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gone through. Sometimes it's annoying, I would say, when we get applicants come through for another five years, but they are coming through the process, and it's at that time that the Commission and the Council can recommend changes or removal of conditions; we have a process. If the Director grants the extension, there's no way, we don't amend conditions in the rezone ordinance; it happens offline between the Department and the applicant, and where is the transparency in that? And this, again, is no attack on the current Planning Department because this has just been practice for four decades. VIOTUSEK: Vice Chair DeFranco? DEFRANCO: I'm just wondering. It isn't like—when they ask for an extension, doesn't the Planning Director have a criteria that has to be met before he grants the extension? Isn't there a process that's already in place? VITOUSEK: Perhaps— DEFRANCO: And ask those questions? VITOUSEK: Perhaps Deputy Director Darrow could answer the question— DEFRANCO: Maybe, maybe you can speak to that. VITOUSEK: —on the Department's procedures. DARROW: Sure. As mentioned, this practice has been in place for a number of decades. The authority granted to the Planning Director is given from the Council to make this administrative time extension decision. The decision for the Director has to meet certain criteria, which is listed in the condition. I, the Director does not have the ability to amend any conditions on his own; the only thing he is allowed to do is the authority given to him through the Council in the ordinance, which is to look at if the applicant has met these criteria and to grant him a time extension no more than the original time granted. So,that means there is flexibility. In the past I've seen cases where certain Planning Directors only grant one year, and they say I will grant you one year, I want to see if you do any changes to your project, then they will come back in if they did, and he will grant the additional time. There have been times where somebody comes in and their project is completely changing, and we'll say we are not going to grant an administrative time extension, you need to go back to Commission and Council because your project has completely changed. And so,the way that we look at this isn't so much the, that we have this power that we can grant this additional time; it's, we look at it as a check-and-balance that this is, you know, yes,the time frame originally granted was five years, but there was a condition granted looking at this project at a 10-year time frame or the possibility of 10 years if they met these criteria. So, we take that very seriously. There's a number of—in fact, we were just looking at an application, or a time extension letter and an administrative time extension letter that was granted to an applicant, and we looked at it, we addressed each criteria, and we had said please be aware of this condition that since this time has passed, your fair share is going to increase through the HCPI the Honolulu Price Consumer [sic] Index. So, we take, again, we take that seriously. 11 EXHIBIT G(DRAFT)