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something that our current Department of Public Works Director is on board with, too, and so
<br /> really saying, hey, Planning, why don't you help, you know, you guys plan where this goes and
<br /> we'll start doing it, so we are doing it. It's a very different dialogue. So that's what we are
<br /> working towards. It's not happening fast enough, but that will ultimately get it so we can have a
<br /> bit more of a framework on what that would look like. And that's what we are trying to uplift
<br /> into the General Plan and make the General Plan more of a county-wide document, it is, but
<br /> more adopted by the other departments. That's why we have to go back out, get more buy-in
<br /> from them, bring them into it and say this is the guiding document and the CDPs are part of that,
<br /> and we are moving forward with those. And at some point, Chair, if you guys want, we can, you
<br /> know, request DPW folks to come in and talk about some of their roadway priorities, etcetera,
<br /> etcetera.
<br /> VITOUSEK: Is that something that you would like to see? Yep, okay, I think that would be a
<br /> good thing. Commissioner DeFranco.
<br /> DEFRANCO: Yeah, you know, also, you know,we have Kealakekua Bay, Ho`okena, Two
<br /> Steps. You know, we in South Kona have areas that, you know, we want to know what is
<br /> planned for those. I mean I thought there was a, some, some things going on, but, you know, in
<br /> this presentation we didn't even touch it. So in my community that sort of, you know, for me to
<br /> go back and be able to tell people, you know, what's happening, or even for me to know what is
<br /> planned, would be good, would be good to know.
<br /> VITOUSEK: Is there a reason why, you know, North and South Kohala is split in two separate
<br /> community development plans, but Kona is lumped into one?
<br /> KERN: April?
<br /> SURPRENANT: The history of the beast. There are some of us who would like to see those
<br /> two combined and others who prefer that they not be combined, but it's simply the way it was
<br /> done in the beginning when Council initiated the first community development plans, and so
<br /> they were done separately in the Kohalas and done together in Kona. We all kind of wish there
<br /> were a little more consistency in that regard. So I do understand the question, but I don't have
<br /> much of a better answer than that. We all, all of our regions I think this is one thing to say that,
<br /> you know, North Kona is what it is, South Kona is what it is, and even within North Kona there
<br /> are very distinct and different regions and environments and different types of urban and rural
<br /> areas, and I think we can say the same for all of our different regions that they are very distinct.
<br /> But there are enough similarities that I think some of them could be combined, but that's yet to
<br /> be seen in the future, so.
<br /> VITOUSEK: Basically, Jumpers versus splitters.
<br /> KERN: So real quick on the DPW side of it—so, Christian, when Maija comes back, let's circle
<br /> up with her and talk story about that. We'll try to fit it, we'll give them some advance notice,
<br /> and then we'll work on fitting it into a time period where the agenda isn't too heavy. I don't
<br /> think we want to have that presentation on a day that we have a ton of applications coming in.
<br /> So we'll work on that one.
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