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discussion at the Kona meeting was about access to roads or the need to create new roads for a subdivision of land that had not been subdivided. In Puna we have these 55,000 lots, half of which are small lot subdivisions, one acre or less; and they exist and they made no accommodations for services. Hawaiian Paradise Park some day 27,000, 30,000 people are going to live on those almost 9,000 lots at least; and there’s not a place for a gas station, a supermarket, an auto repair store, a hardware store, nothing. There was no planning that went into this at all. And now we’re having to fix it and the process creates winners and losers, which is always a bad thing. WATANABE: Okay, thank you. Do we have any further questions for the -? BOWMAN: I just -. WATANABE: Yes. BOWMAN: I just have a comment. You said no planning at all. But, again, going back to some of these community associations that put a lot of time and energy into planning, I think that they address some of the issues, not all. But -. OLSON: I mean, again, and that takes us back to this business of whether this should be done by resolution or by ordinance. The Paradise Park Plan was adopted by resolution, well, the revision was not. But, I mean, the original plan was adopted by resolution. But, I mean, how much consideration has any of the previous planning commissions given to that in handing out these special permits? Because it didn’t carry the force of law and it was substantially ignored by previous Planning Commissions and previous Administrations. So, yeah, they made the effort but the effort was ignored. And the same thing will happen if we don’t get a document that is adopted by ordinance. WATANABE: Mr. Domingo. DOMINGO: You know with respect to that Light Industrial use, and we’re looking at the Hawaiian Paradise Park Owners Association, I don’t think their plan was totally ignored. With respect to that special permit, Jon, you noticed that there is a cluster of special permits in one particular area, and that only happened because of the plan that Hawaiian Paradise Park Owners Association came up with. So, you know, it’s something that has some impact upon the decision that the Commission had made. OLSON: But we also have a larger number of special permits scattered throughout Puna and all of the subdivisions for all kinds of activities which creates a helter-skelter, no planned whatsoever, way of spot zoning the particular uses, you know. The special permit restricts it to that one activity, and it’s not a very good way to have a community grow and try to develop. DOMINGO: But you agree that because of that plan there has not been a helter- skelter of special permits being awarded to individuals around and throughout the EXHIBIT B 18