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planning consultant, PlanPacific, to offer some additional amendments or recommendations for the Director to consider, and to submit to the Planning Commission at the next hearing, that will address the concern. So it is very clear that this Puna CDP does recognize that additional local community planning efforts will be required subsequent to adoption of the Puna CDP to identify the parameters and the boundaries for proposed village or town centers, and these will be done at the local level for those individual village centers at a time that is appropriate for those specific areas, whether it be in one of the subdivisions such as Leilani, which may have a village center in 20 years, 30 years or maybe never; it’s up to that particular community to make that decision. But others such as Keaau, Pahoa and Hawaiian Paradise Park are probably more likely to happen sooner rather than later, and it will probably require initiation by the County with extensive participation by those local communities. Thank you. WATANABE: Thank you. Do we have any questions for Mr. Brown? Yes, Mr. Domingo. DOMINGO: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Brown, are you saying that this Community Development Plan should be adopted by resolution? BROWN: No, it should be adopted by ordinance. DOMINGO: So then you are deferring further implementation of the CDP Plan to your individual planning group on various issues by the community themselves? BROWN: Correct. For village and town centers in particular, those would need to be done at a later date by those individual communities at a time that’s right for them. DOMINGO: When they do consider those issues, are there any guidelines stipulated in the Community Development Plan as to how they would go about and what considerations they may have with regards to the planning effort? BROWN: There are guidelines in the Puna CDP to provide guidance – guidelines to provide guidance – for the size, the scope, the scale of an individual community or village center depending upon whether it’s one of the three different classes that are described in the CDP. The CDP doesn’t give guidance as to how to go about community engagement or the master planning effort; but that would be something that would be worked out in collaboration between the action committees or community implementation committees as well as the Planning Department. OLSON: If I may. DOMINGO: Jon. OLSON: If I may use an example of Hawaiian Paradise Park. They’ve already had three rounds over the last twelve years of the planning process. And we pretty much just adopted their plan. They have a well-organized lot owners’ organization; you know, 8,000 plus lot owners belong to the association. They send out a quarterly newsletter. So they already have a process in place. And that is true of most of what you will see in the plan, is that we looked at what the community had already done, the validity of what they’ve done, and if it would looked EXHIBIT C 3