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GRAHAM:Chris, let me just give you a little, an overall pitch or read on this, and you tell me if it sounds right, like Im thinking of it right. Like this is an ordinance which the County Council would presumably pass but the County Council is also the body that passes the rezonings. So the County Council is kind of telling itself I cant pass rezonings in certain situations if I pass this law. But they could just as well just not pass it under certain situations anyway. YUEN:Right. And that goes to a question of whether you adopt something like this as an ordinance or whether you adopt something like this as a guideline that you use in evaluating rezonings. And in discussing this, in the background, for example, I try to point out that, recognizing that theres a highway problem in Kona, for several years the rezonings, the really larger rezonings have typically involved road conditions or have had affordable housing objectives. And this is a policy thats underlying some of the decisions and the recommendations that weve made without it actuallybeinganordinance.SotheCouncil,yes,theycouldadoptthesethingsasa policy. Theres some desire of the Council Members to adopt an ordinance that has the effect of limiting their freedom of action, the freedom of action of the Council in granting rezonings. GRAHAM:Thank you. DOMINGO:This would apply to all rezonings, or is it limited to size in number of acres, or -? YUEN:Well, the Councils Bill 318 would apply to all. The Directors revisions would kick in the TIAR, the study requirement only for larger projects, this 100 vehicles per day (sic) threshold which for a single family residential project it works out to about 150, to a project with 150 homes or lots, multi-family would be 225. So it would only kick in for what is to us a larger scale of project, not the kind that you see every day, every application. DOMINGO:But the Councils version of the bill would involve every application for rezoning? YUEN:Yes, thats what it says. DOMINGO:And thats my fear because were precluding those rezonings of a, you know, mom and pop who has a fairly good sized lot and they would like to subdivide it or rezone it and subdivide it for their children. If this precludes it, then its going to be hard. And what will happen is theyll go to the Council and complain to the Council, and then youll have the pressure to do something, where, in fact, it was of their own ordinance that precludes them from considering that rezoning application. I can see and appreciate the concern that the Council has in regards to, for the reason in coming up with such a major -, although there are some reservations on my part, and I see from yours. 5EXHIBIT D