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Public Works that they pass inspection. Were just; were just saying that defects in the way its presented on the map will not invalidate the map. GRAHAM:So that in 23-69 and 70 that are cited here wouldnt reflect on substantive issues on the ground that the public need be concerned about? YUEN:Right. GRAHAM:All right thank you. Any other Commissioner? Commissioner Springer? SPRINGER:Chris Im looking at the correspondence from Kimo Franco. Have you had a chance to review his correspondence and it indicates that hell be coming to our Hilo meeting but what are your thoughts on Ag lands and Hawaiian Rights and the Subdivision Code? YUEN:Well,were,onthisweare,wehaveaprojecttodoamoregeneral revision to the subdivision code. On this go around we are doing a rush fix so that we dont have to throw out hundreds of subdivision applications. Thats the gist of what were doing. So I dont want to do anything that changes. I would not; I dont want to address these suggestions on what were doing right now. SPRINGER:Thank you. GRAHAM:Commissioner Watanabe? WATANABE:I just wanted to comment that, compliment both you and the staff for responding to it real quickly. I read about that, I think was last month and its pretty quick the changes that youre making or proposing. So thanks. YUEN:Well its one of the major functions of the department and so we didnt want it to be held up. We had to make some changes because of the Supreme Court case. GRAHAM:We do have Mr. Emler here from the Department of Public Works and we probably wont see him in Hilo so Ki I just wanted to offer you the opportunity if you have any thoughts on this since youre probably way more knowledgeable about it than any of us we would be happy to hear them but if you dont thats okay too. EMLER:Im not sure that the Director has heard the final word from the Department of Public Works on the grades and curbs issue from us yet. This has come up kind of quickly and I think its been passed around and Im not sure the final comment or whether a comment has come out from our Director on this issue or not so thats the only thing I have to say about it. Although we talked about gates and Ive been an advocate trying to get gates set back from County roads for subdivision roads and for PUDs and when theres a variance that comes up I try to put a comment in on a variance to make sure these gates are set back from the public roads to allow for enough room for a person to enter their driveway and not interfere with the operations of a public road. And Id like to see something put in to any revisions. I know the EXHIBIT 4