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feet. But somehow I think the word “minimal” sticks out, and I don’t know exactly how you might reword that to make it possibly clearer that it is discretionary. You do use the words “discretionary land use approvals such as SMA,” and it doesn’t seem to imply that you’re, you know, talking about a statutory change where you’re saying anything over a 1000-foot depth has to have a minimum of a 1000-foot setback as an open area. But again, I think people skim a lot and when they read the word “minimum” it kind of makes you feel as though it’s mandatory. It’s not changing the flavor of what you’re trying to present here.But maybe to make it clearer. Mr. Melrose? WOODWARD: Mr. Chair? WATANABE: Mr. Melrose or -. MELROSE: You go ahead. WOODWARD: Yeah, I would just like to ask would you have a problem with changing it so that any lot that’s deeper than 1500 feet has a 1000-foot setback? MELROSE: Well, let me just start with this: This paragraph was the first vote of the Steering Committee and it didn’t start in this form. As a matter of fact, I hope you don’t spend as many meetings on it as we did in the Steering Committee. It took a while to get it wordsmithed to the point that it was comfortable enough. The Steering Committee was a pretty broadly representative group of the community in Kona, with plenty of business interest and landowner representation, as well as plenty of environmental representation, and public service entity representation. So we spent a lot of time chewing on this, and this little wording really came out from the Planning Director. And what sold us really and allowed it to go was the representation, the demonstration to us how really few parcels of land this applies to. I believe there are two in North Kona and there are three or four in South Kona that are deep enough for this to apply to. And one of the two in North Kona is Makalawena and the other is QLT’s land at Makalapua. So their current plans don’t have any closer than 800 in there. So the concepts of density transfer and other mechanisms made this a more palatable situation. The other thing I would say is there are members of the Steering Committee who felt quite strongly that this was a major give, a concession, because there was a strong portion of the public during the small group and other meetings that wanted Queen Kaahumanu Highway to be the building line. WATANABE: Yeah, I would guess that. MELROSE: And that was a challenge to get over. So this had, I mean, you’re the decision-making body at this juncture. If that’s what you wish to do then so be it. But we felt that this had enough flexibility in its drafting to be interpretable and actionable for Kona. Cause really what’s happening, if you look at this, the Community Development Plan is focusing not on the additional growth but the projected growth into the North Kona area and the priority is to maintain the vista of the shoreline and the pristine nearshore waters. These are really some of the very first actions that were taken; and increasing the setback is an important component. Many of us were concerned that this as going to affect kuleana properties, or existing parcels along Alii Drive or in Keauhou, or those kinds of situations. But really it applies only to a EXHIBIT C 6