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happened was she travelled all the way to Honokaa to preserve that. And I think we if go to Taniguchi, there’s that Mt. Apple brand. I think those are products which many people in their own way have preserved and canned and made goods for sale at the market. You know, those are the kind of spirit of entrepreneurship that we’d like to generate in our society where people are not totally dependent on those big markets who make, and to use that and provide for us. That’s why I said this is a good thing. But, you know, let me tell you one thing. I read once that if Noah had to go through the process that we have to go through to obtain permits today to build a house, he would never have been able to do that. Can you imagine him going in for an environmental impact statement and having a qualified engineer to make all the drawings for that ark, provide for sanitation and sewer disposal, all of those things? You know, but today government is in our way; and we’re a part of it. And it all has come down to us because of instances that people have gone through in the past and to address them. And we have the same problem with this. The Community Development Plan has been designed so that there would no wide-scale development and scattered uses throughout the Puna area. One of the most glaring opposition here by the Planning Director in her recommendation, it’s not in keeping with the Puna Development Plan. So what I was alluding to previously is the Puna Development Plan does not address in any instance the fact that, you know, within our own agricultural-designated lands you can go in and apply for a use permit and conduct, conduct a business or processes, which is of a small nature and which would not fall within a description of regional commercial center. And when we consider Puna as large as it is, now we’re finding out that these kinds of uses that you propose are uses that would fit well into a large, into large areas, that would prevent people from travelling long distances to go to buy a loaf of bread or to go, and just go down and get together with your friends and have coffee and cookies or whatever, biscuits, at the place where you can come together and discuss and solve the world’s problem, you know. And I think those are the things that help mold our society into an informed society and a better place to live. Now that being done, unless there is some way that we can address this issue with the Community Development Plan and the people, then I will wait until such a time when they make a decision. Of course, you know where I’m coming from. T. ROBESON: Well, you know, you mentioned addressing the Community Development Plan, and the Community Development Plan stresses agriculture, and for that zone, for that piece of land. DOMINGO: Well, more than anything else, it stresses the commercial centers. And that commercial center as described in here is not projected to be in this area. T. ROBESON: Right. DOMINGO: And you’re out of that, out of that area in which the commercial uses are permitted. T. ROBESON: Yeah, but, you know, as you said a little bit earlier, you know, it’s a small, you know, we’re not regional. We are a small -. DOMINGO: I know, I know. That’s why I think we’re caught between the interpretation and the application of a regional center, and the uses that I speak of in which, you know, these kinds of operations can be conducted. And it would be for those who draw up the regulations and policies in the Planning Department and the County Council to decide. MELROSE: Can I just add, I’m pleased that this -. 15 EXHIBIT A