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because they don't know all the details that we know. All the parameters that we operate
<br /> under. So, they can just speak viscerally and request things, but these are not small
<br /> changes as it impacts our maps. So, looking at my map there, you can see I put Kalaoa all
<br /> in District 8. Then I got a copy of the Kailua Village Business Improvement District,
<br /> which begins just behind Kona Commons, or right where the border of Queen
<br /> Lili`uokalani Park is, and goes up to the courthouse, and clear down to the resort area of
<br /> where Walua Road branches out. Many of you don't know what I'm talking about, and
<br /> that's the same thing I feel, obviously when we're talking about things on the east side,
<br /> I'm not familiar. And I'm not presumptuous enough to be able to tell you how your
<br /> district lines should be. I compliment Mr. Hustace, because he has a much greater
<br /> knowledge of these neighborhoods across the island than I do, but I can't go there. So, I
<br /> can only offer District 8 and hope that individually, you as Commissioners, are
<br /> addressing the needs of your communities. So, looking at this map, you see the upper
<br /> area. The Kailua Village Business Improvement District is a line not associated with
<br /> census blocks. It is a line of business, where the business district is bordered. But, when
<br /> you go and move the Business District into District 7, which is what was requested, you
<br /> move census blocks, as you know. So, that's why these areas are much bigger than really
<br /> the Business District is. And it proceeds down what I try to do, and I've tried to do all
<br /> along, is protect the urban core, the traditional core, of Kailua in District 8. Which is
<br /> where the seat of the west side is. I didn't want District 8 to become a bedroom
<br /> community, as I saw on the map we just looked at. And it really goes back to the same
<br /> map, same appearance, that Chair Kossow introduced which I had objected to, taking the
<br /> heart of Kailua-Kona out and making us a bedroom community. So, I see we've gone
<br /> back to that in the last map, and I'm trying to maintain that aspect. It goes to many of the
<br /> conversations and many of the testimony about keeping people together in common
<br /> interests and common needs and common accessibility and so on. So, I offer this map as
<br /> a consideration to address the two points that came out. One, keep Kalaoa together
<br /> because the southern border of that Kalaoa area is where the dividing line was in our draft
<br /> plan, between District 9 and District 8. And it put them in District 9. Well
<br /> understandably, the population of that census block is primarily in the south. So, to put
<br /> which end and their proximity to Kailua town, is much stronger than their relationship to
<br /> Waimea. So, it made perfect sense. Although, it killed our deviations, it makes perfect
<br /> sense to put them in District 8. Likewise, the Business Improvement District is presently
<br /> under the leadership of District 7. And so, it didn't make sense to break that up into
<br /> District 8 and District 7. So, I agree with that change also. And that's the purpose of my
<br /> focus in this area of the island to address those concerns. And I ask you to consider this
<br /> as you progress through the final map. Now what it does do, this one, it increased the
<br /> deviation in District 8 from a minus 0.89 to a plus 3.79. Which, you know, we're still
<br /> acceptable range. For D7, it went from a minus 4.99 I believe, to a plus 6.53. So, I have
<br /> to leave it to District 7 to understand what changes they may want to make. And District
<br /> 9 got nuked. It went from a deviation of, I don't remember what it was, acceptable. And
<br /> now it's at minus fourteen (14)percent. But in looking at this, I thought, well, maybe this
<br /> gives room for District 9 to recover those parts of Waimea that the public really wants to
<br /> see kept in 9. And the domino effect, of course, we all deal with, it's going to extend
<br /> around the island. But it may also give District 6 the ability to bring Volcano back over to
<br /> the Puna side and alleviate. From what I understand, the problem was District 6 is
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