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subdivisions and giving it to Ka`u to bring our numbers down and they're not going to be <br /> happy with that. Really, I have a question. What determines the number of districts on <br /> our island? And do we have to be at around 22,000 in the districts? Is there any way that <br /> we can create another district? Cause we were hoping for that, but it didn't happen. <br /> Legally we cannot, yeah? I'm sensing that a lot of us are in the same dilemma. But I <br /> wanted to hear from District 4 and see what's the scoop with, what's going on with you? <br /> And what you're work is? Because it really impacts District 3, District 5, District 6. I <br /> yield. <br /> YADAO: I'm having the same problem moving stuff around too because when I do move <br /> it, a lot of the areas, the numbers are big, so <br /> KOSSOW: Ms. Yadao, could you put your microphone closer? Thank you. <br /> YADAO: I'm having a hard time moving the boundaries around as well. `Cause when I <br /> do move it, it creates a big increase. <br /> BATH: HPP seems to be the big issue from what I've seen. Because the population <br /> density in Hawaiian Paradise Park is so dense and they're a community, other than that <br /> little bit that's to the other side of 130. And so, we're not supposed to split communities <br /> but that would be the solution, but we cannot do that, yeah? I yield. <br /> KOSSOW: Is there any other technical support questions? Mr. Hustace. <br /> HUSTACE: Thank you, Chair. One of the things I've been trying, and it might be worth <br /> for all of us to tinker with this too, I kind of touched on this before about development <br /> and more of the urban cores and the urban density in some of those areas, is to really <br /> carve out—and I was looking at this in Hilo in particular, is carve out a district that is <br /> very the urban core of Hilo. And so, the districts come around and sweep around that <br /> district and take up those. Unfortunately, you still might be taking people from the Hilo <br /> community that may call themselves part of the Hilo community, but to pick up some of <br /> those smaller numbers, they need to grow incrementally and may have to sweep in from <br /> the more mauka portions of Hilo. So, I've tried a couple of different things and every <br /> time I shift them around, I have the districts kind of circulating around each other and <br /> they keep moving and moving. But to move some of them, like Commissioner Bath, you <br /> were talking about District 4 and kind of taking the Kapoho area, Kalapana, but maybe <br /> they have to relinquish HPP then, and that becomes part of Council 3. They may have to <br /> think in these drastic terms. I'm not sure if this is the right approach and I've sunk a lot of <br /> hours into it just thinking about more larger scale changes. And there may be some <br /> divisive comments and concerns about that but I'm just trying to take some more of the <br /> rural areas that are less populated to districts that only need a couple more percentage <br /> points to gain. So,just really looking at some of these urban core areas and seeing if they <br /> could be districts within themselves and not sweep all the way up. So, if you look at <br /> Council 2, it really sweeps up to the summits of Mauna Kea. Maybe there are political <br /> reasons for that, but there's no one living there. Maybe it doesn't need to be a part of that <br /> district. Because I also think about these districts, that they need to be more uniform in <br /> 28 <br />