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the CDP as the expansion area, is not enough, and that we should have an area of roughly – how many acres will this be, just on the Mauna Kea side, in ballpark 800 acres, 900 acres? LIM: That will be fairly consistent with the -, probably about 800 acres, I think, the 660 acres that was urban plus 200 acres or so in the Industrial Park. YUEN: Yeah, so my question is why this is -, given the pace of what we’ve actually seen, why is this a point of conflict? LIM: I think a part of the reason for the Shipman’s concern over the Puna CDP is that it doesn’t even recognize that growth; I mean, it’s the existing growth on the 5-8 map. Part of the reason for the Keaau town conceptual master plan effort within the last 2 years was to develop through the community’s input what they wanted to see out in Keaau, and the plan as they developed it through the Shipman effort, I think, has been totally or at least partly ignored in the Puna CDP. I agree with you that this plan should show a 20-year build-out; and if all the population projections are correct, the Puna District in say 10 or 12 or 15 years is going to be greater in population than North and South Hilo. Then I think we will need all the facilities and services that are present there today, that we are planning there in the Shipman master plan. I mean, the whole idea of Shipman’s plan is that they will provide these regional commercial services and light-industrial services, so that people didn’t have to go all the way in to Hilo, as they do today. YUEN: Yeah, I agree with that. And I think Bill Walter had a good point on the 250,000 square feet on the regional center. I just question the need for the extent of the future urban area, especially the commercial area, that’s shown in this Plan here. LIM: I believe that you have a good point in that Shipman hasn’t done anything yet. I think this is one of those things where once it goes, it’s going to go relatively quickly. I expect the pace of development, once they get that first anchor tenant out there, to go relatively quickly. But you know, that raises -, I think it highlights my point, which is – you and I are having a very good discussion now – that decision should be made and put in the Plan; right now it’s not. YUEN: Okay, that’s all I have right now. WATANABE: Thank you. Yes, Mr. Domingo. DOMINGO: Mr. Chairman, you know, I have been of the opinion that the Community Development Plan should reflect what is already in the General Plan. And what we are seeing here in the CDP is a change in the LUPAG Map and some of the probably policy statements, like you know, we’ve seen the urban expansion area designations in the County of Hawaii General Plan LUPAG, except where they correspond to the recommended village center boundaries for Keaau and Pahoa. In that sense what I’m looking at is a default rezoning, you know, a default rezoning – in fact, you can say upzoning because you are taking away the privilege of the landowners from developing their lands as they already were entitled to do in the case of the Shipman property. And because they have not taken any initiative to develop it within this timeframe up till today – and I think we accept the fact that marketing, financing and other EXHIBIT C 13