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HEIT: No. Actually it'd be difficult because the previous lease was like that. It was, actually was a separate lease for the golf course and I think there was like two or three other leases for the Naniloa complex. When they canceled that one and reissued a single lease included all those properties. But there is a, there is a provision in the lease that any, a government agency can come and claim the property. So they can withdraw portions of it with compensation. So it can be worked out, but it would require a lot of negotiation. Anything's possible. TANIGUCHI: I can foresee the golf course area all being redeveloped with new, new roadways, you know,just improving the whole thing. Giving more space inland so that the high water rise will—it's gonna affect the ocean side of the hotels but you gotta give them area to maybe make up some space. HEIT: Right, and if you looked at some of the previous plans that were submitted to this agency, I included that realignment of the Banyan Drive. So it was considered. And that's why again, we want to work with you folks on some type of master plan agreement before we can move forward with this. TANIGUCHI: But the State not going put in the money. HEIT: Yeah. ONISHL So I guess I wanna make two comments. One in regards to Uncle Billy's, there was, DLNR did provide the opportunity for people to look at that property and meet the minimum requirements of that RFI in order to develop that property. Like I said earlier, there was only one proposal and they didn't meet the requirements. So if that particular proposer felt like he could make money off of the minimum requirements then he should have done it, but he did not. So, you know, that's a moot issue to me at this point. The other thing is HB 1219 specifically establishes this committee in order with the expertise that's necessary to look at a plan that's developable. So right now, I, you know, and one of the problems that I have with the County's plan is I don't think anybody in terms of development has taken a look at this to look at, okay, what part, what parts would I be able to do, or am I able to do the whole thing given the fact that DLNR is able to establish a general lease with the exclusion of what's leased already, or something like that. Right? Or, working with these other lessees in order to come up with a master lease. But this particular bill allows for this committee to look at the leases, make adjustments to it, as with compensation as is provided by law. So what you are asking, Barry, is what this bill allows for. And initially we had, we had in the first bill established a two-year period for the committee once it's organized to come up with a master plan. That master plan then has to be vetted, well the process would be having it vetted in the community and then eventually presented to the board, the Land Board for approval at which time upon approval the committee could move forward with the development. So the people that were supposed to sit on the committee were specific. Hotel resort developers, land managers, you know, those people with expertise in the area of resort commercial development so that they would be able to look at, okay what makes sense. Page 15 of 19 Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment Agency August 28,2019 Minutes