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had to be out of the country at this meeting, but today with me are his sons, the Barrett brothers,
<br />Lee, Al and Rick, as you go down the table. Thank you for hearing our application. We have been
<br />here before, and I think at least two of you were there the last time that we came in 2010.
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<br />The applicant’s proposal is for 43 lots. And we’ve met with the community and been through the
<br />process since really 2006. The proposal has changed from smaller lots to bigger lots, and
<br />effectively, what we are at, and the market has changed at the same time, so effectively, what you
<br />see proposes 43 lots, and if you can shoot – can you change the graphic to the project plan?
<br />Thanks, Daryn. So you can, the darker green is at the mauka side of the property with Hualālai
<br />Road running down on the north side, and to the bottom of the picture is the south side of the
<br />property, and that’s the extension into the next door property, which is vacant, what they call
<br />Pualena Street Extension. We are proposing to do a 50-foot wide minor street standard, and
<br />dedicate that to the County at no cost. The street would connect up through the vacant property at
<br />some point in time to the Sugar Cane Lane Subdivision, which is also a 50-foot wide dedicated,
<br />dedicable minor street. That leads into some of our comments on the background and the proposed
<br />conditions. I think I’ll get to that towards the end of our presentation. But I think what you will
<br />probably hear after we are done at the table here is that you will hear a lot of testimony from the
<br />adjoining residents, and I think most of them are related to density, traffic, and those are things that
<br />we see as major points now. We’ve had our traffic study conducted for both the Puapuaanui Street
<br />side and also the Hualālai Road side, and the proposed access will come through this project; the
<br />primary access will be down through the project into the Hu Ko Pa project, which is below it, and
<br />onto Hualālai and also in the southerly direction down Paulehia Street to Puapuaanui Street and into
<br />the signalized intersection at Queen K Highway. We expect most of the traffic will go in the
<br />direction just as a matter of ease of traffic flow. What you see on this project plan is evolution
<br />based upon some of the discussions with the Council and the community. And I think the pink
<br />entry of the project way onto Hualālai Road is the result of one of the suggestions from the Council
<br />the last time we went through there in terms of expressing some concern on it being a big
<br />cul-de-sac, and so you should have another entry out onto Hualālai Road. Now, whether that’s
<br />going to work out in the end engineering-wise or traffic-wise is another question; we checked with
<br />our engineer, and the particular location out onto Hualālai Road that you can see with the pink trees,
<br />I think they are, that is possible with a design speed of approximately 30 miles per hour, which I
<br />think is the current speed limit on Hualālai Road. Twenty-five? Twenty-five, excuse me. So that’s
<br />possible, not optimum. What we may end up doing is to combine the access from the Hu Ko Pa
<br />project, which is makai, and the access from this project in one location just about at the boundary
<br />of the two projects, because that is the best location for the project access in terms of sight distance
<br />and safety.
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<br />The advantages of the project that the County will get is that you will get a north-south connectivity
<br />both from the Pualena Street Extension, excuse me, the Pualena Street Extension when that gets
<br />extended, and you will also have it from the Paulehia Street Extension through the makai property,
<br />Hu Ko Pa, because we’ll connect that up to the project. You’ll also get I think well-needed
<br />improvements to Hualālai Road; everybody recognizes that’s a substandard road both in terms of
<br />construction and right-of-way. So this project will be contributing the additional right-of-way and
<br />constructing the improvements of Hualālai Road on its side of the property, so it will increase the
<br />traffic safety in that area.
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<br />One of our proposed revisions to the conditions of approval relates to the issue, and that would be
<br />proposed condition of approval I, like in India, the condition relates to the improvements of
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