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YUEN: Well, this is actually a good lead into tonight’s discussion because if we want to talk -, I think probably the clearest thing would be to look at, we have our Exhibit 10 on our recommendation; it’s the last thing before the background, that’s a map, that’s from the Community Development Plan’s transportation network map. And if you -, it’s a map with a big circle, it’ll be the last thing in your packet ahead of the yellow recommendation, it’s not in the -, right there, and I see a couple of Commissioners have it. Well, first, there is a land use map for Kona that has an urban area in Kona, and it basically corresponds to the General Plan urban area; so this is still within the future urban development area of Kona as it is in the General Plan. Then on a more specific level, if you look at this map, there is a Transit Oriented -, the one of the concepts in the Plan is a Transit Oriented Development, which would be a master-planned area, which would have sort of a denser area around, at least in the beginning it would be a bus stop, you know, where you would have more of a gathering or congregation area with some commercial. This is on the fringes of that. But if you see where the Kahaluu to Keauhou Parkway is, this is on the makai side of the Kahaluu to Keauhou Parkway; so you can’t really – although if you just draw theses sort of circles, it’s within that Transit Oriented Development – it can’t really be integrated into something on the mauka side of the Parkway. This is really a separate piece of property, once the Parkway comes in. So it has to be considered, as one of the Commissioners mentioned, an infill type of project that’s a project that’s adjacent to an existing development area; it’s adjoined by a zoned area in urban residential zoned area. So it’s like, in planning you call infill that is, you know, the things that got missed when the other areas got zoned. And the Plan does encourage infill areas. It does encourage this sort of -. The PUD that they have proposed is more of a compact, master-planned, clustered type of housing development; and so in all those respects, it is consistent with the concepts in the CDP. RHO: Commissioner Bowman. BOWMAN: It appears to me that if this applicant is given approval, that because they are -, it would kind of fall into play that the upper two parcels would be developed because that’s where their affordable housing and their park is going to be. I mean, it just seems logical, right? YUEN: Well, it’s a separate decision that has to be made on its own merits. Again that is an area that is urban in the General Plan and it’s an urban area in the CDP, and it is adjacent to an existing subdivision; so it’s likely to have a favorable recommendation from the Planning Department. I would mention that although they plan to do their affordable housing there, if they come in for their approval on the makai piece first, they have to have -, if they are going to build their affordable housing on another piece of property, there has to be some security that that actually happens. And that’s been done in the past either by pledge of land or some other kind of security, or there are other options they don’t have to do their affordable housing in the mauka property. So they’ll have to take care of that; if the makai property gets its entitlements first, they’ll have to at least take care of guarantying that the condition would be satisfied when they do the makai development. EXHIBIT A 9