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CARR SMITH: Thank you - - - <br />VAN PERNIS: - - -our job is to represent the people of Kona, all people stuck in a traffic jam every <br />day, once the virus is gone, all people who live in the area who are all jammed up on a serious, <br />serious basis, unacceptable, lights changing, traffic not moving - - - could tell you that—I can, too, <br />because I, takes me hours to get to Kealakekua off of Henry Street. And we are supposed to <br />represent all the people of Kona, or maybe courteous developers, but we are not here to try to find <br />some way of making it work for the developer, for a multi -millionaire developer, to make more <br />money. And I also want to say that— <br />CARR SMITH: Not appropriate, Mark. It doesn't matter -how; much money a person has or if they <br />are going to make a profit or they are going to take a loss—" <br />VAN PERNIS: Then— <br />CARR SMITH: - - - <br />VAN PERNIS: —strike those comments. <br />CARR SMITH: - - - it's not why we "arehere: <br />VAN PERNIS: We are hereto represent the people.:of Kona and'try,to protect them from things like <br />traffic jams, which exist"now. <br />CARR SMITH: Okay <br />VAN PERNIS:. Weare not hereto make"things work at the expense of people of Kona. There's <br />been today even an endorsement of a negative decision, and the Windward Planning Commission <br />has done -several times; which issupposedly popular with some people, of applications, and we <br />should not hesitate to do it. here. <br />CARR SMITH::=Anybody else? Did you have your hand up, Mike? No? Yes. Go ahead. <br />VITOUSEK: Yeah, "I just would say that, you know, in the event that this motion is carried on, the <br />applicant is more than welcome to'"come back with a revised proposal that includes the appropriate <br />zoning, the Neighborhood Commercial zoning, as was outlined, and the master plan and the Kona <br />Community Development Plan. That shouldn't take very long; that should take, you know, a few <br />months tops really to do all that legwork, and that would barely be eating into their 15 -year timeline <br />or ten-year timeline for construction. So I just want to say that, no, nothing against the project or <br />anything, I'd be happy to hear it again under different set of conditions. <br />CARR SMITH: Thank you. I agree, I support what you just said, echo that. All right. Are we <br />finished talking about this and ready to move toward a vote? I think so. All right, Christian, please? <br />43 <br />DRAFT <br />