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Planning Department will be making in reference to the access number 2, Kuakini Highway access, which is this particular access here. In our background and recommendation we refer to it as a right in andright out. But with our, with our recent change in the condition which we received just recently we had sent out this particular revision this morning. And so we had made the changes last night. We would also like to reflect the background and rec. to reflect that this will be a right out only unless at a time in the future the Department of Public Works feels that it, otherwise. The Planning Director is recommending that the Planning Commission send a favorable recommendation for both applications to the Hawaii County Council. Are there any questions? ALAMEDA:Commissioner McCall questions for Staff? MCCALL:Yeah, can you give me a update on the current disposition of the Suffolk and Puaa Development projects? Just where they are in the planning? DARROW:In the background recommendation oh Im sorry the background report under surrounding properties gives a little bit of information regarding those particular applications. They actually were, were passed from the County Council. MCCALL:Theyre both passed by the County Council? DARROW:Yes. MCCALL:Okay. ALAMEDA:Thank you Commissioner McCall. Commissioner Graham? GRAHAM:Jeff if you dont mind Id like to ask maybe a series of questions just really pin down what the housing, affordable housing offer and proposal really amounts to. So Ill just start. Our condition D speaks of not less than 50 percent of the units shall be sold or rented etc. at prices that you know qualify as affordable housing. Lets see, my understanding of the current policy is its, our general policy is like 20 percent right now but that 20 percent is based like on the median income, that would be affordable to the median income. But if you make them affordable to someone earning less they can count maybe up to 2 for 1. But if you make them affordable to someone making more lets say 120 percent or they still have affordable value but there maybe only count half as much or something right? So by saying in this proposed ordinance that 50 percent should be affordable its not really comparing with that 20 percent right? It could be that a regular development that wants to make their affordable units affordable to somebody making 120 percent of the median would have to make 40 percent affordable because theyre only getting half credits for that. So if this one is saying 50 percent are they really only 10 percent away from the normal? And maybe the Planning Director has a comment on that. ALAMEDA:Director Yuen? EXHIBIT B 3