-makai trail, and access along that trail and following that process and review with the Kupuna Advisory group. WeÓll be recording a public easement over that trail. So there will be, thereÓs a trail connection going down from, you know, from, along the mauka-maka the park improvements. And in terms of my comments with regards to Mr. Hartman before, we had talked to Mr. Hartman just before this meeting. And one of the things that we agreed to was to take the plans once theyÓre completed and sit down with him and review those plans with him, so that we could get his input and guidance in terms of how to do that in the best way possible. TAGUCHI:Not only Mr. Hartman, but if there are other people in the handicapped community who would, you know, wants to take a look at it and help us -. I mean, we donÓt really know some of the difficulties. I mean, yo are, letÓs say, in a wheelchair or if you are visually impaired. I mean, we take too many things for granted and we need, you know, help from these people called experts, ADA guys; but, you know, I think until you walk in their shoes you donÓt really know how tough it is. LEONARD:And we had some recommended amendments to the conditions approval if we could. Just as a matter of providing a little bit of flexibility in terms of one of the things that theyÓd like to do is to be able to get going on the improvements as soon as possible, as soon as they get the permit approvals and plan approvals, get going on that as quickly as possible, and just in the interest of providing some flexibility to the State in terms of how theyÓre using the resources down there. For Condition 2, which refers to compliance with Rule 17, the Landscape Rule, we havenÓt looked at that closely. But just to give them flexibility so that they know that they can do the improvements that are proposed down there and those monies donÓt otherwise go to meeting some landscape requirement that may be part of the rule, IÓd like to request that additional language be added to the extent that it would read, ÐExcept as modified by agreement between the County Planning Department and the Division of State ParksÑ and just add that phrase if we could. And IÓve given these suggested amendments to the staff as well. In Condition 3, if we could, itÓs just to -. Because there are, every archaeological feature has been recorded down there that has been found; and some of them, it may be as small as a rock on top of a boulder or something like that. So just to give a little bit of flexibility there, at the end of Condition 3, instead of saying, Ðprovided that no 21