2012-12-06 Windward Transcript Connections

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applicant. It was addressed to the Department of Water Supply and it actually has the preliminary estimate of potable water consumption. So that is one of the items requested from the Planning Commission that has been submitted to the Department of Water supply. Additionally, there was a request to work on an alternate access through the south adjoining property. A meeting was held between Mr. Bill Brilhante, Sr., the Planning Director, as well as the applicant, on th December 5 in regards to that issue. And if I could ask the Panning Director to just speak briefly about the meeting results. AU: Madam Director? LEITHEAD TODD: I’m sorry, I -? DARROW: I was just asking if you could just briefly summarize our meeting that we had with the applicant and Mr. Brilhante regarding the alternate access. LEITHEAD TODD: Mr. Brilhante is in the process of applying for a subdivision which would lie between the applicant’s property and the Puainako Extension. We don’t have a final map yet. We’re kind of in negotiations. But the reality is, is that there’s no specific timeline on any subdivision that Mr. Brilhante would put in. And if anyone is familiar with subdivisions in, on this island, between the time that somebody applies for a map to designate how many lots they’re going to put in and where the roads are going to be, it can be years before something is actually built. I live off of Wilder in a subdivision where there have been plans for, I think, the 900 acres makai of me going back to probably the 1970s or ‘80s. But I know that I first saw it on the Council agenda back in like 1993 when Brian De Lima was a Council Member, and we’ve been waiting. And I’ve been there since ‘89 and nothing has happened next door. So the reality is although the potential for connection to Puainako that could be accessed by Connections could be there in the future, the likelihood that it would be there in the near future or could be used as a primary access is highly speculative and probably cannot be a basis for a recommendation in terms of the actual application. If the application is going to proceed and be considered it has to be considered on the basis of access coming off of Edita and Kaumana as the primary. You know, and if in the future there’s an opportunity to connect to Puainako that would be great. But it would be speculative because there’s no timeline on when or if Mr. Brilhante would actually build his subdivision. AU: Okay, any questions for staff? DARROW: Mr. Chairman, I’m sorry, I still need to -. AU: Oh, okay. You’re still doing your presentation? DARROW: Yeah. Sorry about that, yeah. Okay. So in regards to the request from the Planning Commission, we’ve received the water calculations that have been submitted to the Department of Water Supply. The applicant and the Planning Director and Mr. Brilhante have had a meeting. Additionally, the Planning Commission asked the applicant to make an effort to meet with the community. At this time, 2 EXHIBIT D