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customary uses and recreation. And thats really what weretrying to look at here cause you get into a wet zone, what, how does-. And I would just sort of hope you encourage perhaps this project could be done as a model, how does one go about doing that where you have commercial leases and important sacred cultural land. So if discussions come up on that I just would hope that you look at what alternatives to do such a sort of a community working through a process that doesnt fit into any of these specific zoning categories that you now have. Thank you very much. ALAMEDA:Thank you. Very well thought out appreciate that. Any questions? Thanks you may be seated. We have 3 more testifiers. Will Larry Ford please come forward? And a David Tarnas? And Rick Vidgen. These will be the final testifiers for today. Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth now before the Hawaii County Planning Commission? TESTIFIERS:I do. ALAMEDA:Thank you. Please start on my far left. Please state your name and address for the record and you may proceed. TARNAS:My name is David Tarnas. I live at 66-1672 Waiaka Place, Kamuela. Im here today representing Jacoby Development and I wanted to provide comments, which I had provided earlier at the workshop. Id like to reiterate those and Ill be brief but on the same topic, two different areas. Let me briefly say I represent Jacoby Development and they were selected by Department of Land and Natural Resources and Department of Hawaiian Homelands to develop the 500 acres of State land that is adjacent to North Kohala small boat harbor. The RFP put out by the State agencies that Jacoby Development responded to included a variety of different land uses that the State agencies are envisioning. Department of Hawaiian Homelands has 200 acres they envision as commercial development, its a primary commercial-, their primary land parcel in West Hawaii for commercial development to generate revenues for Department of Hawaiian Homelands to do their job. So they put out an RFP for that. Jacoby responded. DLNR put out a RFP for the 300 acres adjacent to it, to expand Honokohau Harbor and develop a mixed use development around that. And in both of the RFPs mixed-use included commercial, retail. It also included hotel and time-share so transient accommodations are key components of what the State agencies are requesting of the developer to do. Jacoby Development has a lease with DHHL, February 04 assigning them in a development agreement with DLNR, November 05. Their proposal, Jacoby Developments proposal includes all the elements that meet the State agencys request. It includes a road, which I want to comment on under your public facilities and it also includes this mixed-use development around the harbor, which is the topic of my second comment, which is the LUPAG map. Mr. Chairman if I may on page 5 under Public Facilities it refers to under P, Construct a proposed shore drive from the Old Kona Airport park to the Kealakehe Drive intersection. I recognize this is just a change in the lettering however its reflected on the road maps A as to a route. I would only request that this alignment I guess is in concept only and we, the idea is to connect from Kealakehe Parkway to Kuakini Highway and the route really depends Queen Liliuokalani Trust. Its their land that has to be crossed and they have to consider burial sites and other archaeologicalsites.Sothealignmentasitisonthemapmaynotbethefinaloneaftertheseconsiderations. On the LUPAG map this would be on page 4 of those proposed amendments, which is E4 open to urban expansionlocationsintheareaofHonokohauHarbor.ThisrationaledescriptionIdliketoprovidea comment on that and then a comment on the LUPAG map. Under the rationale, the description says the Stateplanstoexpandtheharborandhavesomeassociatedcommercialandgolfdevelopmentssurrounding the harbor. The developments include coastal open space buffer exact dimensions to be set time of zoning. EXHIBIT D 11