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PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAII HEARING TRANSCRIPT APRIL 7, 2006 A regularly advertised hearing on the GENERAL PLAN INTERIM AMENDMENTS was called to order at 1:14 p.m. in the INITIATED BY THE PLANNING DIRECTOR County Building, Councilroom - Room 201, 25 Aupuni Street, Hilo, Hawaii with Chairman C. Kimo Alameda presiding. PRESENT:C. Kimo AlamedaABSENT & EXCUSED: Allen Salavea Fred Galdones Bill Graham AndrewIwashita Jeffrey McCall Rene Siracusa Rodney Watanabe Ivan Torigoe, Deputy Corporation Counsel Christopher J. Yuen, Planning Director Norman Hayashi, Planning Program Manager Phyllis Fujimoto, Staff Planner Jeff Darrow, Staff Planner And approximately 8 people from the public in attendance INITIATOR: PLANNING DIRECTOR General Plan Interim Amendments which include proposed changes to the text, policies, courses of action, Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide Map and Facilities Map. ALAMEDA:Agenda Item No. 4, New Business. Initiator is the Planning Director, and this is the General Plan Interim Amendments. We will be taking testimony on this as well. And this is part of our continuation on our last weeks workshop, if you will. And just for the testifiers, I want to give you a heads up that, if we can keep the testimony specific to the proposal that the Director will be sharing with us today and not try to go off on anything else. So we ask that you pay attention to this part of the proceedings at this time; and Ill turn it over to Mr. Director or staff. YUEN:Ill take it over. ALAMEDA:Okay, thank you. YUEN:Good afternoon, everyone. This is actually the first public hearing on a set of interim amendments. Most of you were here last week. We did a workshop on these amendments where these amendments were the only item on the agenda; and we went through them one by one. Im really at the pleasure of the Commission as to whether the Commission wants to start with that kind of a presentation. It did take a couple of hours last time. I think 1EXHIBIT C