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INABA: Good morning. KERN: So,just to kind of talk about this. I'm actually happy that this conversations come up because I think it'll eliminate some of the misperceptions that are out there and hopefully drill down into a practice that works for everybody in a transparent way. I know that the language still gives the Council flexibility which I do think is important in the County Council perspective. With this going forward, with I know what your intention is so, if it's a 5 year, say with a 5-year administrative time extension and we think it's going to be ten (10) years. We say this is a 10 year you know, and then it expires at that time there is no administrative time extension for that. So, we just work on trying to get the best time frames in general for that condition. Which is then as you say it's known if it was 5 years, or 10 years or if it was twenty (20) years that is what it is. Right! And so, I don't have, we don't have a problem with that, and we are happy to work with you on that. I do think though the language still gives the Council some flexibility on that which is the Council's ability. Right,which I think is a good thing. I do want to state though for the record. That from the Planning Department we do, as a director, we do not issue time extensions beyond what was allowed within the ordinance which was approved by Council. There is a misperception out there that time extensions are handed out over and over and over again and there's no diligence in what's being done. So, what we see are time extensions once that administrative time extension is done then they have to go through the entire process again. They'll submit an application for a time extension to the Department. We look at it holistically in all ways. So, if they needed a new TIAR, we have them do a new TZAR. If there is an environmental impact that's changed, we look at that impact that's changed. Sometimes conditions are changed based on the new findings that are there. So, I just really want it for the record that we do comprehensively look at that coming through and I feel that's important for everybody to know because we all just trying to work here and be diligent on maintaining and creating a home that we love. So, I'm happy that the conversation has come up, happy to work with you on that again,we still support that, and I do support the intention of hey, let's name it for what it is and if its 10 years, it's 10. As you were saying, if its 10 years its 10 years, right. So,overall, I'm supportive of this and we are happy to work with you guys. INABA: Thank you. Chair if I may. LIN: Sure, go ahead. INABA: I just want to add in this is not a bill, this is a bill that is in response to a lot of community outreach, especially in West Hawaii. But it's that language being inserted into the rezoning bills as the Director states in his recommendation has been a long-standing practice, longer than I've been alive. You too Dennis. [giggling] And for us and for the people that I represent it's about ensuring that what is stated on the record is going to be on the record and for one Planning Department to perhaps say well we won't include the language anymore one administration and then four (4) years from now we might a new administration who chooses to insert that language again. That's the reason for putting it in the Code, so that its specifically b EXHIBIT B (DRAFT)