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GALDONES:Thank you, Ms. Bail. Commissioners, are there any questions or comments? Commissioner Springer? SPRINGER:My questions are not for the Applicants representative but rather for the Director to respond in greater length to her objections that we see in the memo before us. YUEN:Let me start with the things that we agree on and then get to the much longer list of things that we disagree. I think they make a good case in their letter for a 10-year time extension; and I would agree with that, but with no administrative time extensions, consistent with what we did earlier. So they asked, they applied for a 10-year time extension. I dont, given what theyve written, I dont have a problem with saying that they would have a 10-year time extension, with any further extensions going back there to the County Council. On the CPR, this is a standard condition that we put on, given the abuses of condominiumsbeingusedasasubstituteforsubdivision.Icanunderstandthat,inthis case, its not meant to prevent the project from being developed as a condominium, that sometimes projects have been developed as a condominium. We now have controls in place that would subject that to the same requirements as a subdivision. So we could change the language in Condition -. DARROW:That would be the new Condition G. YUEN:Where it says, prohibit the construction of a second dwelling unit and condominium property regimes on each, it would say, the construction of a second dwelling unit, and condominium property regimes on each one acre lot. In other words, condominiumize the one-acre lots but the project as a whole could be done as a condominium, or the golf course, or the golf clubhouse, or any portion of it. Other than that, going on, the point of the reclassification, I also dont object to their, that saying that you could go to Rural or to Urban if they so choose. There are different, there will be different issues at the Land Use Commission but the conditions of this ordinance should limit it to one or the other. So I dont have a problem with saying that they should reclassify to Rural or to Urban. Now to the points of disagreement. We look at these time extensions as a way to review projects in the light of changed circumstances in the community. Housing, so lets turn to the housing condition. Even if there had not been an affordable housing condition on the prior ordinance, we would have recommended that it be added to this time extension as we have done with a number of projects recently, including time extensions for condominium projects or apartment projects in Kona that were originally zoned before there were any housing, affordable housing conditions at all. So we would be bringing, we would as a matter of the policy of this department, we think that when people have these old zonings, they havent used it, they should, and they come in for, 11