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2. Open discussion regarding current uses on private property within the Banyan Drive Redevelopment Area. This agenda item is for information and discussion purposes only. The Agency took this item up at 2:29 p.m. with approximately 9 members of the public in attendance. GADDIS: For those that are here that are not usually here, we don’t have any actual authority to make any decisions, or changes, etcetera currently in the Banyan Drive Redevelopment Agency. Our mandate was originally to get an environmental impact statement done for the peninsula which would then allow us to go on to further planning, sort of a General Plan of sorts, which would give us a little bit more meat on the bone to be able to make potential changes. And so we’re sort of, we’ve been in a holding pattern for months and over a year now, which is why this potential funding to fund the EIS is so critical and that’s what’s moving through the legislative session right now. So, with that, does anyone have anything they want to add, or questions or point to be made? DELIMA: I do. GADDIS: Yeah, go ahead Brian. DELIMA: I appreciate the legislative update and I think it’s clear that without the funding nothing is gonna move and most of the land is state land so, you know, my understanding is that House Bill 1219 senate draft 1 has a better chance of becoming law than the Senate Bill and, and I think that in a way that would at least generate some impetus as to what would be the reality that most of those lands are state lands on the state leases, and something gotta be done sooner rather than later. And I think our Chair has kind of put into a good summary of the reality that the agency would only be empowered to do what is necessary once all the necessary EISs become adopted. The state would still have control because of their, their DLNR authority over state leases. So even if we got the EISs to be completed, our responsibility for effectuating specific zoning, or planning approval, or public work variances and so on may have gone to the agency under that scenario, except how it really interplayed with state land leases is unclear. Even if the House Bill 1219 is adopted, doesn’t, is there room for the board should that be repealed as well? I think that’s a question that needs to be asked by, asked of the County Council. Because you could still have some role in terms of the agency as it pertains to the private use of lands, the private lands that are in that particular area. So, you know, some authority could, so that from the open zoning if you’re going to approve commercial zoning it may require approval of the agency in order to make sure it’s consistent with the adjacent uses, uses of land, you know, that could be a possibility. If you’re going to have commercial on the, commercial, other commercial properties elsewhere or for example the Yamanaka property that they were speaking of. You know, that could be some type of, instead of going to the Planning Commission, the agency could take that responsibility, perhaps. I am more concerned about the, and I want to articulate it more in terms of understanding the economic impact that it is having on landowners, and its impact on terms of the business community and economic generation in our community. We don’t have a lot of capital Page 7 of 9 Banyan Drive Hawaiʽi Redevelopment Agency March 27, 2019 Minutes