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OLSON: In all due respect, Taka, I tend to disagree with you. I mean the fact of the <br />matter is that on our side we went through a 2 ½ year process and the maps were continually <br />being revised. The County had a limited amount of resources to spend on fixing a 55-year old <br />fraud, because that’s the birth of the current situation that you have in Puna. The Puna that you <br />see today, land use wise, was born of an international fraud. You’ve read Land And Power In <br />Hawaii, I’ve read Land and Power in Hawaii. We know why it is the mess that it is. And no one <br />in the last 55 years has stepped up to make any attempt to fix that. And it took us out here 2 ½ <br />years to get to where we got. You want to tell me that we’ve got a map that’s wrong, we’ll fix it. <br />The verbiage is correct, the intent is clear, that this is where it’s got to go. I circulated this <br />document to all of you. This shows you how much commercial space we are short, versing <br />population, based on population. Right? We’ve been held down out there for decades. We <br />never get anything passed. This is the first thing in 55 years that comes anywhere close. Yeah, <br />there are some things wrong with it. You want perfection, hire God. This is as close as we <br />could get. <br />HOUSEL: Mr. Chair? <br />WATANABE: Yes. <br />HOUSEL: I have a question. Do I understand clearly when during the CDP process <br />and when the CDP Plan was released, are you saying that this map error was a typographical <br />error, that it was not intended that way? <br />OLSON: Yes. <br />HOUSEL: Okay. Can that be amended? <br />OLSON: Certainly. <br />HOUSEL: Okay. <br />OLSON: And we should have already moved into the amendment process; but the <br />new Mayor has not appointed the people necessary to do that. I was very hopeful that we would <br />in a rather seamless way, and just naivete on my part, move from this to implementation where <br />we would have ironed all of this out before this got to your desk. <br />HOUSEL: Right. Are there other errors that need to be corrected also? <br />OLSON: Oh, I have my own little list. You know, it’s this. There’s emergency <br />response corridors that were dropped even though, you know, we mentioned it. The one thing <br />that I did do is I have saved all of the minutes and I’ve categorized all of the minutes; and I will <br />promise you that when we go back to it we’ll get them all. <br />07 <br />EXHIBIT B <br /> <br />