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and they’ve got their house and blah, blah, blah, in to say, well, do you want to be part of this commercial development? But it’s not just commercial. It includes things like some light industrial uses perhaps, maybe like auto repair. It also includes some high density mixed use, residential development, a lot of community facilities whether it be a park, a school, a community building, you know, a gathering place, town square type, smart growth, that’s the whole concept that’s going on there. It’s doing, you would play on the individual lot owners’ economic motivation to participate because their land values would increase. BOWMAN: And this is feasible? BROWN: It has been done before. And we had a consultant come out from Florida who actually presented this whole concept of land pooling and how to create these kinds of developments; and he has done it before. It has been done in Florida. For example, another Sate where we had large scale subdivision of, you know, land out in the middle of nowhere, virtually, that was just creating lots for a commodity to sell and resell, but nobody ever figured they’d live there, but then people started to develop some of these areas. So there’s still more research we need to do and that the community when they come to do their master plan would have to decide on what tools are going to be most effective for the creation of the center, say, in Hawaiian Paradise Park, for example. In Pahoa or in Kea‘au, you wouldn’t necessarily need to use the same techniques at all. Because they really have a commercial center already, you’d just want to create a plan for, so that the development of those areas is done in a systematic planned way rather that haphazard strip mall development all over the place. BOWMAN: Okay, thank you. rd WATANABE: Okay. So building on that then and referring back to 33 Avenue, if they wanted, theoretically based on the logic that you just presented, the values there should increase. And so they should all be jumping to create a Light Industrial area there, right? rd BROWN: I can see the lot owners on 33 might see an increase on their nd property values. The guy on 32 might have just the exact opposite effect. WATANABE: I guess where I’m struggling with that is we have designated certain areas, intersections within Pahoa, Kea‘au, etc., as places that we identified as we would be open to more commercial developments, specific intersections, and that has not occurred. And that’s why we still have the issue of not enough commerce there that you and Ms. Naeole have been complaining about, and I think it’s largely because the land is individually owned. And so everyone wants to exercise their own dream on that particular parcel, and I think that’s where the problem lies, yeah. OLSON: You hit it right on the head. I mean unlike planning in Kona where you are bringing about new subdivisions usually adjacent to other subdivisions, your EXHIBIT B 17