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are being held under the moratorium are bad, bad plans. I don’t know if that’s true or not, you know. You said that if it’s delayed any longer you would allow those plans and people to upzone and increase density. So I’m not sure that increased density or those plans are bad. And on the second issue of, you know, passing a plan, hurry up and pass a plan, it’s my own personal feeling, I would rather take my time and pass something good that’s for the good of the community, than to pass something bad just because something is going to expire and you want to beat the clock on some other issue, you know, or you want to beat the clock on the moratorium -. The moratorium shouldn’t control, you should say there’s this moratorium -. Well, it’s my own personal feeling, you shouldn’t say there’s this moratorium out there so therefore let’s hurry up and pass this bad plan. So, I don’t know, that’s just me. But everybody has their own point of view. WATANABE: Thank you. Mr. Woodward? WOODWARD: I just have a comment. We’ve heard from two speakers, both of them from Honolulu, that have large property holdings and are interested in developing. I’m not sure that that’s really what the community wants. I’m not saying that you don’t have any valid points because I think some of the points you made are probably valid. And this process is not perfect, none of us are perfect. But, you know, the first two speakers we have here live in Honolulu and they are large landowners and they’re developers, and that casts a little bit of a shadow on the way I look at this whole scenario. ARAKAWA: Well, I think if anybody looks at the papers that we’ve prepared these are sound planning principals. You could live in Maui, you live in Oahu, you could live on the Big Island, you could live on Kauai, you could live in Sacramento, California and all of these would be true. But, you know, we’re coming here because we do have issues that we think are important. We do believe that the plans could be improved and, you know, that’s our position. I cannot help if you don’t believe what we say because we’re from Honolulu. I cannot help if that’s how you feel. But, you know, we believe if you show this document or Tom Witten’s document to any planner anywhere in the United States they would say that these are sound planning principals. WOODWARD: Well, we appreciate your testimony, and like I say I think some of the points you made were very valid. And as I said before, the process is not perfect. It will never be made perfect. But I just wanted that on the record that, you know, we haven’t yet heard from the people in the community here; and we’ll see what they have to say. WATANABE: Ms. Bowman. BOWMAN: I think I’m going to date myself. But I worked on the, you know, I’m from Kohala, on the North Kohala Community Development Plan. And what we did in the seventies, and it happened to be PBR Hawaii was, were the planners. And I know 17