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and they do a zoning change and three guys show up to testify, and maybe about a zoning change, you get what you get on Oahu, -. ARAKAWA: Exactly. IWASHITA: You get what you get on Maui. That’s how it happens. The community development plan in my mind if implemented correctly with lots of community involvement is a different process that gives us, each individual community, not the Planning Commission, not the Council, right -? Because left to their own devices all best interests taken into consideration you get Oahu, you get Kapolei, you get Hawaii Kai, you get Mililani, you get H-1, you get H-2, you get H-3, all with good intentions, all lousy results. And on Maui you get Kihei, wow, you get Kihei, you get Wailea, you get Kaanapali -. ARAKAWA: No I, Mr. Chair? WATANABE: Okay, Mr. Iwashita -. IWASHITA: Okay so -. WATANABE: I might have to limit you to the three minutes. IWASHITA: Thank you, Mr. Chair, I appreciate your indulgence. ARAKAWA: Mr. Chair, I have just one comment. I agree 100 percent with Mr. Iwashita. And once we in Waipahu and the Leeward area get the power we are going to put the prison and the rubbish dump in Waikiki, and Kahala, and Kaimuki, and in Kaneohe, and Kailua. IWASHITA: You bring up a good point. I think every community on this island, every community on this island should be addressing when there are 250,000 people living in the Puna district where is the prison going to be. ARAKAWA: But somebody has got to -. IWASHITA: This plan doesn’t talk about it. You bring up a very good point. Same thing, same thing with the West side, okay, all of those things -. But those decisions need to be, those concerns need to be addressed and it’s a long-term thing. We don’t have to do it right now. WATANABE: Mr. Iwashita, there are a number of other people that want to be heard also. IWASHITA: Thank you, Mr. Chair. 19