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SIRACUSA:I have some concerns that when you, when you have industrial generally you have big steel buildings and theyre ugly. And they dont, they have, theres a lot of cement and they dont usually do much in the way of landscaping and I think that that is incompatible with open space and park areas. And I dont know how we can get around this. We just adopted this General Plan but of course that doesnt mean we all like every bit of it does it? GRAHAM:I certainly from what Ive heard so far feel like I could not support this rezoning. One thing that caught my eye when I was reading the material last night was kind of right at the beginning of the application made by the Planning, made to the Planning Department which is only like 3 or 4 pages into our background. Question number 4 says if youve performed any study which would demonstrate a need for the proposed building and please elaborate on your findings. And the last sentence in the response sort of says to take advantage of the propertys proximity to the ocean and spectacular views of the South Kohala coastline. Andthatswhenreferencedforusingitasaleaseoutforarestaurant.Sotomeitfeelslikewell, we got spectacular views, which the public kind of likes. Weve got proximity to the ocean and what were going to do is were going to lease that out to somebody to have a restaurant so that when people pay to eat there they get those but its going to cut away those views from the rest of the public. And the benefits going to be added revenue to the State. And it just feels to me that the views and the open space are much more important to the public in general at this point in time than you know that some extra revenue will come from leasing out a restaurant site. I also when the Director was mentioning the conjunction of the set aside of the 4-acres along with this rezoning request, it sort of tickles my ear a little bit. I dont know what Manny Veincents reasons were for supporting this project but I sort of feel like well maybe he was in a little situation where he felt like we could get our particular piece of ground where were using our canoe club kind of guaranteed by going along with this rezoning. And, I dont know when you look at the, where the road goes up there, this is the land is all up. The canoe club is right down, right close to sea level. It feels to me that theyre looking at a situation that theyre going to have some kind of development looking right over them. I dont know I feel like I could support this is in fact you did have a public meeting down there and the different stake holders like the boating group and the surfing group and the canoe group all knew what was coming forth and they said that was okay with them then I would surely go along with it. But failing that I cant see supporting it. GALDONES:Commissioner McCall? MCCALL:Yeah, has there been any, I just I dont know particularly in the Kawaihae area is there a shortage of industrial-commercial zoned property or is there stuff waiting to be leased? Is the State, is all the State properties leased in the Kawaihae, in the harbor area? NISHIMURA:The State property is limited primarily to the harbor, harbor-related area. There are vacant industrial zoned lands owned by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands not by the State of Hawai i. And my understanding is part of the development constraint on some of the DHHL lands is the lack of adequate water for those parcels. GALDONES:Commissioner Watanabe? EXHIBIT B 11