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WOODWARD: Mr. Chairman. Yeah, Mr. Yuen is right; we have beaten this horse to death. I mean, it is probably the single most over-talked item on this Commission. And we sent a default negative recommendation when the Director planned to change it from RS-15 to Ag-5, and then the Council trumped that and decided they are going to make it Ag-15. I’ve made my feelings known on this. I really think retrospective downzoning is a problem. And I didn’t like it when they were talking about zoning it to Ag-5, and I really don’t like it when they are talking about, you know, making this 37-acre property only useful for two lots. So I think we’ve got to decide it today, and send it back to Council. You know, it’s in Council’s court; I mean, they can do what they want. But I think we need to make a recommendation today. WATANABE: Okay. Do we have any further comments on this? So we’d like to attempt to do this? So okay, let’s say we are going to attempt to do this. We haven’t had the presentation yet. WOODWARD: Oh, we have somebody to present? WATANABE: Well, we don’t have the -. WOODWARD: We’ve been presented before. WATANABE: We don’t have the property owner here, but maybe we can have Mr. Darrow summarize what is, I think -. WOODWARD: Rehash. WATANABE: Yeah. DARROW: I’ll make this short and sweet. WATANABE: Vividly in our subconscious. WOODWARD: I’ve seen this before. DARROW: Okay. A lot of the same pictures. The next agenda item is a County Council initiated Change of Zone, which is actually an amendment to the Planning Director’s bill that went up to the County Council with an unfavorable recommendation, which was by a no- action vote. The Planning Director’s request was a Change of Zone from RS-15 to RA 5-acre, as the Planning Director has mentioned; the County Council had amended that to from RS-15 to RA 15-acres, and at this time it has come back to the Planning Commission for review. The property is located within North Kohala. This is located just northwest of Kawaihae, more specifically, it’s directly across Kohala Ranch Estates. The property is identified with a black outline. The color of the zoning is darker yellow, which signifies the RS-15 zoning. The colors around the map identify the surrounding zoning; the light green is Agricultural 5 acres, the blue is representing Agricultural 3 acres and the dark green is representing Agricultural 20 acres. County Council is proposing an amendment to the Planning Director initiated bill, Bill 237, EXHIBIT C 3