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ATTA: I guess this development process is a long process, even for the private owners who have to plan things and, you know, pay for studies and stuff like that. When we were starting this, David and Greg Golden and Ernie Mansi have been actually involved in it for two, a little over two years, almost three years from when they first started looking at the property. The CDP, the original deadline for completion of the CDP was much earlier at that time and we were kind of started our studies with the idea and thinking that the CDP would be completed by the end of last year; and so that was the timing that we were initially going with. We understand that it got extended as the work of the committee involved more, and more, you know, more communication with the community. And so that’s why the timing doesn’t fit. We had made it with the original schedule in mind; and so that’s how come we submitted it within that timetable. But we’re, you know, we’re aware of the moratorium so we know that the rezoning will be, you know, conditional on the CDP approval; and we understood that. But, you know, as in development timing is important, both from a pricing and market standpoint; and so there’s always a risk involved. We’re trying to minimize the lag times and delay and be ready. So, and we thought we were doing it. Obviously when the CDP deadline extended then that changed it.But some of the financing and planning, you know, is due to that schedule. And so that’s why we submitted it. It was never with any intention of trying to supersede or preempt any of the, you know, the work of the CDP there. Cause we’ve been keeping in close contact with that. SIRACUSA: Follow-up? WATANABE: Follow-up. th SIRACUSA: I do notice that the resolution was signed on March 12 so you did have time to ask for a delay to have this come to us later on. I really wished you had because it’s an awful lot of material to present us with and ask us to make a decision that may or not really be consistent with the CDP, which we haven’t seen yet. And I like to feel that, you know, I’m being diligent in reviewing all the material before I make my decisions; and you’ve sort of taken that away from me, and I’m not happy with that. So I just want you to know that, that that, there may have been all these other reasons but it still means that the Commissioners do not have an opportunity to adequately study this matter and study it in relation to the draft CDP. WATANABE: Mr. Rho. RHO: In the background report, Applicant Exhibit 9, are you familiar with that? LIM: This is -? RHO: And I have questions on paragraphs 2, 3, and the last paragraph. It says on the second paragraph that the developer will fulfill County park requirements by providing a three-acre park on nearby land. And you mentioned in passing something about that park would be mauka of the property. Is that on the same, in the same area as that affordable housing? EXHIBIT B 11