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GRAHAM:Any other questions from Commissioners? Mr. Fuke, I think maybe you referred to this but I didnt ask you specifically. Are you in accord with the conditions that the Planning Department has recommended for us here today? FUKE:Correct. Those conditions were also reviewed by Mr. Hirayama and they were acceptable. GRAHAM:All right, thank you. All right, you can step back now. So, Commissioners, we have a recommendation to the County Council on a change of zone application before us. So we could accept a motion at this point, or any comments, or discussions that you would like to put forward. Commissioner Salavea? SALAVEA:Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move that a favorable recommendation be forwarded to the County Council on the application for a Change of Zone Docket No. REZ 06- 000034basedonthePlanningDirectorsrecommendationandproposedconditions. GRAHAM:Thankyou.Dowehaveasecond? GALDONES:Second. GRAHAM:CommissionerGaldones,thankyou.Anydiscussionbythe Commissioners? Yes, Commissioner Iwashita. IWASHITA:For the record, Id like to reiterate my on-going concerns about the process that were going through to create in the Houselots area basically. The only example that comes to mind right now is another Kihei kind of strip mall development; and one that I cannot support as Ive stated numerous times earlier. I really believe that the process that needs to be followed to develop this area is the implementation of the Community Development Plan process which is authorized under the General Plan Amendment adopted last year. The Council has the authority to proceed with that process. And Id like to make it clear on the record that I believe the Council should do that, that it should implement the Community Development Plan process for Hilo, not just for the Houselots area but for the entire city; and that whether or not a project like Mr. and Mrs. Hirayama goes forward in this particular area in this particular manner should be addressed, as Mr. Fuke so accurately set out in discussing how we got to where we are today in terms of our planning process. In the big picture, what Mr. Fuke described basically got us what we have today, all of the benefits and all of the problems. We are today engaged in basically that same process, nothing different. And its the same process that got us to where we are today, got Maui to where it is today, got Oahu to where it is today, and got LA to where it is today. None of the laws are any different. Our laws are all the same. Our zoning and planning and subdivision laws are all the same; and were headed down that road unless we do something different. Our General Plan Amendment adopted last year provides a way to do something different; and that is the Community Development Plan. Im very pleased to see all of you here today showing an interest in where Hilo is going and what we do and how it affects that development. The Community Development Plan Process hopefully the Council will do something about it. So in the next couple of years, plus or minus, we can get something done that is specific as to design, whether or not the community wants to have a strip mall on Manono Street, and a strip mall on 10EXHIBIT B