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PISICCHIO: I’d like to say that Tracy is responsible for putting this document in the <br />fitful form that it’s in. It’s a piece of art as far as I’m concerned, the visual document, and Tracy <br />is completely responsible for that and we’re deeply indebted to her for it. <br />WATANABE: Well, since there are no other formal presentation, is there anything else <br />either of you would like to add? Mr. Melrose? <br />MELROSE: I guess what, I understand what Mr. Woodward is after concerning about <br />the regulatory -. I think that the tenor and tone of the Kona Community Development Plan has <br />been drafted around the desired vision for Kona that maintains major portions of its value to <br />open space, both as watersheds and its shorelines, and focuses growth in compact villages that <br />allows more open space to happen rather than conventional types of subdivisions. It’s a different <br />vision. And the methodology that was chosen, again not without discussion, is really more one <br />of carrots rather than just sticks and form-base codes rather than restrictive base codes as our <br />current Zoning Code is. And we think it provides a way to actually have that future happen for <br />Kona in a true vision that’s preferred; and it took a lot of thinking and gnashing of teeth to get it <br />to this stage from a lot of very constructive dialogue from a very broad portion of the <br />community. And we would appreciate your support to adopt it. Thank you. <br />WATANABE: Thank you. Yes, Mr. Iwashita. <br />IWASHITA: You know the Implementing Committee ordinance that’s being considered <br />by the Council, any of you can comment on this, how do you see that as far as, you know, <br />working? Assuming that the Plan passes how is that going to, as a practical matter, work or not <br />work? <br />MELROSE: The way it’s structured here is consistent with the ordinance that’s <br />currently being considered by the Council. We had a structure that had begun before Chair <br />Hoffman started to put together his vision of how that was going to work. We had the <br />opportunity to integrate that into this plan. They read almost identical. And the Implementing <br />Committee, you know, we wanted to, quite honestly Kona wanted as much autonomy as Kona <br />could get, right? They wanted their own Planning Commission. And they wanted this <br />committee to be a Planning Commission for land use regulatory consideration; and Chris and <br />Nancy and others were very instrumental in helping us, and Councilman Pilago’s office as well. <br />You know, they had it going in parallel at the same time, this is Windward and Leeward <br />Planning Commission Charter Amendment. So rather than get in the way or having to wait <br />behind since that one couldn’t be amended to create, we felt that following the program of an <br />Implementation Committee that really was focused on the Plan itself and the actions and trying <br />to keep those things moving forward rather than having to get sucked into the day to day as, I <br />mean, -. I’m not at all dissing what you do at all -. But it’s a difficult time consuming kind of <br />situation, and that takes away, you deal with applications that come to you one at a time. This <br />was really intended to have a committee that deals with it through the Design Center and created <br />in the Planning Department, sort of another improvement level over plan approval for projects <br />that would really try to keep the whole vision in its perspective, rather than having to get sucked <br />into it. <br /> EXHIBIT C <br />11 <br /> <br />