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that time frame given, what happens out here in the middle of the Pacific with all the factors that
<br /> are involved, if they get the three to four years, they basically, based on this proposal, do not have
<br /> zoning. Their financial underwriters that are proposing to prepare more extensive plans,to
<br /> provide site work,they are saying, hey, you are going, got to go back to the well; you don't have,
<br /> there is no custom, there is no culture that you are going to be approved, you go back into the
<br /> firestorm again, we are not going to loan you the money you need to carry on because we don't
<br /> think, we don't know you are going to get it approved. Right now,there is a reasonable
<br /> expectation, if you follow and play it by certain rules, the Department, the Director will generally,
<br /> generally provide us a period to go further. So, I would like to caution you on deciding that if you
<br /> want to throw entirely into the Council and if it's a short time frame, you are actually going to be
<br /> counterproductive and add more problems for more paperwork to push it.
<br /> Also, if you extend it to 10 years, if the Council says, well, you can have 10 years instead of five,
<br /> you are not getting anything better than what you have today with five years that the Director can
<br /> decide versus getting the 10 years.
<br /> I would like to recommend in closing that you have, put in in your practice, in the bills, to
<br /> eliminate the problem of post-expirations granting being granted by the administration after the
<br /> five years, that the bills be amended to put in specific dates, but five years from the date of, from
<br /> the effective date of this rezoning ordinance is the limit for—or whatever number of years you
<br /> may choose—is the limit for administrative extension. It may be that the administrative
<br /> extensions ought to be shorter like—I'll pick just for sake of conversation not as a
<br /> recommendation—three years, and so that after that becomes six years,then Council decides, but
<br /> they have to perform reasonably within a shorter period of time of accountability, and maybe the
<br /> Director provides a report to Council of every extension granted with its reasons. And that might
<br /> actually be more productive in keeping a shorter string for that and still giving Council a review
<br /> potential in less than 10 years. Thank you.
<br /> VITOUSEK: Mahalo. And are there any Zoom testifiers?
<br /> HATA: Yes, we have Clare ready to give testimony on this item. Clare, you have three minutes,
<br /> so if you could unmute yourself and turn on your camera, that would be great. Clare, are you
<br /> there?
<br /> LOPRINZI: Yes, I'm here. Can you hear me?
<br /> HATA: Yes, we can hear you.
<br /> LOPRINZI: Okay. First of all, I want to apologize for that act--- I'm just,there's a lot of
<br /> emotion behind when I testify because I know the effect that it has on our babies, in the 51 years
<br /> I've been helping babies to be born, so, and the families.
<br /> So, I really want to support the bill that Holeka did. He is an amazing man, young man, and I
<br /> think he sees things on both sides. I think that this total transparency is what we are asking for,
<br /> because if permits have been extended, I mean, that have, have run out already, then they need,
<br /> and they were stopped, for example, because there's, there's not the roadways, there's not that, the
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