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BROWN: Correct. WATANABE: To do the presenting? BROWN: Well, there won’t be any formal presentation from the Department or the Steering Committee at this hearing. We’re here to answer any questions by the Commissioners or provide any clarification that we can on what the plan does or does not say. So we want to make all the time available for the public that want to provide testimony to do so, and for the Commissioners to go ahead and go into their deliberations. WATANABE: Okay, thank you. So since there’s no formal presentation, do the Commissioners have anything they’d like to clear up with Mr. Brown or Mr. Olson? Yes, Mr. Alameda. ALAMEDA: I guess I might as well get started. I was a little bit, I just found it interesting, you know, when we had the Chairperson come up from the Committee and then we had the question on the Paradise Park, you know, and kind of your guys’ thoughts on that. And I was just, you know, I was a little bit disappointed that somehow the whole Community Development Plan didn’t consider that area as Light Industrial. I mean we just never had an answer. And kind of like, like all the work that was being done, has been done previously, you know, like say, again, Hawaiian Paradise Park they came up with a plan; they said that, hey, that area could be Light Industrial -. And so I thought guarantee you guys would say, oh, yeah, you know, we endorse that plan that must have taken a lot of time, and so if they said that’s what they like, that’s good with us. But you guys never really took a position on that. So now I’m little bit concerned that, well, what about all the other plans. You know, you guys, I mean that’s hard work went into those little plans. So you guys considering them, or you’re not considering them, or what’s up? BROWN: Actually it was considered by the Planning Consultant, John Whalen with PlanPacific, as were all of the other subdivisions’ plans, like the Volcano 2020 Plan. And, I did consult with John on this after, especially in light of the special permit coming up, and he did reaffirm or reconfirm with me that he did consider the Hawaiian Paradise Park Master Plan as it had been revised in 2005, and he concluded that Light Industrial uses in that area would not necessarily be very compatible with the existing and future residential development that’s going on there - and that some Light Industrial Uses would be consistent or compatible with the Village Center Concept, but not all of the ones that are listed in the list of permitted uses in the Zoning Code for the Light Industrial Zoning designation. So, and it would really be up to the master planning effort for a particular, especially the regional town centers - the three big ones, for those communities to decide which of the Light Industrial uses would be compatible with their village center - and that the general, or the Light Industrial uses under the Zoning Code would be more suitable for Kea‘au in the Light Industrial or General Industrial zoning designations that are already in existence there or may be rezoned that way, as well as in EXHIBIT B 10