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KAUKA: So, Mr. Hustace, we are working to have this link available. We sent it to a few
<br /> people who have inquired about it and we are working to have this link on the website
<br /> later today.
<br /> HUSTACE: Mahalo.
<br /> KOSSOW: Is there any other questions regarding Ms. Ford's plans? Or comments? Ms.
<br /> Lui?
<br /> LUL Yeah, I just have one which is about District 1. Actually, she follows the boundary
<br /> that you drew, Chair Kossow, along Waianuenue rather than the Wainaku River. In
<br /> thinking about this more, I think that does make sense. Even though those are areas that
<br /> probably relate more to Hilo, I'm not sure that there's any other option unless we grab
<br /> some of the subdivisions along the Saddle Road but that doesn't really make any more or
<br /> less sense than the other alternatives. So yeah, I'd be very open to that.
<br /> KOSSOW: Thank you, Ms. Lui. One of the things that I wanted to ask Mr. Hustace is, I
<br /> noticed that between District 1 and District 9 kind of splits, there's a Pu`u Kapu. Yeah,
<br /> one side of it is Pu`u Kapu. That is located, if somebody wants to scroll in towards
<br /> Waimea town. (Pause.) Right in the boundary line, right in this area here, the Pu`u Kapu
<br /> right there, and then right across the street is another part of Pu`u Kapu. So it kind of
<br /> divides the two. Do you have any comments on that?
<br /> HUSTACE: Thanks, Chair, for that question. If you don't mind I'm going to jump to Ms.
<br /> Lui's, to kind of build off of what Commissioner Lui said as well. This has been a
<br /> challenge, similar with District 6 and District 1, is this large expansive land and there's
<br /> fewer people to match this number of 22,232. So, in drawing my maps for District 1, I
<br /> either took more of Hilo or I took more of Waimea or a combination of the two, right?
<br /> There are people that was in Waimea that want all of Waimea in one district and
<br /> unfortunately, that would leave District 1 really shorthanded, and they'd have to take a lot
<br /> more of Hilo. So, I don't know if it's a balance between the two, taking a little more of
<br /> Waimea, a little more of Hilo, or a lot of one or the other. So, to answer your question,
<br /> Chair, some of the maps that I drew did consider Ms. Ford's as well where, she actually
<br /> used a geographic boundary to divide it here. So, she used a stream boundary here, right
<br /> on the outskirts of Kuhi6 Hale in Waimea. Right at the Mana Road junction. Now,
<br /> unfortunately all these people that live in this Mokuloa Subdivision, both Pu`u Nani
<br /> Subdivisions, that would be a big change for them. It's going to take them to come to
<br /> these meetings and really talk about that, what district they really want to be in. Because
<br /> I'm hearing that they want to be in the Waimea District but what is Waimea District?
<br /> Maybe because Waimea's growing as well, that it needs to have a split representation.
<br /> So, that's kind of up for conversation too. But yes,the Pu`u Kapu kind of, the large
<br /> original Pu`u Kapu Subdivision of Waimea, the eastern portion of Waimea, is being split
<br /> between the Belt Road. Similar to Ms. Ford, I used some of these larger streets as
<br /> boundaries on the Mauna Kea side. So, Mealani Road was an option. White Road's
<br /> another option. There are a lot of people that live in these kinds of areas that are kind of
<br /> cut there on the other side of Waipio, up on the north side of the Belt Road. That helped
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