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IWASHITA:Thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess, to me, what would be important is how the funds are used. If the funds are paid and used to provide affordable housing at the time, then it’s gone. The reason for the payment is an in-lieu of actually providing the affordable housing; and even if the project doesn’t go forward if the way the monies are actually used, you know, is that in fact when it’s paid it’s put into a fund which helps the County provide affordable housing, then it’s done. I don’t see an argument that there should be an interest kind of benefit just because the project doesn’t go forward. Maybe I don’t understand how it works. But if in fact the money is used, then it’s gone. WATANABE:Okay. These might be discussion items though, so maybe we should contain the current discussion to any questions for the applicant. Are there any question for the applicant? IWASHITA:Just a clarification on procedure. I guess the Director is wanting to review the resolution. What is it going to take for that to happen? We’re going to do that today or at some other time? He wants to review the resolution -. LIM:Well, for purposes of moving the project forward, we’re willing to live with the Director’s proposed conditions; and then we would then negotiate that with him at a later date on the credits and how we would address that. WATANABE:Is that acceptable to everyone? Any objections? YUEN:I have a couple of questions and a comment on a couple of other things on the applicant’s proposed conditions that they submitted today. One being this E, where instead of saying the applicant shall realign and provide ½, instead of saying as our condition did, that the applicant shall realign and provide collector street improvements to the entire project frontage along Hualalai Road, you propose inserting the term “½.” So the applicant shall realign and provide ½ of the collector street improvements to the entire project frontage along Hualalai Road. Now unfortunately we just got this a couple of days ago and sent it to Department of Public Works. We didn’t get a comment back from Department of -? HAYASHI:Ki is on vacation so no response was received. YUEN:All right. In your mind physically, on the ground, what would the difference be between what Public Works had and what you have? LIM:Maybe the concept is that, we understand the policy of the County on these rezonings, is that you would require the developer on our side of the street to take responsibility for developing Hualalai Road on our side, the 50 percent on our side; and the property owner on the other side of Hualalaui Road would develop the 50 percent on their side. I don’t know if that’s the best way to say it, but that’s the idea that we’re trying to convey. We did not want to be responsible for doing the entire Hualalai Road frontage for both properties. YUEN:Well, I don’t know, certainly sitting here I’m not going to recommend agreeing to that; and I don’t know if I would accept that as an over-all policy statement. You know, I don’t know who is on the other, what’s on the other side of the street? And do we have the zoning on that? EXHIBIT B 9