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SIRACUSA: Okay. Because I’m looking at the map here on Page 5-9, which is the Pahoa regional town center, and I don’t see the color code for the various areas; purple is industrial zone, but I don’t see any purple in this map at all. And yet, I have been thinking all along that an ideal area for an industrial or light-industrial zoning would be on Apaa Street by the -, as you go up to the Pahoa Solid Waste Transfer Station. And no one lives up there; so we wouldn’t be impacting anybody, and it’s close enough to town, and it has a lot of other good things that were recommended like a lot of weed trees and nothing really good stuff. So could you explain how come we don’t -? BROWN: Certainly. Quite frankly, the color coding on these maps, all of the colors except for blue indicate what the current zoning designation is. So the reddish or orange-ish or brownish, depending on how good your color copy came out, is commercial zone that’s existing zoning. The yellow is your existing residential, and the purple is the existing industrial zoning; there isn’t any in Pahoa at this time, and so that’s why you don’t see any purple in there. The blue is, basically what it is is it’s existing agricultural zoning, but it’s indicated in blue by the consultant to indicate the areas that he identifies as possible areas to be included in the village or town center area that would then have its zoning changed to whatever zoning designation that’s deemed appropriate for that particular community, okay. So now your suggestion is one that is worth merit, and it would be something that the Pahoa community and all the stakeholders involved in creating the master plan for the Pahoa village town center – okay, I used the right term – the Pahoa village town center, that would be one option that they should take a serious look at. Another one that we’ve heard came from Council Member Naeole on the 100-acre Hawaiian Home Lands parcel immediately makai of the new fire station, which is another good option in my opinion, perhaps even a better one. But that’s for the Pahoa community itself to decide when they create their master plan. SIRACUSA: Then I would suggest when you create the final draft, that these maps have a little, you know, something on them saying that this is the existing zoning because otherwise it’s going to come up again; people are going to misread the maps and misinterpret them. WATANABE: Okay. I think I started something that I -, it’s my fault; I take blame for this. You know, we have seven people who signed up to testify. We did indicate at the beginning that we would have a brief discussion. And like I said, I take responsibility for that; I think I opened it up and maybe a can of worms along with it. So if the two of you would kindly remain, so that we could continue this discussion and for those -, that would allow us to get through the seven testifiers who have been patiently waiting all day. Thank you, Mr. Brown. Okay, let me call up the first four testifiers: I have a Dan Taylor, Pamela Sullivan, Jeffrey Mermel and Steven Lim. Dan Taylor? MERMEL: Dan Taylor has left. WATANABE: Okay. Oh, he had to leave? MERMEL: Yes. EXHIBIT C 10