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units, 3) require a shared-use bike and pedestrian paths to civic, education and commercial enterprises in the area and provision for public transportation, 4) require traffic mitigation measures at key area intersections, 5) require an updated TIAR, and 6) require traffic calming features on internal roads and on roads immediately outside the project. (At this time, 3:08 p.m., the Chair granted Joel Gimpel’s request to present testimony on Item No. 7 regarding the Planning Director’s amendment to Chapter 25 (Zoning Code), Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 Edition), as amended, to create a “superstore” zoning district – SEE EXHIBIT C. At 3:10 p.m, the Commission again took up the subject application.) ALAMEDA: All right. Can I ask the applicant to return? Again, Fellow Commissioners, this will be continued to the next hearing, so -. But if you have burning desire to ask the applicant a question or so. Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA: Yes. You heard – and I know you took notes because I was watching – comments by Mr. Ching from the Land Use Commission and by Mr. Gimpel from Kona Traffic Safety. And so I would like to hear if you have any response to any of the points, to any of the points of your choice that they made. DICKLER: I think that, to respond to Mr. Ching’s comments, I think that he is correct that we had started the process to get the remaining parcel, the three parcels that were remaining, into the LUC. Timing was taking much longer than we had anticipated; some was our fault, some was process fault. And in order to help the County and the administration do their request, we went forward with this proposal specifically for the affordable housing. The market-rate housing is going to go, is planned to go through the LUC; we are in process of an EIS for that portion of it. ALAMEDA: Ms. Siracusa? SIRACUSA: Just to clarify, he made a point about whether you had submitted your paperwork to the LUC, and they had already given you a docket number, but hadn’t received the paperwork back. Could you -? DICKLER: That’s correct -. SIRACUSA: Expand on that a little, please? DICKLER: The requirement as I understand it – and I’m not the final, I’m not an attorney, I don’t do this for a living, and I don’t do this everyday – and the process was we needed to get -, we were told we needed an Environmental Assessment at first. And when we prepared that, we were told that wasn’t good; we needed an EIS to be done. When we prepared that, we were told we had to include certain things that weren’t included. And now two years later we still haven’t submitted the EIS, which has to be submitted before we can submit the application to the LUC. And so it’s been -, we have worked diligently for two years, but we have not been able to get the appropriate documents completed to submit. Again, in meetings with the Mayor, the owner of our company’s and with Ed Taira from OHCD, we were asked to try to do something to mitigate the severe problem for affordable rentals. And we came up with EXHIBIT B 8