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pretty much have an unobstructed path to getting it done. So I really think that’s how it should
<br />be done. The PUDs and the CPDs are sort of, you know, examples of a process where they can
<br />do it; but it’s not as good because, you know, the developer still has to come out and say this is
<br />conceptually what I want to do, this is how it’s going to be implemented. And until the
<br />Department actually approves it, they really can’t get the financing for it, right, or, you know, be
<br />assured of how it’s going to come down. So I just wanted to, again, make the plug, especially to
<br />this, again, to really look at community development plans as a way, as a possible way, to help
<br />developers get clear entitlement pictures in terms of what can be, where development is going to
<br />occur on this island, how it’s going to get done, and get a really clear picture of what this
<br />community is going to look like. And then, you know, there will be lots of money to do it once
<br />we get that done. Thank you.
<br />ALAMEDA: Thank you. Commissioner Domingo.
<br />DOMINGO: From now, I will refer to Mr. Iwashita as Mr. Development Plan.
<br />IWASHITA: Community Development.
<br />DOMINGO: Okay, Community Development Plan; and I support him 100 percent.
<br />You know why? Because the General Plan is a primary planning document for the County.
<br />Everything is done in behest of the General Plan. The community development plan is a step
<br />lower which grabs the different General Plan designations and come out with a more final, more
<br />finer detail of planning and what can be done. Now when you have a community development
<br />plan, the people in the community would come in and look at certain General Plan designations
<br />and they will decide in a collaborative fashion with everybody what would be best suited in that
<br />particular area, where would growth best be directed, and what kind of growth, and how it
<br />should be directed. That’s one part of the community development plan. Whether one likes it or
<br />not, it can work for or against you. But if you want controlled growth, controlled development,
<br />the community development plan is the best way to do it. And I think I for one would strongly
<br />support community development plans for all the communities on the island. You know, that
<br />way it makes the job easier for administrators, the Planning Commission, and ultimately the
<br />Council. Because what comes up to them is what they actually agreed upon when they review
<br />the General Plan. And that’s it.
<br />ALAMEDA: I must add my two cents in. I would agree with that if the community
<br />development planning process has integrity. Because we know that it takes a real good
<br />facilitator to bring people to the table, everybody from every walk of life, diversity in every way
<br />and to get people to communicate and collaborate on what’s in the best interest for the
<br />community. Because I’ve sat in many meetings as a facilitator and I’ve watched many meetings
<br />in group collaborations, so called, and the voice that gets written on the paper tends to be the
<br />audience or the participants with the loudest voice who can interrupt real quickly who has, you
<br />know, that cultural communication style. And many times it’s not the local people or the Asian
<br />people. So if the community development plan has integrity, all right, if it has integrity and it
<br />includes the voices of the diversity that we have here in the islands, then, yeah, it is a voice and a
<br />representation of the people.But I think we’re real quick to assume that the community
<br />development plan would be the voice of the people. That’s a big assumption, as a facilitator I
<br />can tell you that. That’s my final statement. So you guys don’t have to respond to that.
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