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PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAII HEARING TRANSCRIPT MAY 26, 2006 A regularly advertised hearing on the GENERAL PLAN INTERIM AMENDMENTS was called to order at 9:10 a.m. in the King INITIATED BY THE PLANNING DIRECTOR Kamehameha's Kona Beach Hotel, 75-5660 Palani Road, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii with Chairman C. Kimo Alameda presiding. PRESENT:C. Kimo AlamedaABSENT & EXCUSED: Jeffrey McCall Fred GaldonesRene Siracusa Bill Graham AndrewIwashita Allen Salavea Rodney Watanabe Ivan Torigoe, Deputy Corporation Counsel Christopher J. Yuen, Planning Director Norman Hayashi, Planning Program Manager Phyllis Fujimoto, Staff Planner Jeff Darrow, Staff Planner And approximately 22 people from the public in attendance. INITIATOR: PLANNING DIRECTOR General Plan Interim Amendments which include proposed changes to the text, policies, courses of action, Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide Map and Facilities Map. ALAMEDA:Well, today, we have a packed agenda. Were going to start off with our action on the General Plan Interim Amendments; and Im going to, we do have testimonies. Well have, the Director is going to present it again. This is the final time, I believe. Also, weve come to agreement on several of the amendments already so were going to take testimony only on those amendments that we still want to discuss today. So should I turn it over to staff, or Mr. Director? HAYASHI:Perhaps I could just -. ALAMEDA:Sure. HAYASHI:At the last Meeting, the Planning Commission voted to recommend approval of the Planning Directors package with the exception of a few which you wanted to discuss today. And those items are Map A-1, A-2, B-6, E-6, E-7, E-8, F-2 and also the Facilities Map. Although the Commissioners did make reference to the Waimea Bypass Road for discussion, as you recall, the Planning Director has asked that be deferred to a much later time until the study has been completed. So discussions on that should be deferred and also no action should be taken on that. 1