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HOUSEL: Okay. My suggestion to you is to document all those errors and submit those to the Planning Department to make the -. OLSON: Well, see it’s up to the Implementation Committee which is supposed to be appointed by the new Mayor to deal with that. WATANABE: Okay, let’s -. OLSON: Yeah, thank you. I’m over my three minutes. WATANABE: Yeah, we’ll be here for another 2 ½ years if we discuss the process, I guarantee you that; and we still won’t agree. Five years from now I guarantee you we still won’t agree. Okay? So if -. Rene’ Siracusa. SIRACUSA: Good afternoon everybody. My name is Rene’ Siracusa and I live on South Road in Kaohe Homesteads, Pahoa. My mailing address is PO Box 1520 in Pahoa, 96778. I was on the Planning Commission when we passed the Puna Community Development Plan. As a matter of fact, because I was the Puna Rep, I was the one who made the motion. We had had quite a bit of testimony about discrepancies in the maps. Certainly Bill Walters from Shipman raised the question about the maps of the Keaau area. The maps had not been labeled as to whether they were the current zoning situation or the recommended zoning situation. And so one of the conditions that were made in my motion to the passage of the Plan was that the Planning Department before passing the document on up to the County Council correct the maps. And Chris Yuen who was Director at the time said that he would do that. None of us got to see the maps before they went up. It was assumed that since he looked at them and said, oh, no, you’re right, this is wrong, that he would take the time to make sure that those maps were corrected. It appears now that that did not happen and that we had relied on him when he probably had too much on his plate and it fell through the cracks. At any rate there is official records, documentation of that meeting in which the Commission voted to pass the Community Development Plan with the notice that, first of all, that all of the reports from the various committees and the steering committee recommendations that went to the Planning Department would be included as part and parcel of the Plan, so that if there were ever any questions it would be considered that they were part of the Plan. And the second one was that the maps, the Planning Department would correct the maps. Now I would like to draw your attention to that zoning map up there because I’m looking at that page 5-9 in the Puna Community Development Plan; and it says that the areas straddling Pahoa Village Road from Apa‘a Street to the intersection of Kapohoa Road and Pahoa- Kalapana Road is intended to contain uses that are oriented primarily to residents of the Pahoa community itself. So let’s look at where that is in relationship to this parcel. Okay, this is Apa‘a Street right here. So Apa‘a Street to those, this goes all the way to the end of town where it meets the bypass on the other end. This parcel that we’re talking about is not within that area. As a matter of fact, there were other parcels in this block that are not noted here in the map. There is Sanford Cinder which is definitely a commercial operation. Sanford Cinder 08 EXHIBIT B