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I’m not a real estate expert of any kind, and I don’t profess to be. But I am reasonably intelligent
<br />and fairly well educated. So I look at this thing, and I say, okay, it’s RS-10, so that should mean
<br />that these are 10,000-square foot lots, and I go and I look at it, and I say, okay, but I look and I see
<br />of the 53 lots in here exactly twelve of them are 10,000 square feet or greater. So I think to myself
<br />at this point, what does this mean? If that’s what’s going on, then what is RS-10 mean? It’s a
<br />random number. And this is, this is where all the confusion begins. And if we are going to have
<br />rezoning and it’s just a random number, then I don’t understand and this is where the confusion
<br />begins. And I think people find this distasteful and distrustful. So to try to better understand and
<br />decipher the rezoning, you begin to read the district rezoning regulations, which I’ve done. And I
<br />think, well, this is pretty straightforward, and then I get down to minimum building site areas, 7,500
<br />square feet, and I think, well, this is interesting, I think, okay, except, wait, out comes my
<br />aforementioned P.U.D. plan, and I see of the 53 lots and the twelve remaining lots exceeding 10,000
<br />square feet, and incredible 79 percent under the required amount, 42 lots, 14 are less than 7,500
<br />square feet, which the county law requires, the zoning law requires. So now all this smoke and
<br />mirrors and hocus pocus comes into play, and this, with these building variances, and I don’t
<br />understand. I don’t understand how this happens. All of this happens with no, nobody’s input;
<br />nobody knows what happens. The builder goes in and this meeting happens, the public doesn’t
<br />know, and all these changes happen. And people have a right to understand.
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<br />And I know that, Ms. Todd, you have the right and the responsibility to make these decisions, and
<br />you all are charged with this responsibility to make these decisions. And I understand that
<br />sometimes in the art of compromise that people are unhappy, and that you have to make decisions
<br />for public safety and for public good. But what I don’t understand is why the public isn’t allowed
<br />to know these reasons and why we aren’t allowed to hear these negotiations. And if it’s a
<br />proprietary reason or a safety reason or a security reason, I can see why that’s behind closed doors.
<br />But in lieu of that, why, why all the cloak and dagger and why all the secrecy? And I think that’s
<br />what, that’s where the bone of contention is. So if somebody can explain to me why it’s done this
<br />way, then I think we’ll all feel a lot better about it.
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<br />And having a meeting prior to a decision and we can all say, well, we don’t like this or we don’t
<br />like small lots or we don’t like whatever we don’t like, is one thing; but what happens is your
<br />decision is made, and then we find out later, but we never know why, and all we see is we have an
<br />area that once had zoning for one house on five acres and the next thing we know is we have a
<br />subdivision that has one house on 6,100 square feet, and that’s the last thing we ever hear about it.
<br />So those are the answers and those are the things I think I would like to have answers on, and those
<br />are the things I think most of our neighbors and most of the community would like to know.
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<br />GIFFIN: Thank you. Director?
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<br />LEITHEAD TODD: I thought I’d explain a little bit. Generally, when a P.U.D. comes in and it has
<br />specific zoning and, let’s say that you have a piece of property and you have RS-10 zoning, and if
<br />you were to divide it up – let’s assume for argument’s sake that it’s a flat piece of land, so you can
<br />put the roads in a straight line and you can have nice, neat, little rectangular lots – then let’s say that
<br />for your property you could have a total of 50 lots based on the zoning and based on the amount of
<br />land that you have, and you can get 50 10,000-square foot lots; but the reality is is that it’s not a flat
<br />piece of land, that it’s next to a road that’s not straight. So in order to connect to the road and have
<br />sight distance where you are going to place the connecting road, let’s say it’s Hualālai Road, that in
<br />order to have the sight distance, the road needs to connect to it at a certain point in order to have
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