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that’s what we did. The people who live there are the people who should control their destiny. And you know, you saw the list of inputs, the number of people and the number of hours that this document was worked on, and I believe that it does quite fairly represent the community, and our document is to modify the General Plan to be representative of my community. The fact that there is differential between the type of plan that Kona has submitted or that Kohala has submitted or any of the other districts, it is meant to be reflective of those communities; that’s why it’s called a community development plan. And their issues, while we have some commonality, certainly are going to have differences, and their approaches are going to be different. And you know, quite frankly, if it is inconvenient for land use attorneys or planners or any of those people to keep up with it, that’s unfortunate. But all of them are representative of the people who live in those districts and of their wishes. And I believe that that’s what a good community planning process does, and I think that we met that. WATANABE: Thank you. Do we have any questions? Mr. Domingo. DOMINGO: Thank you. Just with regards to the comments of Mr. Olson. At first, Jon, I’d like to commend all you folks for what the end product that is before us, and just like to express my appreciation to you and many others who put in so much time in coming up with this Plan. By your comments that perhaps you or Puna had not had the opportunity to respond to the General Plan, I beg to differ because I think the opportunity was given to all communities throughout the island when they had the General Plan review. And it was by choice and -, that the opportunity was given to the people throughout various communities to go to the meetings and participate and respond to whatever concerns and suggestions were made at that time. And I think because perhaps none of these issues were brought up before the Council at that time, so that the General Plan was adopted as is today. And I think even after the adoption of the General Plan, and other rezoning and planning initiatives were considered, they were given – you know the process in land use planning – and, you know, it has always been that the people in a community, especially those impacted, were given an opportunity to go to public hearings and respond as in all other communities. So you know, because of that and because of the actions of the Council, we have the General Plan as is today. And what I was alluding to – and I don’t want to argue the point – was that I was of the impression that all Community Development Plans in the drafting of the Plan and considerations for changes or amendments should be for us to consider those things, which are in the General Plan, and reflect those issues in the General Plan, and that’s all, you know, that’s it. And you know how I feel about the rest of the portions of the CDP. That’s my only concern. But I’d just like to say thank you very much for your folks’ participation, and I think we can come up with a document that will be acceptable, hopefully, to all the people in the community. WATANABE: Mr. Woodward. WOODWARD: Mr. Chair, thank you. I was actually of the opinion that Mr. Olson was right; and that is a Community Development Plan affects the subsequent General Plan. Maybe we can get Director Yuen to address this question for us, that they don’t have to be guided by the current General Plan, that it will affect subsequent General Plans. YUEN: Well, the Community Development Plans can call for actions that would require the change in the General Plan, and the Community Development Plans should be EXHIBIT C 25