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be today? Where would the applicant be today? The applicant would have double access and no opportunity to ask for doing what we’re being asked to do today. There is something very wrong with our process when things have to be done this way, and we see this, in my opinion, on a much too regular basis. So here’s my pitch. I’m not going to vote for this, in favor of it. And as most of the Commissioners know, I really believe and I really would like to get a commitment from as many people as possible, including the Director, to have the community development process implemented island-wide all at once and it be done in a way so that in the future we don’t have to be dealing with this, or we’ll deal with these kinds of situations on a minimal basis. And the reason I think that’s possible is that the community development plan will allow basically, hopefully force, or the community members will see it’s an opportunity to, you know, if the remaining residents of Punahele Street want to continue to see it as a residential area it has to be within the context of what’s already there and then what you want in the future and how people are going to get around. And my guess is not one person that goes into this building walks. Not one worker, not one patient, nobody walks to this building. That is an inherent problem in how we do things because we’ll never, never, never have enough parking spaces or enough roads. Everybody grumbles about all the roads. We’ll never have enough if we keep doing things like this. So, you know, I know there’s a problem. It’s a problem that’s created in part by the rules, it’s a problem frankly created in part by the developers who use the rules to get their developments done and don’t make adequate provisions for parking. You know, people talk about a crystal ball, you don’t need a crystal ball. You know, you’re planning a medical building and a doctors office and radiological facilities, you know, I’m sure in their business plan they know how much profit per square foot they’re going to get or they’re not going to build it. Right? And part of that is parking. So if we take out 20 parking stalls and we don’t build them, then that increases the profitability of the office space we have. These are developers that are building these buildings. They may be doctors also but they’re developers. They can count the dollars, right? So we need to do things differently. I, you know, I’m sorry if -. My sense is this is going to pass and when it goes to Council it will go by Council, the same way that Fern Acres went by Council, the same way that Orchidland went by Council, the same way that Paradise Park went by Council, the same way when all these things that we thought were great that, you know, would provide jobs for the community, and alleviate certain problems, right? We close our eyes to the problems we create. And if we keep closing our eyes to the problems we create somebody is going to come around and kick us in the behind one day and say, and it’s probably going to be our grandkids, if not our kids. My son is already kicking me about some of the things he sees going on here. So they see a lot clearer what’s going on. They don’t see the problems, they don’t see the rights, they don’t see the entitlements. They just see on the ground that there are problems that we are creating; and today we’ll create another, or will push one on to create another one. Thank you, Mr. Chair. GRAHAM: Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA: Yes. While I agree with most of what Commissioner Iwashita has said, at the same time we already have, this building is already in place, this medical area is already in place and we are stuck with the poor planning problem that we were left with of insufficient EXHIBIT C 25