2018-01-18 Leeward Exh B (AMEND SMA 412, REZ 17-225 & SMA 17-068))

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condition like about drainage, what the flooding is, you know, your tsunami hazard line, you know, the topography, all those kinds, they have to take those things into consideration. But there are other things that I’d like to kind of highlight for you, and they are kind of like in this binder. One of the things that they had to look at was, you know, first of all like on the first page it’s like, what is the General Plan show? You know, the General Plan shows Resort, because obviously the General Plan, and I have that map, if the General Plan were, you know, Conservation District for example, then you know that it was not possible. So that’s one of the first steps they had to look at; they had to look at what the General Plan is. And then the second sheet is like, you know, what’s the zoning? And the zoning of this property, you know, like as the staff indicated, is Resort, and there is zoning on the properties all south of that is all Open; it’s basically all the way up until Hualālai it’s all Open. And so what this map graphically tries to illustrate, you know, the second and, the second map is from the General Plan standpoint and the zoning standpoint, you know, this is really like the age of any urban expansion, you know, in this particular area. Moving south until you hit Hualālai, because of the General Plan considerations, basically what you see now is probably what will be there in probably all of our lifetime. The third sheet, the third sheet I included was like what the zoning is. And so, you know, so they have to look at the regulation; they look at the General Plan and they look at like what the zoning is. And the zoning on the property is Resort, and when, you know, Mr. Head had asked me like what are my thoughts, I said like, well, probably it’s resort, some sorts of resort things, but I think you should look at some lower density activity, and lower density, you know, try to keep it like at residential level scale. And that’s the reason why, you know, and to their credit, you know, they accepted my recommendation to go over the residential scale. The residential scale for, the lowest for single-family residential is RS-7.5. If you look at all in the resort’s one, and this is the zoning map for the Waikoloa area, you see like V-1.25; V-1.25 suggests one unit for every 1,250 square feet. If you look at the other one, RM, RM-1.5, RM-6, they all suggest one unit for every 1,500 square feet, one unit for every 6,000 feet. So in relation to the overall Waikoloa Resort area, from our resort standpoint or residential standpoint this would be the lowest zoning density, V-7.5. Then, you know, they had to look at like the archaeological considerations, and this kind of like led to the delay and perhaps, you know, I take some fault in that. But they had like an, already, SHPD, State Historic Preservation Division, approved archaeological inventory survey, so what I have there is like a letter that’s dated October 23, 1996, and basically saying that they approve the site, or approve the plan, approve the archaeological preservation program for this plan. They said, had only four stuff, four things, which are like two petroglyphs, and which were pointed out by Maija, you know, Ms. Jackson, and there were also two anchialine ponds. If anything, those would be the four things that will require preservation. And then on May 16, 2001, they approved the preservation plan, you know, along those lines. The staff also kind of pointed out, you know, that the other sheet I had like from Nā Ala Hele, and Nā Ala Hele, you know, back in October 30, 2000, basically said, and I highlighted it for you, “the State Historic Preservation Division has not recommended the trail for preservation because sites of similar types are preserved elsewhere in the resort area.” So, you know, we kind of like started, you know, like on some of these parameters and, you know, on hindsight they were antiquated, but nevertheless we used these as kind of like initial benchmark to start the planning process. 11 EXHIBIT B