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IWASHITA:I wanted to, thank you. Sorry for being misunderstood. Can I make my
<br />comments from the podium?
<br />ALAMEDA:Sure, you may approach the podium.
<br />IWASHITA:Thank you.
<br />The reason I wanted to come up here was to use the map of the House Lots and how, I guess,
<br />view -. Thank you, Norman, what is this?
<br />HAYASHI:Its a pointer.
<br />IWASHITA:Oh, for the record. You know, we all agree that House Lots is an area in
<br />transition. I think that term applies to this whole island right now. But, specifically, and you all
<br />knowmyviewsabouthowthiswholeareaisbeingdealtwith.AndwhatI,andIdontespouse
<br />to have any kind of vision, you know, for really how this ought to turn out. But when comments
<br />are made or suggestions are made that Kekuanaoa Street is a busy street and we need to deal with
<br />it, and I think theres sort of an assumption that its just going to get wider and well put street
<br />lights and all that kind of thing in the future, and so commercial development should go around it
<br />-. I really think that those kinds of issues should be dealt with in the Community Development
<br />Plan. And that, you know, the consideration about, Council has talked about it, weve talked
<br />about it, how this community -. I mean, this is a large enough area where with the Medium
<br />Density zoning that, or General Plan designation, that, you know, the community can be
<br />developed in a way where people can walk, hopefully, to their schools and there would be
<br />commercial development that will allow the people to live in the area and work in the area, as
<br />one fortunate employee of Mr. Ikawa can do now, you know. And that really should be the
<br />perspective in terms of how this area is developed. Big Island Candies is a very successful
<br />company and its really great; and, you know, the expansion of it is something that I hope they
<br />can do and make more money and pay more taxes to our government.
<br />Our job as Commissioners on the Planning Commission, I think, is really the bigger picture; and
<br />that, you know, this map represents what we have today, in terms of how Kekuanaoa Street is
<br />going to be developed, how the businesses, assuming that thats whats going to happen along
<br />the street, are going to be there, whether people are going to be able to walk there, whether
<br />theres going to be on-street parking, sort of maybe a thought that doesnt enter in most peoples
<br />mind for a street like this. But, to, to me, thats not outside the realm of whats possible in this
<br />area. And we have in the future a vision or, you know, that Kekuanaoa becomes a pedestrian
<br />friendly kind of road with medians, on-street parking, businesses along both sides of it where
<br />people can walk from their apartments and townhouses, you know, to patronize those; and then
<br />they also have, you know, we have set public parking areas for people to come from outside, you
<br />know, to patronize those businesses. Then I really think that thats a different vision, not vision,
<br />I said I dont have one, I better not use that word, a different way in which this House Lots area
<br />can be developed and, you know, Big Island Candies, hopefully, go along with it, and grow as a
<br />business in doing so.
<br />What really concerns me about how were going about this right now is that basically the
<br />General Plan designation is improper for the zoning were considering; and were doing
<br />essentially the cart before the horse. You know, the zoning should be changed first, we ought to
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