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WATANABE: Yeah, I’ll defer to Mr. Galdones. GRAHAM: Okay. GALDONES: Thank you, Mr. Watanabe. Thank you, Mr. Chair. In the Ginger Patch DP, LLC change of zone application (REZ 06-000052), I move that a favorable recommendation of the Change of Zone request be forwarded to the County Council, along with the background report and the recommendations as submitted. WATANABE: Second. GRAHAM: All right. We have a motion for a favorable recommendation and a second. Do we have any comments or discussion by the Commissioners? ALAMEDA: Mr. Chair? GRAHAM: Commissioner Alameda. ALAMEDA: Thank you, Mr. Chair. You know, I know that the Miyashiro’s and the Shiroma’s are in support of this project and trust Mr. Gomes in his development. But how I look at this project is this doesn’t only affect the Miyashiro’s and the Shiroma’s. This affects all of Hilo, people who live above the project, to the side, to the other side. And that whole traffic situation right here is already an issue without this project. And I’m just concerned, I mean my primary concern is the whole traffic issue. So I just wanted to put it on the table. I’m not sure yet where I’m leaning, but I have reservations on this project. GRAHAM: Thank you. Commissioner Galdones? Commissioner Iwashita? IWASHITA: I share Commissioner Alameda’s concerns; and as a deliberative body I think we should be deliberative about this and have the necessary information so that, you know, a TIAR should be provided. And it should be done and provided to the Commissioners so that we can have the information and decide whether or not in the big picture, you know, that these traffic concerns would not be an overriding factor in terms of whether it should go forward or not. So I’ll be voting against the motion. GRAHAM: Thank you. Commissioner Galdones. GALDONES: Thank you, Mr. Chair. The reason I’m supporting the conditions of approval as submitted, especially in Conditions E, F and G, is because I’m no expert in traffic studies and there is an agency that deals with that, and that is the Department of Transportation, Highways Division. And the conditions of approval state that a TIAR has to be submitted to the Department of Transportation for review. Now I’m not certain if there is a process in which the public can give some kind of input to the Department of Transportation through the process when they make a final approval of what the traffic should look like after the study is made. But I would have to leave it up to that agency who has the expertise in dealing with these situations. EXHIBIT B 20