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STOCKTON: I think it was seven.
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<br />FOULK: --2007, and a favorable recommendation, we needed to, an updated TIAR, a traffic
<br />study, and during the course of that traffic study, changes happened, and both the traffic
<br />requirements and the water requirements, and so on, so it’s taken a long time to get to here, but
<br />there hasn’t been a single lapsed period throughout that last 7 or 8 years, we’ve all been working
<br />on one piece or another of this to try and get it resolved with the Water Department. The
<br />Department of Transportation for the State, and we’ve done that, so, so here we are. In a
<br />nutshell, Ocean View is, generates an astonishing amount of traffic on the, to and from Kona.
<br />Just for basic needs, you know. If you live down in Ocean View, you have to drive 38 miles to
<br />get a haircut or to do this or to do that. Every single thing you do. And so, one of the big ideas
<br />here was to pull those cars off the road and keep ‘em local. Also, that area really can’t get a life
<br />of its own until there are places for various professionals and stuff to hang their shingles, and to
<br />practice, and I think that a lot of the folks like me and others would attract even more businesses
<br />into this facility if, if people saw that there was a real live, new, clean building that you could
<br />move into as a professional. There’s certainly, with more than 2,000 residents down there,
<br />there’s certainly a large enough base to support that.
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<br />There’s 1.1 million visitors a year, drive by there on their way to Volcano. And that’s also, those
<br />people don’t have any place to stop and take a break, stretch their legs, you know, there—do
<br />some shopping, have something to eat, and I think that this is really exactly what’s needed for
<br />that.
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<br />MIYASATO: Commissioners--Commissioners, any questions for the applicant?
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<br />HENKEL: Myles.
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<br />MIYASATO: Commissioner Henkel.
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<br />HENKEL: I have a question. In the proposal, towards the rear on, I don’t see a page number or
<br />anything, but it’s from the State of Hawai‘i, Department of Health, Safe Drinking Water Branch,
<br />but on the first page, it says the project qualifies as a public water system, and on the next
<br />document from that same State Department of Health, Safe Water Drinking Branch, it says the
<br />proposed project does not meet the definition of a public water system, and I was wondering if
<br />somebody could clarify that for me.
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<br />FOULK: Yeah, I’m going to turn you over to Peter Dahlberg, our civil engineer who did all of
<br />those, those documents.
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<br />MIYASATO: Excuse me, would you please raise your right hand?
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<br />DAHLBERG: Yes, Commissioner.
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