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of Honokohau Harbor was shown as Open and we kept that in the 2005 General Plan. And then when we made this amendment here, this area, this is the area that was E-4 and went from Open to were proposing Alternate Urban Expansion. It was pointed out to us that the Alternate Urban Expansion should also go into the area north of the Honokohau Harbor Road and north of the harbor, up against the boundary with the National Park. This is-. There are already some Light Industrial facilities there. Theres a boat storage there and so this is a slight modification to the previous map to show this area as Urban Expansion. It doesnt go to the coastal area. Theres some discussion between the State and the National Park about the National Park taking over the State land right at the point here. So we left that out. But showed an Urban Expansion area a slight modification to the map here. ALAMEDA:So noted. Commissioner Watanabe? WATANABE:I have a quick question. One of the testifiers, David Tarnas, had indicated that a General Plan in the RFP would require that there be some at least Resort in that areasouth of Honokohau which is now proposed for Urban Expansion? YUEN:Well-. WATANABE:Im not trying to put you on the spot. YUEN:No, well, Im always on the spot. At the moment my position is opposed to that. And their specific proposal is for something like 1500 to 2000 resort and timeshare units at, in the Honokohau Harbor area, which I think given the present growth situation in the Kailua-Kona, the housing deficit, the traffic problem. I would not support a growth generating development of that nature. Were still discussing aspects of that and maybe ways that can be reduced or mitigated but Im not supporting that amendment right at the moment and I havent put that in. What hes referring to though as far as the change was that there was-. This, if you see this little area here? There was a small area shown as Resorton the 1989 General Plan that was taken out in the 2005 amendments. And when the, that was still in at the time when the State was doing some of the planning for the, for the Honokohau Harbor area. Although this was something that was in the Directors proposed General Plan changes to take this out from roughly April, 2001. So thats the issue and Im, as I said, Im not at the moment inclined to initiate a change to Resort to have a resort at Honokohau Harbor for the reason I just stated. ALAMEDA:All right. Other questions for our Director? Commissioner Iwashita? IWASHITA:Did you say that there were houses and such built in that what was previously designated Open? YUEN:Yes. If you were to take a strict look at the map yes. IWASHITA:Sohowdidthathappen? YUEN:WellImnotsurewhatthezoningisforthearea.Butifyou,therearemany examples where because the mapping on the General Plan level is not meant to be precise that zoning doesntexactlyfollowtheGeneralPlan.Butgiven,youknowgiventhatweredoingtheseinterim amendments and weve, were doing a change here that we really wanted to try to make the map more EXHIBIT D 16