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ALAMEDA:Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Iwashita. Commissioner <br />Galdones. <br />GALDONES:Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I hope the motion that I had made is not <br />viewed by Commissioner Iwashita as a small point of view cause I assure the Commissioners <br />and the public also here that I do have, I€m looking at the big picture, too, and my responsibility <br />as a Commissioner. <br />The reason why I am supporting this, I€d like my fellow Commissioners to understand where I€m <br />coming from in presenting this motion to you. A lot of points that were made by Commissioner <br />Iwashita I cannot disagree with. It€s very uncomfortable for the Commissioners that piece-meal <br />applications do come forward to the Commissioners. But the Commissioners, however, on the <br />other hand, are guided by policies and rules and regulations that, whatever we have before us. I <br />foroneamnotadvocatingthatwetakeawayallofhousingandthatbusinessesjustencroachinto <br />the neighborhood and take away all of our affordable housing. We all know that there is a crises, <br />we read about that, regarding affordable housing. However now, in this particular case, the <br />applicant, Ms. Tripp, did go to the community and informed the community of her application; <br />and in the report that we have gotten back is that there was no comment from the community at <br />all. I am guided by the community. I would like to empower them to decide what their <br />community should look like. It€s not for me to tell them what their community should look like. <br />She did that. She followed the rules, she followed the regulations; and the community decided <br />by absence of any comment that they are accepting her application. And that influences me. <br />Secondly is what we call the LUPAG, which is the Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide Map. In <br />accordance with the report that was given by the staff, it is in conformance to the LUPAG Map. <br />So those information that is being presented to us does influence my decision on how we should <br />be proceeding on this. If we decide that we do not want any further business development of this <br />kind of nature in communities, I think what we should do is go before the County Council or the <br />regulating body to establish moratorium on all communities until such time that the communities <br />come up with their own community development map. But short of that, the applicant is <br />following all of the regulations and rules and procedures that she needs to follow, and she meets <br />all of that, and the community is okay with it. And, therefore, I believe that this application <br />should be forwarded to the County Council favorably by the Planning Commission. <br />ALAMEDA:Okay, Commissioner Watanabe? <br />WATANABE:That€s all right. I don€t want to be redundant. <br />ALAMEDA:Okay. Commissioner McCall? <br />MCCALL:Yeah, just, again, I will be voting favorably for this. I think that this is in <br />compliance with, not in compliance, but this fits in with where the development of Hilo is going. <br />I am concerned about the loss of housing and the housing crisis. But, you know, as a body or as <br />a county or whatever, we can make recommendations on where we want, you know, zoning <br />changes can be approved. We cannot force somebody to build housing, we cannot force <br />somebody to build something. In my tenure here on the Planning Commission I have approved <br />many times over more housing for Hilo than I have taken out housing as commercial probably, I <br />14EXHIBIT A <br /> <br />