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and some mechanisms, so that the landowners are not penalized with the setback but are provided with the opportunity to cooperate with this vision as well. Housing is a critical concern in Kona, and the goal is to diversify the choices. Our policy highlights are really supply and demand driven; we believe that more units are necessary to increase affordability, that affordability is a core component in the approval of a Transit Oriented Development community master plan, and that the affordable inventory would be maintained – create capacity for buying and renting. Recent efforts for affordable housing projects in Kona have come up against really an ownership qualification difficulty, and there needs to be an educational process to do that. And also to address special needs, we would establish a Kona Housing Non-Profit and Trust Fund; this non-profit, one of its major roles would be related to the educational component, but also using as the focus for in-lieu fees, transfer fees, etc. for it to activate additional housing projects. Public Facilities – very strong, important component of the Plan; and there would be a desire to have them sustainably built and maintained. They create a sense of community, and certainly recreational ones add to our quality of life. The issue here really for Kona is that these be developed in concurrent with new development. Public facilities, plans, policy highlights include law enforcement level of service, including the creation of the new South Kona Police Station at the recently acquired site in Captain Cook; fire protection level of service supporting the Makalei Fire Station in North Kona which has long been awaited, expansion of Captain Cook and establishment of a new one farther south that would serve the communities of Kealea and Hookena; the highway safety level of service and concurrencing connectivity standards of the transportation section are important; water and sewer priorities would be focused toward the Transit Oriented Development communities, so that they would have some incentives to evolve; wastewater treatment would be encouraged or would be required within a mile of the shoreline, and an effluent reuse zone has been established along the Mid-Level corridor; increased public facilities are included as well. And these are all in the official public facilities maps that have their individual layers; there are several more in the Plan as well. Energy is a focal point. Obviously, it got a lot more important as the Plan evolved, given our current energy situation. But Kona has an opportunity for sustainability in energy and using the focus around the Natural Energy Lab, building energy efficiency into the building codes of the TODs, and having the County lead by example in its projects like the Civic Center. Economic development goals focus on diversity to increase employment opportunities, with strategic public facilities including the Civic Center, University of West Hawaii and the pursuit of North Kona Hospital; strengthen and encourage our agricultural endeavors looking for agricultural water rates and allocation out of the County system; and redevelopment focused around Kailua Town and the rural towns. And so that this wouldn’t just sit on the shelf, the next is an action plan. I’m going to turn this over to Earl who is the consultant who has ably done a wonderful job in supporting us in developing this. Thank you. EXHIBIT B 6