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property, we have zoning on the island where say the zoning was granted in the eighties, theres no time conditions, theres no fair share, theres no affordable housing. They do have the ability to go forward under that basis. But when projects come in that have missed, that do have these time extension requests that are needed, we think that they should be treated the same as if they were coming in for zoning today. Otherwise, and this applies both to fair share and affordable housing. There was an affordable housing requirement on this project already, so were just updating it to the current affordable housing, but we feel this way for fair share and affordable housing. So weve been taking this position consistently for some time now. And I believe the Council has been passing the time extensions with these additional fair share and affordable housing requirements when they werent on them. IWASHITA:Madam Chair -. SPRINGER:Just, if I may have some follow up before you proceed, Commissioner Iwashita.DirectorYuen,hasthisbeenanumberofmonthsoryearsnowthattheseconditions have been applied? YUEN:I think it has been at least a year. Im not sure exactly how long. SPRINGER:Thank you. Commissioner Iwashita, thank you for waiting. IWASHITA:My question addresses the concern that you brought up right now. And, I guess, if the Commission considers and approves the request with the fair share requirement, is that something that you can accept or -? When you say that you talked about the project not being feasible, was the fair share assessment included? And so I would like to know whether or not you would really consider going forward with the project or not with that in there. CORREIA:The reason we pursued the project initially, again, is because you know, so to speak, it was entitled, we could walk in, and we were in the hopes that we would take over the project where it was left off. If we get caught into a fair share cost with site improvements on that particular project, itd be almost infeasible economically; and more than likely we would have to walk away, and itd sit there like it has for the last 12 years. So, yeah, to answer your question, wed probably have to walk away if weve got to, you know, foot out another $202,000. IWASHITA:So my understanding of what you just said is that if the fair share is included that you would not want to really proceed with this subdivision? CORREIA:Right, right. IWASHITA:Thank you. SPRINGER:At this time, I have a question of our Deputy Corporation Counsel Torigoe as far as process. The decision that we make today will be one to make a recommendation to the County Council of Hawaii. Our action today is not biding, that action would be taken by the County Council. Should we pass this application as recommended by the Department, the applicants would have the opportunity to debate further with the County Council, is that correct? 6