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pending GP amendment. And after some discussion, we were advised by Corp. Counsel that it
<br />would be better not to take final action, after it went through the Planning Commission, the
<br />advice was it would be better not to take, to act on, for the Council to act on the General Plan
<br />Amendment before the rezoning. And I have to say though that we do not have a pending
<br />General Plan amendment in this location.
<br />ALAMEDA:I wanted to see if we could move into discussion by allowing the applicant
<br />to sit down. But first I wanted to make sure we don’t have any more questions for the applicant
<br />before we start moving into discussion. Seeing no further questions, you may be seated.
<br />TAMIMI:Thank you.
<br />ALAMEDA:Commissioner Iwashita, I know you’re thinking, and you were going to
<br />say?
<br />IWASHITA:Again, the implementing part of the General Plan makes it clear that
<br />Community Development Plans are to be done in order to implement the provisions of the
<br />General Plan. And we only have old community development plans, old ones which get
<br />discredited all the time because they’re old and they differ from the existing. There’s conflict
<br />between the General Plan and the old development plans. And the old development plans are
<br />resolutions, they’re not binding law and all of that. But, again, because, as the Director said, our
<br />decisions should follow, you know, it really should be long-range decisions and shouldn’t be
<br />these, you know, these people are entitled to do what they want to do now kind of perspective.
<br />Again, the Community Development Plan as by law required to implement the general
<br />designations of the General Plan, in my mind, reinforces the need to get those done and not do
<br />these piece-meal. Because in the end, in going through the Community Development Plan
<br />process, if the net result is well some things really need to be changed and we should have
<br />General Plan Amendments in order to make things fit the way we want it to fit -- you know, like
<br />in this case where on the record we have an owner saying I’d rather have CN and the applicant is
<br />saying, well, I’ll consider that; but because of the GP designation we can’t even consider it
<br />today, not allowed. Right? And that’s understood, and that’s the law, and that’s how it has to be
<br />-- to me those circumstances really focus on the need to get the community development plan
<br />done. Because, otherwise, I don’t think there’s any dispute that just relying on the General Plan
<br />designations is not going to get us anything different from what Oahu has, from what Maui has;
<br />and we’re going on the same road to this broad, you know, sprawling kind of development that’s
<br />going to basically take away our lands as we know them today, you know, turn a lot of them into
<br />strip malls and most of them into subdivisions and create, you know, just augment the kind of
<br />traffic problems that we’re experiencing already today in certain parts of the island. And, you
<br />know, I guess my sense is that these kinds of concerns somehow get lost in trying to address
<br />these specific applications. But I hope that we come to realize more and more that this is what’s
<br />happening and we really as a, hopefully as a body, you know, can try and do something to get the
<br />community development plans going, because that’s the only thing different that we have from
<br />Oahu and Maui.
<br />ALAMEDA:Thank you, Commissioner Iwashita. Point of clarification for the
<br />Director. So just for my own understanding, so we have the General Plan that in this particular
<br />case Industrial can take three different shapes, and what is being proposed is another shape that’s
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