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FUKE: Yes.
<br /> DEFRANCO: —and do you agree with the recommendations?
<br /> FUKE: Yes, we've reviewed the staff's written background report and the recommendation, and I
<br /> reviewed it also with the applicant, and he is totally receptive and accepts the recommendation.
<br /> We found it to be very comprehensive, and the videos kind of like speak for themselves.
<br /> If I may, Madam Chair, I'd like to kind of like just digress a bit and talk about the whole project.
<br /> DEFRANCO: Thank you.
<br /> FUIKE: But before doing so, I'd like to again offer congratulations to Mr. Vitousek for his
<br /> untiring service for the Planning Commission. And quite honestly, you know, he pointed at me,
<br /> but it's true like he gave me a lot of sleepless nights, you know, before, appearing before
<br /> Commission and even subsequent meetings, but I think that in the end, it forced us to really think
<br /> hard, and so in the end I think a lot of good things came about. So, thank you very much, Mike.
<br /> So, you'll be missed but in a different way.
<br /> DEFRANCO: From the friction comes the pearl, right?
<br /> FUKE: That's true. The other thing I'd like to kind of mention, and this is like full disclosure,
<br /> because when this permit was approved, I was sitting where Director Kern is sitting, you know, I
<br /> was a planning director at that time. So I kind of wanted to give you some background in terms of
<br /> how this thing came about, and such that, you know, I don't look like a hypocrite, you know, one
<br /> time I say this and now I'm saying another thing, but, you know, hopefully, as I go through the
<br /> presentation you'll have an understanding of why,you know, I've kind of like changed my
<br /> position, you know, relative to this application, because otherwise I wouldn't be here because it
<br /> would be too hypocritical. Anyway, like in 1975 the State passed the Coastal Zone Management
<br /> Act, and that was that kind of like emanated from the federal government; the federal government
<br /> said, look, State, if you pass this Coastal Zone Management Act, then we'll give you guys a lot of
<br /> funds to implement and so on and so forth. So, it was kind of like, like an incentive for the state to
<br /> pass the Coastal Zone Management, and so a number of coastal statesAlaska, California,
<br /> Maryland, Florida they all adopted the Coastal Zone Management Program. So, in 1975 the
<br /> State adopted it, and then it in 1976, which is a different matter now, as part of the planning
<br /> program, we developed and then ultimately was accepted by the Commission this Kailua Village
<br /> Design Plan. And in that Kailua Village Design Plan it had earmarked this particular area, not
<br /> necessarily this parcel but portion of this area, to be set aside for so-called public parking use, and
<br /> the reason being like, you know taking you back again into like the early 70's in Kailua that
<br /> area was bustling with a lot of tourists but never had any parking. Since that time the County
<br /> acquired some properties, and then they have a public parking area, you know, in the vicinity of
<br /> Kailua, but anyway, that's the Kailua [Village] Design Plan that was adopted in 1976. So then in
<br /> 1977, pursuant to the State SMA law, there was a requirement that the county must establish
<br /> where these boundaries are going to be, your SMA boundaries, and establish all of those rules, and
<br /> so by June of 1977, the SMA boundaries were adopted. The boundaries, when they were adopted,
<br /> they had said like initially it could be like 500 feet or you could look at major highways, and so
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