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maybe the better thing to do would be to go directly into questions that the Commission has about particular amendments and talk about them inmore detail. And unless the Commissioners, were here, were ready to do the overall presentation if the Commissioners would like to see that. I wanted just to say a little bit about the process here. The ordinance now has a timeframe for the PlanningCommissionto consider these amendments. I believe its 60 days from the, what we would have you do is at the end, certainlyat the end of today, is continue the hearing because we want to have at least one hearing on each side of the island. But the ordinance says that you have 60 days to conduct your hearing on the Interim General Plan Amendments; and then you have, after the close of the hearing you have 30 days to make your recommendation to the Council. So that would be a 90-day time frame to make a recommendation to the Council. Like all General Plan Amendments, this is a recommendation from you to go up to the Council. And I did request earlier that the Commission hold that action on that item regarding roads in Waimea. Wevealsodonealittle,acoupleofthingsthattheCommissionhadaskedforatthelast meeting. We did an overlay of the flood zones on the proposed changes in Hilo. ALAMEDA:Okay. YUEN:And I think that map has been passed out to you. We made a slight change to the North Kona 2 Map that I had discussed at the workshop; and that is to add an Urban Expansion area on the north side of Honokohau Harbor. This was a request of DLNR; and although its shown Open on the current General Plan, there are some industrial facilities already on the north side of the Harbor there. So there are those two changes. I did want to make a couple of things clear. For the purposes of assisting the Commission, the public, the Council, in understanding where these map amendments are, we have most of these overlaid with a parcel data layer. If these are enacted, the General Plan Maps themselves do not have the parcel, layers and overlay. So those would come off. Also, we do not have the flood zones on the General Plan Maps. So this map that you have with Hilo showing the flood zones, this is informational. If this was enacted in the General Plan, then the flood zone layer would come off and we would map it without the flood zoned. So that is really up to the Commission whether you want to go directly into questions, or whether you want me to start a presentation, and also when you want to take public testimony. ALAMEDA:Thank you, Mr. Director. Commissioner Graham, you have any thoughts on that? GRAHAM:Sure. I did attend the last workshop meeting; and it was very good. So its valuable. But since I already saw it I just assume not do it again. ALAMEDA:Right. GRAHAM:And since to me much of whats there are really sort of relatively free- standing individual changes here and there, it would seem to me like a format that might work would be for those that are here to give testimony, who will probably give testimony about something specific, maybe they could give their testimony about something specific; and then 2EXHIBIT C