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WATANABE: Oh, okay, so the life expectancy of that home is sort of limited yeah, is what you’re trying to get across, I think. UDANI: Yes. If it’s strong enough then, you know -. WATANABE: Yeah, what I’m saying is it had to be torn down because it was getting rotten and unsafe or whatever, that what would go up in its place would be something similar. UDANI: Yeah. I mean I don’t have any plans to make big business. I’m planning to -. WATANABE: Okay. Maybe, okay, I kind of get your feeling. Maybe some of the other Commissioners might want to chime in on this on how they feel about the -. DOMINGO: I’d like to chime in. WATANABE: Yes, Mr. Domingo. DOMINGO: I’ll chime away. You know, I know what Commissioner Siracusa is concerned about and I understand how she feels. But, personally, my personal input into that is that I don’t think that we should restrict anyone who comes for rezoning in that particular area if you want to be specific to restrict them from just using their residences for business purposes and the like. And it’s only because if you look in the general area and further down towards houselots, there are many rezonings coming up and people are rebuilding, you know, and they’re changing the entire outlook of that particular area. And what we’re looking at is if we go up Lanikaula and go up to Kawili we have the University up there. And on the northern side of Lanikaula along Kinoole we’re seeing some, you know, some buildings that have come up that are just perfect, you know, conducive and it just blends into the existing uses as we go up to the University. So I don’t think I can subscribe to any such condition at this time. And I can see where if in like perhaps Naalehu where we have that kind of a condition, because Naalehu at this time is a laid-back beautiful community with, you know, that country type ambience, and if you want to retain those buildings as such, perhaps that would be appropriate, but not with the growing portion of Hilo as it is. Because what we’re looking at is the commercial core, what used to be Downtown Hilo, is slowly going out towards the south. So, I mean, putting restrictions like that and setting a precedent is something that would be tying us down and discouraging developers from going into that direction. WATANABE: Okay, Mr. Woodward. WOODWARD: Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Jeff, could you put up that picture of the area map that has the various zones. If you look at that area, that street, which I guess is Kilauea Avenue coming down, everything up to that point is Commercial. So it’s not like we’re doing something that is vastly different. And I think we need to be a little careful if, either we approve this or we don’t. But I don’t think we want to micromanage, and that is put on so many conditions that you can’t use this for commercial property except if you have your insurance office in this old run-down building. I have no problem, again, because right across the street EXHIBIT A 7