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trying to make, just two general points. One is that if there is going to be like no action taken
<br />until, or no favorable action taken at least until the Community Development Plan or a specific
<br />design development plan for a particular area is prepared, then I would suggest that it behooves
<br />the County Council to make, you know, to assume a position and pass an ordinance or pass a
<br />resolution to say henceforth nothing happens in this area. Because until that time happens, you
<br />know, like the public doesn’t know how to react, you know, landowners don’t know how to
<br />react. You know, do we come in and every time go before the Planning Commission and go
<br />before the County and it’s almost like a crapshoot? You know, you don’t know whether you’re
<br />going to go up, you don’t whether you’re going to go down, in spite of how good a case one can
<br />make that it complies with the general principles of the planning bible, which is the General
<br />Plan.
<br />And the other thing, the other point I was trying to make is that if you do, if and when you do
<br />prepare a Community Development Plan, that you cannot have, I could not visualize a situation
<br />where the Development Plan would allow a use that would not be considered by the General
<br />Plan. For example, you have a Hilo Community Development Plan and you, I mean, you know,
<br />you have the General Plan and you have a CDP for Hilo. And if you try to designate in the CDP
<br />an Industrial area where the General Plan does not suggest that that should be Industrial, then
<br />what you’re doing is, you know, you’re having the CDP then guide the General Plan; and that
<br />really shouldn’t be the case. So, I mean, that was my whole point.
<br />ALAMEDA:Very good, thank you, Mr. Fuke. Follow-up, Commissioner Iwashita?
<br />IWASHITA:Thank you, Mr. Chair. I don’t think anything in my comments suggested
<br />the result that you, your last comment suggests. Just to be clear, the language of the General
<br />Plan is that the title is planned implementation, how do the general provisions of the General
<br />Plan get implemented. And Community Development Plans is the way it’s supposed to be done.
<br />That’s how it’s structured. Okay? So, you know, and the General Plan notes that in prior
<br />General Plans there were provisions for Community Development Plans which were never done,
<br />right, for most of the, well, for most of the island. Like there’s basically just the Hilo
<br />Community Plan, right, and it’s resolution, it’s not law. And what this General Plan
<br />contemplates is the Community Development Plans will be law. And I agree that it should be
<br />because my view is that developers need a clear picture and a clear line on where to go and not to
<br />have these questions that you raise; and it’s a legitimate point.
<br />From the community’s perspective, right, in my view we cannot keep going down this road
<br />saying that, oh, we have a General Plan as long as it fits with that it’s okay. Because we’ll end
<br />up with Kihei Road, no question about it. You know, Manono Street will become that way,
<br />Kekuanaoa Street will become that way. You know, we’ll create a bunch of Kihei Roads in our
<br />town; and my personal view is I don’t want that. And the question is how do you do something
<br />different? And if we look at it from the present view, right, and that is what we got is enough,
<br />and that owners and developers should be able to go forward relying on what we have now, then
<br />we’re going to end up in 10 years like Maui and Kihei, and in 20 or 30 years like Oahu and
<br />Kapolei and the Ewa Plain and all of that. There’s no question in my mind that we’re heading
<br />down that road. So I don’t know, you know, we really as a community need to make it clear that
<br />we don’t want that. I mean if the community, if I’m a lonely voice out here saying, you know,
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