2021-10-28 Redistricting Commission minutes (6th Session)

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BATH: Commissioner Bath. Actually, I think that Brenda did include all of Pahoa town together here. It does look like it. I stand corrected. LOPEZ: But geographically, point to me where this geography is. I see nothing that says Pahoa town on the map. You can probably zoom out a little bit so that we could get a bigger picture. Right here where it says Pahoa Village? HUSTACE: So, right there where the road bends. Yeah. Right where it bends down. Sort of that nook in the road where it splits off to Kalapana and Kapoho. LOPEZ: Okay. I'm looking for that on this map here. Right in there? Where there's a population of 313? So, in that neighborhood. Okay. HUSTACE: Yeah, so it's split between the two there. LOPEZ: Okay. Where it says Pahoa. Alright, thank you. That's close enough. I can go dive into it. Thank you for that. I yield. KOSSOW: Mr. Hustace. HUSTACE: Thanks, Chair. Sorry about that. Some of these challenges, we've all faced with HPP, you know, well over 10,000 residents in there. I understand the connectivity issue but we're trying to reach this number of 22,232 and around that, given the deviation. It's hard with an area so densely populated too. It swings the district boundaries so easily. While I think Ms. Ford hadn't intended to put Kalapana to be a part of that district. And I understand what you're saying, Commissioner Bath. I think there are some challenges of adding another 1,200 other people. Because of the distance between HPP and Kalapana, it's just adding that many more people. It jumps the number that much higher. So, I think there's some challenges there. Some of the issue that I had here, was the boundary between 3 and 2,particularly the more mauka portions above Kurtistown and Mountain View, up on the slopes there. Because if you're talking about connectivity, Commissioner Bath, this is one of the issues that I had with one where, these tracts and blocks are further distanced from Hilo but they only connectivity is through Council 5 there. So, if you go down along the Volcano Road, the main highway, that's how they access their property up in there. Let's see, well Stainback actually connects that way. So, there are some connectivity. I see what Ms. Ford may have done there. Okay, thank you. YOSHINA: Chair Kossow? KOSSOW: Mr. Yoshina. YOSHINA: If you're going to consider this map seriously, I would like to have some time to look at the details for downtown Hilo which has been carved out of District 2. The second concern I have is that kind of an innocuous point here but, the command in control of Pohakuloa, I think, comes through military headquarters or that command 11