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VITOUSEK: Yeah.
<br /> YATES: And driving to Hilo, and I, you know, Laupahoehoe, and driving over the Saddle Road,
<br /> that's so—kind of junk. It's really bad when you have to, you know, every day back and forth,
<br /> back and forth,because you don't have a choice. So, it's a concern.
<br /> VITOUSEK: I hear you, and I mean this is a tremendous amount of, of information that's being
<br /> thrown at the Commission, and you know we do our absolute best to digest all of it within the
<br /> week or so, or sometimes days leading up to this, and so, for us I don't think it is unreasonable of
<br /> a project of this magnitude for us to have suggestions and for you to give us the opportunity to
<br /> weigh those out,rather than having us just raise these issues and kick it off to the County
<br /> Council. So—
<br /> FUKE: Actually, Commissioner—Mr. Chair,but if I can just kind of add to that, you know you
<br /> mentioned about not having direct, specific timetable,but there are conditions associated with
<br /> the change of zone, also with the Land Use Commission's conditions that have, that are some
<br /> measure of time sensitive and they're going to have to address each and every one that comes in
<br /> accordance with the annual report. So, there is some amount of monitoring on that. While they
<br /> may not be specific construction type of deadline, they are other kind of commitments that has to
<br /> be addressed as a result of having these SMAs being tied into the zone change and the Land Use
<br /> Commission conditions. Like your staff had indicated, there are three kind of outstanding issues
<br /> that are not necessarily tied in to the SMA,but they're tied into the project district and a zone
<br /> change, and I think Maija mentioned the thing about the affordable--the workforce housing, you
<br /> know, specifically getting a timetable on that. The fire,police issue and the connectivity, all we
<br /> can say at this point in time, you know we will work together with the Planning Department and
<br /> hopefully arrive at a resolution on this issue. Specifically on the workforce housing, we cannot
<br /> make, at this point in time, or provide you with a specific timetable,but between now and the
<br /> County Council's review of that matter, you know, maybe thinking caps can be put on and, and
<br /> we'll see what may come out. But your concerns will be expressed by the Department to the
<br /> Commission--to the County Council and we certainly would want to address all of them and
<br /> make sure that we don't have any outstanding issues with the Council when the, when the
<br /> Council votes on it.
<br /> PLUNKETT: It may,may I--
<br /> VITOUSEK: Go ahead.
<br /> PLUNKETT: May I interject, and maybe it's a question. One thing that we are interested in
<br /> doing and in connection with your concerns, Commissioner Yates, is what's, what's in our
<br /> agreement with the, with the Office of County Housing and Community Development that's
<br /> where we would actually be committing to the specific time frames and what's a reasonable time
<br /> that we could come to an agreement with,with them, you know, to nail those things down to be
<br /> able to tell people exactly when things will happen. Maybe Stanford Carr's people could help me
<br /> with that question as well,but we don't have any desire to let any grass grow under that. We do
<br /> want to get to the point where we can get this agreement worked out with the, with the County
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