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Hualālai Road, and it says, “The applicant shall provide improvements to Hualālai Road along the
<br />entire frontage of parcels 30 and 43 and transitions consisting of, but not limited to, grading,
<br />pavement widening, resurfacing, drainage improvements, and any relocation of utilities, meeting
<br />with the approval of the Department of Public Works.” We are going to request that the
<br />Commission delete the reference to Parcel 30. Parcel 30 is the notch-out that’s right next to the
<br />pink portion on the project. That’s an approximately one-acre lot or so that’s owned by Waiaha
<br />System, and that’s going to be a County water tank. We don’t control the frontage of that lot along
<br />Hualālai Road. So we would request deletion of the reference to Parcel 30. This will be consistent
<br />with what was recommended and approved by the Planning Commission in the 2010 rezoning
<br />effort.
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<br />As part of the dedication of the improvements along Hualālai Road, we are also recommending that
<br />the Planning Commission substitute the existing Condition G, which states, “All connecting
<br />roadways shall be constructed to dedicable standards and dedicated to the County or open to public
<br />traffic. Concrete curbs, gutters, and sidewalks should be required in areas of pedestrian traffic.” In
<br />the last rezoning effort, the Planning Commission approved a Condition G, which was essentially
<br />the same subject matter, and it was a little bit more detailed and it reflects our negotiations with the
<br />Department of Public Works. Understand that, you know, when we first started, there was no Kona
<br />CDP, and as we went through the process, the Kona CDP came into effect. And at the first instance
<br />no one really knew what that meant. Then as we got further on through, we found out, you know,
<br />what we had to do with respect to compliance. And this Condition G that we had in the 2010 effort,
<br />which the Planning Commission approved, I think correctly expresses our agreement with Public
<br />Works at the time. And I’ll read that to you: Condition G that we would recommend is from the
<br />2010 recommendation and it says, “The applicant shall construct within the proposed subdivision a
<br />connected road system that includes its primary subdivision access road and the future extension of
<br />Pualena Street to ‘Minor Street’ dedicable standards and dedicate at no cost to the County.
<br />Concrete curb, gutter and sidewalks shall be provided in areas of pedestrian traffic in conformance
<br />with adjoining development and the Department of Public Works’ policy. No security gate shall be
<br />installed on any roadway or entrance to this project. The developer, homeowner and/or the
<br />homeowner’s association shall be responsible for any landscaping within the right-of-way(s),
<br />meeting with the approval of the Department of Public Works, and shall repair any public facility
<br />damaged by the landscaping.” So that’s a little bit more detailed than your current Condition G, and
<br />subject to Public Works’ concurrence, we think it accurately reflects our negotiations with them to
<br />this point.
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<br />Other benefits to the County are, at the present time on drainage, the issue of drainage, mauka is on
<br />the right side of the picture, at the present time while we are not within any FEMA floodway, we
<br />are informed early on by the Department of Public Works that there is some existing drainage
<br />coming from the Kona Orchard Subdivision and properties above us, coming across Hualālai Road
<br />and going through the project. So we engaged an engineer, and I think we are probably on the
<br />fourth revision of the report with Public Works’ assistance, so we are pretty close. But effectively,
<br />what we are doing is to try to handle as much of the downstream flow as possible, you know. You
<br />may know from your work from other projects that the landowners typically don’t have a duty to
<br />take care of the mauka flows; all they do is they have a duty not to cause more flows or to
<br />channelize into one point. The developers in this case recognize it will be in everybody’s best
<br />interest to cooperate with the other landowners and to create a drainage system that works for the
<br />surrounding area, and so we are going to be doing, proposing a drainage system that creates an open
<br />area at the mauka portion of the park with drywells along the top, then some drywells that are
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