2021-12-17 Redistricting Commission minutes (10th Session)

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BATH: Just one more thing that I noticed. If you go to the border between District 5 and District 3, Stainback Highway, there are three census blocks, actually there are four census blocks, three of them are zeros. I think that it would be appropriate to move those into District 5 because there's discussion about the Stainback Highway as being a redundancy route. So, I think that would make more sense than having it at North Road. Anyway, yeah move it from North Road to Stainback Highway. Just those three blocks. HUSTACE: Okay. I'll take a note of that. Thank you, Commissioner. BATH: Okay. I yield. KOSSOW: Any other discussion? AH NEE: Commissioner Ah Nee. KOSSOW: Ms. Ah Nee. AH NEE: I just want to agree with Commissioner Bath about the potential of Stainback Highway being in District 5,just looking at the urban contour and the suburban contour of that space. So, I do want to support that. I yield. KOSSOW: Mahalo, Ms. Ah Nee. Any other discussion? (No response.) Thank you, Mr. Hustace, for introducing this map and having us discuss it with it. We're going to move over to Mr. Lopez's map. I'll pass it over to Mr. Lopez. You just want to wait until Mr. Hustace posts it on top of the Zoom platform here. I'm sorry. What was the name of—the title of your map? LOPEZ: Draft Plan Fix Kalaoa and KVBID. KOSSOW: Thank you. HUSTACE: Okay, Mr. Lopez. I've shared your map. It's called, Draft Plan Fix Kalaoa and KVBID. So, this is the map that Mr. Lopez has shared with everyone. Did you submit this one, Mr. Lopez? LOPEZ: Yes, I did. On Thursday, waiting for all public testimony to be completed so as not to bias any conversation. The message was loud and clear. Well, I call it the vocal minority. Because of the tens of thousands of people that are involved in this, I would say, maybe a half dozen in District 8 really came out and voiced their concerns. So, I applaud them for that. The two issues were Kalaoa and the Kailua Village Business Improvement District(KVBID). So, what I did in addressing those concerns, was move Kalaoa from District 9 into District 8. Which is what they loudly wanted. That created a census block move of about just under sixteen hundred (1,600)people. So, that blew the numbers all to hell. Some of the testimony said, by doing these two changes, you would introduce some small changes around the island. Well, that clearly communicates to me, there's a lack of understanding of what we're trying to do. And I have to give them credit 11