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delayed, you know, they were projected to be completed already have not taken place. If those
<br />improvements move ahead, potentially you may actually see your rural road return to its original
<br />state.
<br />MURATA: It is a very important transportation facility; and all the land use actions of
<br />zoning, rezoning, re-re-rezoning and what not, has an impact to it. Then sometime I think we get
<br />caught up in all this rapid growth, and some necessary things are ignored. So you know, I just
<br />want to give this thing a little essence of importance, so that when you open the document years
<br />from now, you say, oh, yeah, yeah, Mamalahoa is in there, so you know. That’s all.
<br />WATANABE: Okay, thank you.
<br />ALAMEDA: Mr. Chairman.
<br />WATANABE: Yes.
<br />ALAMEDA: Thank you, Mr. Murata. So just in a nutshell, you just want to make sure
<br />that the road that you are talking about, even if it might return to a rural road, but just that we pay
<br />attention to that road and we make sure that we have funds to maintain the essence of what the
<br />road used to be or to make sure it’s safe. Is that pretty much what you are saying?
<br />MURATA: Yeah, yeah, you know, that it doesn’t fall by the wayside.
<br />ALAMEDA: Okay.
<br />WATANABE: Okay. Thank you, Mr. Murata. Mr. Domingo.
<br />DOMINGO: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Murata, for your input to the
<br />Plan. You know, as I looked through the Kona Development Plan and the Puna Development
<br />Plan, and of course many other plans that I’ve gone through during my time, I tell myself – I talk
<br />to myself and that’s what happens when you become a commissioner; you talk to yourself
<br />sometimes – you know, Mr. Murata, if I am looking for a perfect plan, again, I tell myself, you’ll
<br />never find it because there is no such a thing as a perfect plan. But what any plan, in fact, most
<br />of the plans that I’ve come across, it provides for procedures and venues and whatever way you
<br />want to make an amendment to the plan; it’s there and you can do it at an opportune time, you
<br />know, at the right time. When you bring it up at the right time, you’ll find that you have more
<br />attention, focus on that issue to which you concern. And what I’m saying is that even though it’s
<br />not written in here, in the future as you visualize and you observe things happening, and then you
<br />come to a conclusion at that time, this is when I should mention it to the powers that be, so that
<br />they can address it right away. You know, if you put it in the Plan, it might be forgotten or it
<br />might be overlooked because of the nature of it or probably it’s not as important as others may
<br />see it. So don’t feel bad about it not being here; but like anything else, it’s a flexible plan and it
<br />can be amended. Thank you very much.
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