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IWASHITA: Mr. Chair?
<br />ALAMEDA: You know what I’m saying?
<br />IWASHITA: I know I don’t have to. But the Chair is correct, the integrity of the
<br />process will be integral to whether we succeed in doing something different and that will really
<br />help the community. I just want to point out that, you know, the Downtown Hilo, I never can
<br />remember, the name of their plan is too complicated. But, you know, the effort what they’re
<br />doing or what they’re trying to implement, that whole process, no one has really challenged, you
<br />know, how it was done. I think that’s a good example of how, you know, it can be done. And
<br />that was done for Downtown Hilo, right? So I think that that process should, you know, be
<br />applied from Downtown Hilo up through house lots, you know, and do another one, The
<br />Kanoelehua Industrial area can do one.
<br />You know, and just as an aside, my wife is a principal and, you know, as a community one of the
<br />things, education is not monetarily in our kuleana. But as far as our economic future is
<br />concerned having the best schools on this island, is, has to be at the top of our list. And if we can
<br />do community development planning right, we really should be planning for smaller schools.
<br />The default in DOE is for bigger schools. They shut down the smaller ones, right? And, you
<br />know, as a community if we all get together and we say, you know what, we really want smaller
<br />schools, smaller class sizes, we’re going to set up the residential developments around these
<br />schools so the kids can walk to the schools and not have to be bussed for miles and walk for
<br />miles, that, you know, those are the kinds of things that can be done, that are possible. And the
<br />Chair is right, it needs to be done in a very -.
<br />ALAMEDA: Pono.
<br />IWASHITA: Pono, very good, pono way; and then if it’s done that way the community
<br />will see that it’s being that way and will come out. And we can have excellent, you know,
<br />community development plans for all the areas of our island. So thank you for those concerns,
<br />and I really hope that all of us in this room continue to talk about it and get the message to the
<br />Council and the administration to get on it.
<br />ALAMEDA: Thank you, Commissioner Iwashita. Commissioner Domingo?
<br />DOMINGO: Yeah, Mr. Chairman, you remember I said it depends on what way it goes
<br />and who really wants the development plan within a district. It can go one way or the other.
<br />You may have a group that would be certainly anti everything and you have nothing for the
<br />community; and that’s a scary part of it. So, you know, be aware of what you ask for. And I
<br />think this would have to be done in a deliberate fashion, make sure things are done right if we’re
<br />going to have to do it. And at the end, at the end, a development plan should be adopted by
<br />ordinance so that it has the cause and effect of law, rather than just a suggestive kind of plan
<br />which would not be much because it’ll just be put aside.
<br />ALAMEDA: All right, every good. Well, I liked the discussion. I think we are ready to
<br />make a motion to continue this to our Kona meeting. You have testimony?
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