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we’ve got to do something different, nobody else wants to do it, it’s not going to get done. I
<br />realize that. Right?
<br />But in my position as a Planning Commissioner I view that obligation to include looking at this
<br />big picture and that this process that we’re going through, giving entitlements, right, in these
<br />applications for change of zone has dramatic significant impact on the community for the long
<br />term. And that if we’re looking long term waiting a couple of years to get a Community
<br />Development Plan done for Hilo including Houselots, and I disagree with the comment that,
<br />well, you know, it has to be, you have to look at the big picture and Houselots, the people in -.
<br />You know, we have these last couple applications a lot of interest from the Houselots community
<br />about what they don’t want, right? Hopefully that can translate in a Community Development
<br />Plan process to what they do want for that entire area. And it’s significant enough an area, you
<br />know, where that, I think the Community Development Plan can address those particular area
<br />concerns. It can address like where my present office is, you know, Mohouli, this immediate
<br />area, how this area is going to look. It can address these different little pockets of the community
<br />that have a long history, that have very interested community members and residents and so forth
<br />that will come out and say, you know, in 20 years this is how we want it to look, and this is how
<br />we want people to be able to live here. We don’t want it all commercialized, we don’t want it,
<br />you know, a Kakaako kind of a place, which Houselots can easily become if we keep going
<br />down this road, you know, how Kakaako is today which they’re raising. And so I really disagree
<br />that the Community Development Plan is this sort of limited thing that you really cannot rely on
<br />it. I think it’s, right now, as far as I’m concerned, really the only avenue that I see that this
<br />community can go down to create a future in our community that we’ll like and we won’t look
<br />back and say we may as well live in Honolulu, cause that’s what it’s going to be.
<br />ALAMEDA:This is an opportunity for questions. I want to limit our opinions to our
<br />discussion, if we may. And thank you for being patient with us. Commissioner Siracusa?
<br />SIRACUSA:Well, I’ll keep it very brief because I just wanted to say that in a lot of
<br />things I agree with Commissioner Iwashita about the need for a Community Development Plan.
<br />And I wanted to once again urge the Director to see about getting some funds to do one for this
<br />Waiakea Houselots area. It’s obviously very, very needed. By the same token I also feel that a
<br />lot of our problems come from the fact that some of the permitted uses for the various types of
<br />zoning don’t seem to really suit the types of zoning they’re set up for. So, for example, you
<br />create one kind of an ambiance in a neighborhood when you have some offices or maybe some
<br />boutiques and shops like that. It’s not the same ambiance that’s created when you put in a gas
<br />station; and yet those are permitted uses in the same kind of zoning. So I really feel that that sort
<br />of thing, what the permitted uses are, should be looked at with a view to making some changes
<br />for the future so that it will make it a lot easier for us to make decisions based on that.
<br />ALAMEDA:Can I ask -?
<br />YUEN:Actually I agree with that. I’m not happy with the existing categories of
<br />the Zoning Code. The idea behind the RCX zoning was that it was supposed to be a
<br />Neighborhood compatible Commercial zoning. So, because you can say, like take the previous
<br />application this morning, Dr. Adee’s medical office. Okay, you have a one- or two-doctor
<br />medical office in a neighborhood, not that big a deal, especially if it’s a retrofit of an existing
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