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RHO: The Planning Commission is now back to order. We are supposed to have Jim Greenwell, Janice Palma-Glennie, Bill Brooks, Stephanie Nelson-Brooks and Kale Gumapac up at the table. I’m not sure if you are in order. You are in order? So you are Jim? Okay, so we’ll follow the same pattern; so you’ll state your name and your address, and then proceed into your testimony. And if you will limit your testimony to three minute, we should be out of here by 12:00. Okay? Thank you. GREENWELL: Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’m Jim Greenwell, P. O. Box 4220 Kailua-Kona. I just wanted to speak for my three minutes in support of the Plan. Like others, I do want to take time to thank and commend Roy and Nancy for their leadership in putting this Plan together, for Earl and his consultant team, Ken and Chrys and the entire Steering Committee; they had a really, really tough assignment. And good job. I’m hopeful the Community Development Plan becomes the unifying force that we really need in the community where most of us can get behind the vision and help make it happen. Because too often we’re fractured and that really hurts us; so hopefully, this kind of becomes the common vision. I am concerned about a couple of things. Steve Lim, I think, alluded to one of them. And that is when a document that is this complex with this many demographics becomes the law, I just hope that it is clear; when you look at the maps and you read the language, that it is to be applied with reason to the site, and that some of these plans such as those that show TODs and TNDs that have these very symmetric circles, if those are conceptual, that they be noted as being conceptual. Because I do think particularly in the middle of corridor where – and I own Lanihau properties, or we have some property and are very much affected by this – there is a need to apply the concept to how it fits on the land. I’d also just note that while I share the concern of many others in the Plan that urban sprawl is problematic, that the urban core is okay, and that’s what we’re going to end up with is really what we are really dealing with. I do have some concerns. We have had a few properties in Kailua Village for years that you might say Green space. I have a problem with green space in dry Kailua – it’s either really green and fluffy and hides, you know, transients and so forth, or it’s a fire hazard. I do think -, I understand the notion behind open space, but I think we have to be careful where we’re trying to cram that into areas that we know also are going to be expensive to develop; the land is going to have to be utilized fairly effectively because there is a lot of cost bringing in infrastructure and providing the purposes which are required. So just a word of caution. I want to acknowledge and express appreciation for the recognition that was given to the mauka lands and ecosystem service value of those lands, and how that was addressed in the Plan. So I’ll just close and say I am definitely supportive; I appreciate the process. I do hope, though, as good ideas surface through the Planning Commission review and the Council’s review, there is an opportunity to make some minor amendments, and it is considered as a draft but we do pass this Plan and learn to live with it and tweak it where we have to later. Thank you. RHO: Thank you. Questions? Yeah, Director. EXHIBIT B 23