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FUKE: Okay, I think that right now the Planning Director’s hands are tied because just the way the
<br />CDP is written; the CDP is written to say that you either have this infrastructure in, or you are out,
<br />you know, you are in or out, and it doesn’t provide, there is no language in the CDP that says that,
<br />look, have the Planning Department or any agency work with the developer in trying to see whether
<br />they can accomplish the much needed infrastructure. If there were language to that extent, I can
<br />see, for example, like I would hopefully, you know, would want to have the Director come up with
<br />a favorable recommendation with conditions that require further collaboration between the applicant
<br />and the County in having the rights-of-way set aside for both the Kealaka‘a and the Kealakehe
<br />extensions, because once you get the right-of-way established, it’s merely a function of trying to
<br />find the funding, you know, for the improvements; but if you don’t have the land, it’s going to be
<br />very difficult to have the improvements completed. So the way the CDP is structured, it doesn’t
<br />give the landowner, you know, the reason to want to collaborate with government; it’s easier for
<br />them to just say I’ll just develop five-acre lots, don’t have to worry, don’t have to hustle, don’t have
<br />to worry about the affordable housing requirements, I don’t have to hustle with fair share
<br />requirements, I don’t have to worry about making this Kealaka‘a or Kealakehe Street extension, just
<br />do the five acres and get out. And so, when you look at it from a long-term standpoint, it doesn’t
<br />really do justice, you know, to what the Plan is really intended to do. The Plan, I think, the
<br />philosophy behind the Plan is not necessarily in terms of the concept or where do I want to have the
<br />land uses go; the philosophy lies in how it’s going to be implemented. And so, we are asking like
<br />whether that kind of message can be sent to the Council so that there would be an opportunity for
<br />greater collaboration between the private sector and government in fulfilling or achieving these
<br />objectives, and not simply say it’s in or out.
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<br />BOWMAN: Any other questions? Planning Director?
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<br />LEITHEAD TODD: I was just going to say that I’m having the same conversation with other
<br />property owners and not just the Kona CDP. But there are other people saying that because of the
<br />requirements and the inability to try and do like things incrementally, like, you know, I have
<br />somebody with a piece of property where a piece of a road would go through their property, and
<br />they are willing to build the piece of the road that goes through their property, but the next piece of
<br />property is not ready to go; but because I can’t get the whole thing built at one time to comply with
<br />the concurrency, I have to do a negative recommendation on the first property owner until the next
<br />one or until I can get money from the County to build the rest. I’m also having conversations with
<br />other property owners that are just saying that they will just go and subdivide to existing zoning,
<br />which means that the corridors that you are going to need for some of the infrastructure in various
<br />areas are not going to be there and you are also not going to have the -. The reality is is that in order
<br />to put some infrastructure in, you need to zone to a density that allows you to split the cost of the
<br />infrastructure over that density, and if you are just going to subdivide it five acres, then you are not
<br />going to get some of that infrastructure that you want.
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<br />And so I think with the best of intentions a lot of the CDP’s had these requirements and these
<br />concurrency issues in them, but it really didn’t take into account financing. And if you look at the
<br />Kona CDP, the idea of the Kona CDP is that, oh, government is going to pay 100 percent for some
<br />of these roads, and so the developers will sit there and the landowners have to sit there and wait
<br />until the County can come in. But the problem is is that the estimate for the infrastructure for the
<br />Kona CDP is in the neighborhood of $800,000,000, and I just don’t think that the County is going to
<br />be really realistically taking the lead on that. We have paid for a financing plan, but a lot of that
<br />requires basically doing improvement districts and then that requires collaboration, and that means
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