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MELROSE: I think, quite honestly, this is a County plan, and we felt a bit presumptuous about directing the State. And we were trying to focus on what we could actually accomplish. And the university is clearly identified, one, it has an existing piece of property and a new community is directed to, and already zoned to evolve around it; so as that resource can develop, the community, I think, will continue to support as much education as the university system can bring to Kona. So I don’t think we would object to it; we just felt that it might be presumptuous to be much more detailed about it. RHO: Basically, because, well, my thinking is that if you have it in the Plan, then it just puts additional – what’s the word – pressure. The other thing that I didn’t -, well, it’s not like I read this cover to cover and I can actually say I’m an expert in the Plan; you folks are the experts in the Plan. But when, well, and during that presentation in one of the slides it talked about an X number of miles of reserved land – but that’s not the right word I’m using – it’s off the shoreline. MELROSE: Protected shoreline. RHO: Protected shoreline. So can you elaborate on that a little bit more? MELROSE: The protected shoreline would run, I mean, the waters along the North and South Kona coast are Class AA pristine waters.And so, to reinforce public access, public use and protection of those waters from the Old Airport Park to Kukio, the vast majority of that land is public land; there are a couple of private holdings along there with lots of public use on them already that those would be protected lands. And as a goal, from all of the Mid-Level Road and the communities that would evolve in the urban district, they would be looking down on the protected shoreline. And that was the goal that was brought forward by the public. RHO: And in your presentation you also, or one of you, mentioned connecting up to the sewage system, but not if you are an X number of feet from the shoreline. MELROSE: We are trying to require within a mile; so that you would be reinforcing the requirement to connect within a mile of the shoreline to improve near shore water quality. RHO: So like the university issue, would the Committee be opposed to extending that to further than a mile or -, you know what I mean, as a goal for sewage connection throughout Kona, for example? I guess what I’m looking at is the Plan in my view “limits” it to a mile, but we have trouble more than a mile away, right? I mean, it’s all going into the ground. Well, cesspools for instance, my cesspool is, I’m positive, more than a mile away, and I’m sure eventually it’s going to affect the groundwater; but that’s just my assumption. So I mean, just your thoughts? E. MATSUKAWA: Right now the Department of Health requires standards for the use of -, where cesspools can continue to be allowed or where they are going to require septic systems. You know, for the County to get involved, the policy says just for near shore water protection, not so much groundwater per se, because there is a lot of groundwater that goes under the ocean EXHIBIT B 13