The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 29

n-Tl-jf yr. i-T jn in If ar i -fHmyf O) awtowe section The Sunday Star-Bulletin Advertiser by Ginnatt Pacific Corp. All right nrvd. Prepared by the atari of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin January 4, 1987 Hawaii Loa Ridge to Open Security Center iff 'WW 1rs By jerry Tune 4. fat Star-Bulletin Writer A sophisticated $400,000 security center is slated to open later this month at Hawaii Loa Ridge, the $100 million-plus fee simple luxury development in East Honolulu.

"We believe our new security center is unique to urban Honolulu," said James Ohlman, president of HMF developer of the 200-acre single-family community. "Although we suspect it will be viewed as the forefrun-ner for Oahu's planned communities of the future." The' security center features a 24-hours a day year-round manned security station and state-of-the-art video surveillance technology. Additionally, the duty guard will have electronic contact with guards on patrol. Use of the security system comes at a time when Hawaii Loa Ridge is seeing an influx of Japanese buyers. "They see good security and they buy," said Ohlman.

Hawaii Loa Ridge has a mix of buyers from Japan and the Orient, together with local professionals who are building their dream home. HMF which was acquired by Guardian Industries in 1985, predicts that they will sell out the ridge in about four or five years. The figures Jor Hawaii Loa Ridge re( impressive: Of the 240 lots in the first four increments, only 17 are 8." f.J.-bn&ZLjgS conception of new security system. By Terry Luke, Star-Bulletin trant screening without hassle. Owners are issued an automobile ID and are waived in by the guard as they are recognized." Final procedures for entrance to Hawaii Loa Ridge are being worked out now, according to Ohlman, who said HMF and Group 70 are studying other secured communities in the nation before making their own final plans.

Lot sales last year were from $110,000 to $395,000. There are 87 homes completed or under construction, and 60 of these are occupied. VB Of the 87 homes, 87 have Only Tx of tfeeec hom; been put up by spec builders, are unsold. There are about 10 spec builders do work on the 1 There are 91 lots' in the i Artist's situated in the center of Hawaii Loa Ridge's private access roadway, Puuikena Drive, and features a poured-in-place concrete, landscaped, trellis with support walls and columns. It harmonizes with the ridge's natural terrain and contoured private street schematics.

HMF's $400,000 expenditure includes infrastructure preparation, creation of a U-turn and rerouting of utility lines, as well next increment at prices from $142,000 to $284,000. Most of the homelot prices are in the range of about $425,000 to $800,000. The security center was designed by Norman G.Y. Hong, Pftner for 2 -70 architects, planners and interior designers. Julie Walters of Walters, Kimura Associates, was the landscape architect.

The 120-squa re-foot facility is Details of the "development plan include: Approximately 1,010 low-density apartment and town-house units. Some 5,630 single-family dwellings, which may range in type from luxury homes to conventional subdivisions to zero-lot-line and cluster developments. At least 10 percent of the total number of units will be targeted for households in the low-moderate to gap group categories and may be located on-site. (The gap group category refers to those families who make too much money to qualify for subsidized housing programs but not enough to afford market-priced housing). Sites reserved for a neighborhood commercial center, two elementary schools and one intermediate' school, a district park, three neighborhood parks, three' recreation centers, and several churches.

A college or university site which is large enough to accommodate' the University of Hawaii's West Oahu College, as design, construction and materials. Ohlman indicated that the community, bounded by sheer cliffs and designed with only one entrance-exit road, already protects homeowner privacy. "The security center, whose cost was borne totally by HMF and which we will deed to the homeowners association, is icing on the cake," said Ohlman. "Our buyers seek effective en- College development of a 20-30 acre site)." A park-and-ride transit facility where commuters can leave their cars and take the express bus to work. It could also be used for a station stop if a fixed rail system is built out to Mililani.

"The facility will be located so that it can also serve as parking for the district park, the adjacent recreation center, and churches on weekends and evenings," said the EIS. Coordination with adjacent land uses and existing developments has been an important part of the planning process, according to the firm of Helber, Hastert, Van Horn and Kimura, Planners. From October 1984 to June 1985, planners and developers held a series of six meetings with an advisory committee comprised of representatives from 26 community organizations in Mililani. The idea for Mililani Town originated in the late 1950s, when the Hawaiian Pineapple Company, subsequently merged into Castle Cooke began exploring ways of diversifying rrSf mm t-. v- lAS I A A It I Mauka Plans for Campus the use of their large land holdings in Central Oahu.

An inter-disciplinary team of planners, economists, engineers and designers prepared a 20-; year development plan for the; new community named Mililani Town. On the basis of the; Master Plan," as it came to be known. Castle Cooke's development Oceanic Properties created Mililani Town Inc. as the corpo- rate entity charged with imple-; mentation of the plan. Sales began in 1968.

The acre Mililani-Mauka site is the; final phase of the original plan-; ned residential community of I Mililani Town. The initial phases of Mililani (makai of the H-2; Freeway) cover approximately 2,300 acres of land and houses approximately 26,500 residents in 7,861 homes. "Since 1973, the demand for detached single-family homes at Mililani Town has outpaced sup- ply, except during the brief periods of high interest rates," said the EIS. "As a result of this demand, it is estimated that the area makai of the freeway will be fully developed by 1990 under the current construction timetable." Mililani By Jerry Tune Star-Bulletin Writer The major proposal to build more homes at Mililani Town in an area known as "Mililani Mauka" will go before city planners and the state Land Use Commission this year and it includes a site reserved for a second university campus, or a private college. The Mililani Mauka proposal was turned down by the commission last May.

At the same time, the commission, by one vote, turned down a compromise that would have allowed Mililani Town to build on about half of the proposed acreage for expansion. The proposal for Mililani Mauka includes housing for a population of 21,000 and sites reserved for a college campus and a retirement community. The proposal from Mililani Town Inc. follows the original long-term goals for Mililani Town "and is contained in an environmental impact statement sent to the City Department of General Planning. Wallace Miyahira, senior vice president at Oceanic Properties Housing, should the university choose to locate a campus in this area.

"Preliminary discussions have taken place with the university administration, but no commitments have been made," according to the EIS. "If the university does not choose to utilize the site, efforts will be made to find another college, vocational school, or private educational institution to occupy the site which is located across the gulch from the Hawaii Technology Park and could be the basis of a beneficial symbiotic relationship." The Mililani-Mauka Advisory Committee identified a retirement community as a desirable element of the Mililani-Mauka land use plan. "Should market conditions warrant, the community could consist of a full range of housing from full-service care facilities to detached single-family dwellings," according to the EIS. "It could also contain a senior citizens' center as a social and recreational gathering place for the community's residents. (Discussions with retirement community operators have indicated that projected market conditions may ultimately support the and president of Mililani" Town said the Mililani Mauka proposal will go before the city Elanning process and the state and Use Commission sometime in the next six months.

A final decision on the general plan change probably will take place about July and any development plan change by the end of 1987. On the college site, Miyahara said that University of Hawaii planners have said that any decision is "years" off in the future. He said that the college site is in the third phase of the Mililani Mauka project and that would not be until sometime in the 1990s. The Mililani Mauka site is classifed in the agricultural land use district. Two sides of the parcel are bounded by urban land uses, which consist of the current makai portion of Milani Town to the southwest, and a newly designated urban area to the northwest that will be developed into the Hawaii Technology Park.

The mauka and southeast borders are adjacent to conservation district and agricultural lands, respectively. The agricultural land is presently under pineapple production. A.