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different, and where the condition is at in terms of the process. And let me talk about the process just a little bit. The Council-initiated bill has been heard on both sides of the island, was put on the agenda and heard on both sides of the island already. And on the Council-initiated bill, the Commission has a time deadline to make its recommendation to the Council. If the Commission doesnt have five votes, either asa favorable or unfavorable recommendation on that, it still goes up to the Council, but as an unfavorable recommendation. The deadline will be before the next meeting, so this is your last meeting to act on the Council-initiated bill. The Planning Director-initiated bill was available for public comment when the Council-initiated bill was heard in Kona a month and a half ago. In a way it has been, the people have had the opportunity to see it. It was public, people could comment on it. But it actually wasnt put on, we didnt have time to put it on the agenda for that meeting in Kona. So just to be consistent with our practice in the past of having an item that makes an island-wide change heard formally on both sides of the island, were recommending that the Planning Commission defer action on th thePlanningDirector-initiatedbilluntiltheJuly20 meeting. This will result in the two bills coming up to the Council at different times. The Council controls it own schedule. And the Council can decide whether they want to wait and hear both bills at the same time or if they want to take them out of sequence, because theyre coming up outofsequence. But that will be up to the Council. So just to repeat, you know, what the substance of the bill is again, the Council-initiated bill would have a definition for a superstore. It has been crafted so that according to the Council it doesnt apply to more wholesale type outlets like Costco that dont have a very large number of individual types of items for sale, but it would apply to the typical Wal-Mart supercenter. The Planning Director-initiated bill would not ban such stores but it would say that the only place you could put them is in a new type of zoning district, so that you would have to rezone an area to haveasuperstore.Itlimitstheareasthatyoucanhavethatkindofasuperstoretocertain existing zoning districts and areas that are designated for either High Density Urban or for Industrial/Commercial mixed use in the General Plan. And the final thing is if nothing is passed then it would simply be legal to establish a store like this in any Commercial or Industrial/Commercial zoned area. A final thing Id like to say is that there has been a lot of public testimony that is also directed against Big Boxes. None of these bills affect what you would call a typical big box retail outlet like a Home Depot or a Costco. The County of Kauai, Im not sure if they passed it. Well, the last I saw they were on the verge of passing something like this. I did look at this as a possibility, as an alternative; but on an island here where we have two Wal-Marts, two Home Depots, a Costco and a K-Mart, it seems like that it would be definitely a case of locking the barn door after the horse had gone away to institute a ban or other serious control on big boxes in general. So, we also have lots new public testimony on this. And there are lots of people who have signed up, so Ill stop right now and take any questions that the Commissioners may have. WATANABE:Are there any questions for the Director from the Commission? Well, I have a comment, Mr. Yuen. First of all, I want to thank you for the material you sent on the traffic study; and I thought, you know, by having that we could quantify what type of traffic, level of traffic anyway. But now that I have it I dont know what I could do with it aside from saying, yes, supermarkets do generate more traffic. And the reason I brought it up is because initially I thought the definition of superstore was possibly too narrow. But it seems from this 3 EXHIBIT B