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ALAMEDA:Commissioner Siracusa? IWASHTIA:If Mr. Fuke wants, I brought it up to address Mr. Fuke’s comments on that. So if he wanted to -. ALAMEDA:Okay, any feedback, comments? FUKE:Well, I guess, several things. I think if I, I don’t have that before me but I’ll just trust what you just read. And if I heard you correctly, you know, relative to like the architectural design, I think the operable verb was “may” as opposed to “shall.” Is that correct? IWASHITA:That’s correct, the community has the opportunity. FUKE:Right, right. Well, as I understand in any Community Development Plan, you know, and you also kind of pointed it out too as I understood what you read, is that the Community Development Plan, you know, really emanates from the General Plan, because I don’t think the Community Development Plan can trump the General Plan. It can provide further definition to it because the General Plan by its very nature is intended to be relatively broad. And you can have a Community Development Plan that may or may not reflect specific design restrictions. And I think that if you’re going to have specific architectural designs, then I think that probably the more appropriate tool would be to have further development plans for a particular area, case in point, Kailua-Kona. Kailua-Kona has a special design plan cause it was deemed to be in the whole scheme of like Kailua or in the whole scheme of Kona this is like a very special area. And so there was like a special design plan complete with all of the kinds of things you’re talking about. We talked about the type of street furniture, the width of roads, so on and so forth. So the Kuakini Highway that’s nearing completion is largely a reflection of that Kailua-Village Design Plan. That’s the Kailua Village portion. If you’re talking about like having maybe something similar to like the Houselots area, well, that could conceivably be done. But whether that necessarily should be covered in a broader framework of a Community Development Plan which would thus have to embrace the entire City of Hilo and not the Waiakea Houselots area -. There are other areas that have a specific design plan. There was one prepared, I don’t know if you remember, Commissioner Siracusa, but there was one that may be kind of obsolete, but there was one prepared for Keaau, there was one prepared for the town of Pahoa, there was one prepared for the town of Honokaa, there was one prepared for the town of Waimea. They are all specific designs plans, but within those, and also for Downtown Hilo. And within those broad, you know like there’s a reference to a Hilo Community Development Plan. There’s a Hilo Community Development Plan and there’s also a Downtown Development Plan which has very specific definition, more specific than what the Hilo Community Development Plan discusses. So my sense is like, in response to, you know, since you gave me an opportunity, is that like there is a difference between a Community Development Plan and maybe a more specific district or area design plan that, what you might be talking about. And I guess the only point I was 8EXHIBIT A