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startedoff the highway. Theres a church here and now theres, Im drawing a blank on the name of the stores that are in here, but its largely developed under special permits. And what we propose to do is open up a somewhat larger area for this. ALAMEDA:Questions, Fellow Commissioners? Commissioner Graham? GRAHAM:The Community Association in particular didnt like going down, I think th its 35 Avenue there, away from the main drive, because they said the road really doesnt support that at this time. Could you comment on that? YUEN:Well, I would hope that as a condition of any special permit or zoning improvement to the road commensurate to whatever kind of project was going to go in would be part of that, it would be part of the conditions of that. GRAHAM:Thank you. ALAMEDA:Other Commissioners? Seeing none, can we move to B-6? YUEN:Sure. Well, B-6 isin Waiakea Houselots, in Hilo. For orientation, this is Kekuanaoa Street. This is Kanoelehua; and along Kanoelehua around 1997, there was a General Amendment to High Density Urban. And this is an inter-play between, this is inter-play between the Zoning Code and the General Plan. Within High Density Urban in the General Plan, the Planning Department would support CG or General Commercial Zoning which includes some manufacturing; and ultimately this allowed the Big Island Candies project which does include somemanufacturingtolocateinthatspotjustbackofKanoelehua.Itseemstomakesense,the project wants to expand. We dont have any problem with the concept of expanding but to have the CG only extend up to Kanoelehua, and have that consistency between the General Plan and the zoning. We are processing this Interim Plan Amendment to extend the High Density Urban area, which is shown in red, up to Kanoelehua and to make a consistent block there, also on one lot on the makai side there. ALAMEDA:Questions, Fellow Commissioners, or comments? Commissioner Iwashita? IWASHITA:Can you explain again why this isnt spot zoning? ALAMEDA:Spot zoning is a term that applies to singling, is when zoning is done not in conformance with a comprehensive plan. So when you have a General Plan and the rezoning is consistent with that its not spot zoning. So this is the stage, this is the General Plan stage. If you just zone something to General Commercial and it wasnt called for in the General Plan, then that would be spot zoning. So the term just doesnt apply to a General Plan Amendment. ALAMEDA:Follow-up? IWASHITA:My general feeling is that the Community Development Plan implementation of the existing General Plan should be the process by which really any further changes to the General Plan, such as the one suggested, here should take place; and, you know, frankly, I dont really see any urgent need to go down this interim process in order to accomplish 6