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go over some of those changes- if you have any questions, I’ll be more than happy to go over <br />them with you. <br />GALDONES:Commissioners, any questions of Norman? Commissioner Springer. <br />SPRINGER:And this goes also to the Council? <br />HAYASHI:This will be- no, this would be adopted by the Planning Commission as its <br />rules. <br />SPRINGER:Thank you. <br />GALDONES:Seeing no further- Commissioner Graham. <br />GRAHAM:Could I just ask the Planning Director if he believes any of these changes <br />will be substituted in the way we handle our SMA permits. <br />GALDONES:Mr. Yuen. <br />YUEN:They would put existing practice into the rules. In- see where the statute <br />has changed, we’ve been following the statute, but people should be able to read the rules and <br />see what’s going on. The second thing is that the PASH and Ka Pa’akai cases with respect to <br />Native Hawaiian rights are an important requirement of an SMA permit now. But if you just- if <br />an applicant just picks up the rules they should be able to read the rules and see what they have <br />to do. There’s nothing in the rules that requires this kind of statement and description of <br />Hawaiian rights. So, it’s things that we’re currently doing but they aren’t in the rules. The two <br />major areas that we are- that have caused us to do this update are the changes in the Chapter 205 <br />(a), the State statute, and the Pash and Ka Pa’akai cases. Then, there’s a little mention of <br />something called a short form SMA (a)-. That’s really on the processing side for the Planning <br />Department and that- we have a form that you’re supposed to fill out, and typically it’s when <br />there’s an action within the SMA that’s not going to end up needing a permit. But we need to <br />review what you’re planning to do. And the form that we are working on with the current rules <br />are somewhat too elaborate for the kind of things that people are submitting; and so that’s a <br />small point there. I have a slight change. If we could just take a couple of minutes, I need to <br />write something as a slight change to one section here; and then I’ll discuss that with the <br />Commission. <br />GALDONES:The Director will be putting together something for the Commissioners to <br />consider so if- we should give him a few more minutes to put it together. We’ll be on short <br />recess. <br />RECESSEDThe Chair called a short recess at 11:45 a.m. <br />RECONVENEDThe meeting reconvened at 11:55 a.m. <br />2 <br /> <br />