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closely what we think match – and it’s kind of a mirror of what’s shown on Page 5-8 of your Puna CDP – we’ve tried to re-characterized the description of the Keaau town center, so that you could take advantage of the regional town center designation. As you’ve probably noticed on the existing Puna CDP that’s before you, the regional town center is not defined on this map, and that was left for later on. We think that’s one of the big things that should be defined in the CDP. And to illustrate the point, as you go through the colored diagrams, the first colored diagram is entitled Draft Community Development Plan Keaau Regional Town Center; so this is a copy of the existing 5-8 map with the red crosshatches showing you the areas that are owned by W. H. Shipman, Limited in Keaau – that’s just for illustrative purposes. As you can see, certain areas owned by Shipman are included, and others in the area are designated by the State Land Use Commission in the Urban District, and therefore already slated for urban development. Large areas of those Urban District lands are not shown as any type of development on this Plan. We understand from the Planning Department staff that the blue color, which on the legend says other zone, that was intended to be agricultural land, and I’m assuming that that’s, that’s what I think Mr. Brown told one of my staffers. So when you turn to the second page that is an overlay – it’s kind of a little bit complicated but – overlay of the yellow and the orange right in the Keaau town center area show the low density urban and the medium density urban in the Keaau town center; and on the left side of the page, which is the west side of the Volcano Highway, is the urban expansion area. These are the current County General Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide Map designations; so these are the current law, this was adopted as a General Plan. So when you look at the current Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide Maps versus the first map on the existing Page 5-8, you can see that there are significant differences in terms of what’s proposed in the General Plan currently; and what the Puna CDP proposes to do is it’s going to reduce the developable area down significantly. And the last map is our suggested revision of the Keaau regional town center; this will be a suggested revision to Page 5-8. What this shows is the combination of the existing LUPAG General Plan designations on the east side on the Keaau village side, and on the west side on the left side of the page the Keaau regional town center and the Shipment Business Park. These are areas that include the large areas of already Urban State Land Use District lands and the existing zoning for the Keaau town center and Shipman Business Park areas. We feel that this is a more realistic map as to what is actually planned and already zoned out there, and that the current 5-8 map is very restrictive in terms of both the area designated and with respect to the chart that limits the total number of square footage of commercial uses that would be proposed even if that was a regional town center. So that concludes my presentation for today. We’re going to come back again obviously when we’re going to back out to Puna. I hope that we’ll have more text amendments for you at that time. But I appreciate your attention to this matter, and thank you very much. WATANABE: Thank you. Do we have any questions for Mr. Lim? Okay. Yes, yes, Chris. YUEN: I’m not sure why this is a point of conflict. And the reason why I say this is, you know, the question here is the extent of the expansion of Keaau Town within the time horizon of the General Plan or the Community Development Plan, which basically are plans that are renewed on the 10-year basis with roughly a 20-year time horizon, all right? So Shipman on the Mauna Kea side of Highway 11 got State Land Use reclassification of 140 acres in the early 1990s and rezoning of 32 acres of commercial in 2002, not one square foot of which has been developed till today. So Shipman is then saying this 140 acres, which is the amount shown for EXHIBIT C 12