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4 Leonard Librizzi: A big issue for Puako is the Ainalea project. Residents believe Puako will be a recreation area for Ainalea with impacts on water quality, trash and traffic. Further, the required affordable housing units may have been built but they are not habitable without water and electricity. The project has dragged out for a long time, and requirements may not be met. Jeannie Palermo: The Puako Association submitted a comment letter in the EIS process. It said Ainalea’s impacts are not fully addressed in the EIS, and water and sewer are not in place for the new development. Allen Salavea: Their EIS was not created recently. A court ruling has found a 9 to 10 year old EIS for whatever project will not be adequate. Ainalea may be required to re-do or supplement. It is crucial that we note community concerns to modify the South Kohala CDP.Concerns are touched on in the CDP but not to the current extent. The concerns can be highlighted so that when the Planning Department does an Environmental Assessment review, language can come verbatim from the CDP. It would help to note in the CDP that there will be impacts on Waikoloa and the north of Puako due to ocean resources there. If the applicant has received a FONSI, it has already met a certain level of no impact. Action: A copy of the Puako Association’s EIS letter will be sent to the Planning Director from the AC, requesting that she forward it to the State Land Use Commission. b) Trails and Bikeways: Leonard Librizzi reported that the project has been delayed by an issue about eucalyptus trees alongside Waimea Stream because some are opposed to cutting the trees. Fran Tabor advised that eucalyptus robusta had been planted by the Army Corps of Engineers for flood control and watershed management; the trees are also habitat for birds. She lives along the stream and mentioned indemnity and title issues. She will provide Leonard with research she has done. c) Kawaihae Marine Water Quality: Margaret Horwatt and Robin Inaba will not be able to submit a work plan at this time. d) Waikoloa Evacuation Road: Mike Fischer said that Ainalea proposes to connect its main paved thoroughfare to Hulu Street, and that can serve as an evacuation route. This contradicts what the CDP calls for. Mike proposes keeping the access as specified in the CDP and keeping the Hulu Street gate locked. It is a dead end residential street not suitable for a thoroughfare. The land is owned by the Villages of Waikoloa; a few entities have keys. Hulu Street is not engineered to play a through street role. He will draft a letter for the AC’s consideration, requesting to keep the gate locked and to consider the street solely as an emergency road. The CDP map designation appears on page 95.