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KOSSOW: Thank you, Mr. Kauka. Mr. Hustace had introduced this new business 1. I did
<br /> request a privilege to add this onto the Zoom call. Mr. Kauka, are you already on there?
<br /> Okay. Then Mr. Hustace, I'll pass it over to you. Thank you.
<br /> HUSTACE: Thank you, Chair. And thank you for letting me have this on the agenda. We
<br /> discussed this previously. And I know myself, and fellow commissioners, noticed and
<br /> came across numerous census blocks that were of concern for a number of different
<br /> reasons. And Chair, with your approval, I will share my screen to just kind of showcase
<br /> some of the issues that I saw, and talk about those, if that's okay.
<br /> KOSSOW: Yeah. Privilege accepted.
<br /> HUSTACE: Thank you. Alright, I can do my best to zoom into particular areas. I've
<br /> decided to use the software that we've all been using,just for familiarity's sake. Initially
<br /> going through the process of creating maps for the purpose of the draft plan, and working
<br /> towards a draft plan, I just wrote it down on a spreadsheet. But I thought it would be
<br /> better to have a visual aid to kind of look at some of these. Chair, I don't know if you
<br /> want us to strike a motion for sending a message in, or a letter of these block issues first
<br /> and foremost before we have the discussion.
<br /> KOSSOW: I think we already createdI think we already voted on making this a
<br /> priority. So, maybe what we'll do is, once we compile all of the information together,
<br /> then we can create a motion for that, what the information we have.
<br /> HUSTACE: Fair enough. Thanks, Chair. So, going to this map here, I basically used the
<br /> blank template that we had. One of the capabilities that we had. It's either we had it with
<br /> the current districts, or a completely blank canvas. Then I went in and on one of the pages
<br /> here, under the view tab, there's a possibility of adding more districts. So, basically these
<br /> are each of their own district for the purpose of showcasing them individually. I basically
<br /> have those as, so each district here, is their own. So, currently, I think this list is fifty (50)
<br /> census blocks that I have concern about. They're basically, for the sake of clarity, they
<br /> are their own district but. So, I can zoom into a couple of these and we can discuss some
<br /> of them, for example. So, I'll just start one here for example, since this came in as a piece
<br /> of testimony and recent discussion as well, is Wao Kele O Puna Forest Reserve. The
<br /> issue that I see with this census block is, beyond its size, if we put this in one district or
<br /> another, there are census blocks within it, and there's no breaking line. So, if I put that,
<br /> all of these census blocks would have to go with it, basically. And for example, I know
<br /> it's locked right now, but there are roads and other homes and residents that live in this
<br /> area around this one census block here. So, it makes me wonder if there should be other
<br /> census blocks neighboring this one in particular. So, that was one case. Some of these are
<br /> long coastal blocks that I have also captured too. This one runs along miles of the
<br /> coastline and would prevent any sort of difficulty in creating boundary lines because of
<br /> this long running—I mean, a lot of these don't have people living in them, but there isn't
<br /> really a clear breaking point in some of these lines. So, you have these weird jags and
<br /> runs in the district lines without breaking them. Another one that I came across is, I
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