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NISHIMURA:Thats correct. IWASHITA:What? My simple view of this is that if youre surrounding this area, this 1-acre with 4-acres of basically a park it doesnt, an industrial use in my mind doesnt really seem appropriate. And so Im thinking more along the lines of a commercial or commercial village kind of zoning change that would have you know. You can have restaurants and shops and more uses that are more in my mind related to that kind of a park recreational are. Cause thats all youre going to have in that area right? NISHIMURA:Well, the uses that you just eluded to are allowed in the MCX zone. IWASHITA:What Im concerned about is allowing also industrial use and which I dont think is you know. Off hand I dont think its really compatible with the park use. CHUN:You know I think youre right and actually the site itself you know the topographyandthelocationorwhathaveyou.Youknowasapracticalmattertheinquiries weve gotten have been from commercial people but I dont it even extends to the as far as I know of a strip mall type of thing. Its more of a stand-alone type of stuff. So I think you know while it may have a whole list in Exhibit A of a bunch of stuff and then industrial as a practical matter we have not fielded inquiries for a lot of this type of use or any actually. IWASHITA:So my, I guess my suggestion or my thought is that it would be more appropriate to be like CV, Commercial Village kind of zoning. And that would incorporate pretty much the types of uses that you know all of these shops or restaurants or you can make a little. Things like that where itd be you know, we all think would be compatible and not have the possibility of an industrial use if somebody came along and said oh this is industrial I want to make a base yard for my business. YUEN:If I could comment on that. What makes this difficult is that there are only, there are only so many cubbyholes in the zoning code and the General Plan. Because this would be industrial in the General Plan we, the Department would not support a CV zoning which would be. We would look at the CV zoning as going into medium density areas in the General Plan or urban expansion areas. So really to do a commercial, their option is the MCX zone. And as far as what is this in the General Plan, the Kawaihae area by the harbor is, there are 2 designations in the General Plan. Theres a band of open along the shoreline like there is all around the island. And then theres ending in Kawaihae, then theres industrial behind that band. The band has a width but its always been the interpretation that the width is not something you nd can scale off. In other words you cant say well its a 32 of an inch wide and that translates to 300-feet in the General Plan. So, the site itself would be compatible with being called either openorindustrialintheGeneralPlanbutnothingelse,therearenootherpossibilities.Theone thing that we have, we have had rezonings where we have excluded some uses as being incompatible.That,wehavedonethatinthepast.Itsnotthekindofthingyounormallywant to do but we have done it. GALDONES:Commissioner Graham? EXHIBIT B 10