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investment that is readily, that we could foresee in the near future. In fact Hawai‘i is capital poor. Most of our capital investment comes from outside the State of Hawai‘i. A lot of times it’s outside of our, the country of the United States. A lot of time we have a lot of investments from Canada that invest in Hawai‘i. So when we have local landowners of property that other businesses are utilizing, its, it behooves government to facilitate the economic viability of those businesses, rather to make, rather than making it more difficult because time is money. The more delay we have in terms of, and I’ve said this in all due respect to our Planning Commission, I’ve said it before he became the Planning Director, I said when the first, last Planning Director was on board is that we need to move more quickly with our General Plan amendments because by not moving more quickly on our General Plan amendments, we’re stifling our local landowners who are, who have had investment in that particular community for a long time. Because Banyan Drive area could have some economic generation for, or at least have an opportunity for these landowners to sell their parcels, or trade their parcels, or at least utilize their parcels in a way that make sense long-term for their tenants as well as for them. So I support any effort to try to facilitate and change the designation from open to something that makes sense. I leave it to the professional planners to determine what could be something that makes more sense for those particular uses. Or at least have a discussion with the state if we are not going to change it to open, to maybe consider transferring or exchanging parcels cause there are some state lands outside of this area that could be used for other designations other than open. So that’s my input in terms of where we’re at. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. GADDIS: Anyone else have any statements on this agenda item? Alright, if not, we’ll wrap that up. ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS The Agency took this item up at 2:36 p.m. 1. Approval of minutes from the February 27, 2019, Banyan Drive Hawaiʻi Redevelopment Agency meeting. GADDIS: We’ll move onto our Administrative Matters, which basically are just the approval of minutes from the last meeting, February 27, 2019. I don’t know if everyone’s had a chance to review them, but if someone wants to make a motion to approve. DELIMA: Move to approve as circulated. GADDIS: Alright, we need a second. CANNON-EGER: Second. GADDIS: We’ll take a vote to approve minutes from February 27, 2019. All in favor say aye. ALL: Aye. GADDIS: Alright, motion is passed. Page 8 of 9 Banyan Drive Hawaiʽi Redevelopment Agency March 27, 2019 Minutes