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WILLIAMS: Public testimony to listen to? <br />ALAMEDA: Sure. <br />WILLIAMS: Do I have to sign anything? <br />ALAMEDA: Let me ask, Sharon. <br />NOMURA: You can use the same sign up sheet. <br />ALAMEDA: Okay. Please come forward, Mr. Williams. We already swore you in and <br />got your address. You may proceed. <br />WILLIAMS: Okay, I just wanted to say a few words. And, again, the Hawaii Island <br />Chamber of Commerce supports Planning Director Yuen’s analysis on this proposal by the <br />County Council for many of the same reasons I discussed before. One, that we have a separation <br />of government; and it seems like the County Council wants to be taking over the executive <br />branch as well as being a legislative branch. <br />Two, you know, there are very few cluster plan developments and planned unit developments on <br />this island. It is something that Commissioner Siracusa was talking about a little while ago, was <br />modernizing the Subdivision Code, moving ahead. Well, planned unit developments, cluster <br />plan developments, are one method of doing that. It’s a more advanced type of planning. The <br />problem with having the County Council take over this process is it becomes a political tool. If <br />you don’t have a set of clear of rules as a developer when you go into doing this, you have no <br />idea if this project makes any sense. Can you buy the piece of land and try to move forward to <br />do it? No. You have to go to the County Council. The County Council is totally capricious. It <br />depends on who’s on the Council, it depends upon if the Council likes you. So it should be done <br />administratively; and that is the process the way it’s set up. To change that, to make the Council <br />handle each individual one will not encourage cluster plan developments, will not encourage <br />planned unit developments; and that’s the type of planning we want to see going forward. <br />ALAMEDA: Seeing nobody is grabbing the mike, we have no questions at this time. <br />You may be seated. Thank you, Mr. Williams. All right, can we do a voice motion? <br />DARROW: Yes. Just one brief, I forgot to add that the Deputy Director asked me to <br />make one minor change to Item No. 3 on page 2, this was for the off-street parking background; <br />and I’ll just bring that to your attention before we go into that vote. It’s under, on page 2, hotels <br />and lodges, it says the recommended ratio is 1.25 stalls per guest. We’re going to add in the <br />word “room” right after “guest.”Just a minor change but I wanted to bring that to your attention. <br />Thank you. <br />ALAMEDA: Mr. Kurokawa? <br />KUROKAWA: I have one more correction that I noticed on this last, let’s see, I’ve got to <br />find it. <br /> EXHIBIT C 7 <br /> <br /> <br />