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only today, yeah. And Im sure if the Director has a change of heart then he wants to
<br />make sure that he has covered all the conditions. And I dont know, maybe we have to
<br />take a field trip there to really get a sense of the safety. I dont know.
<br />ALAMEDA:Commissioner Watanabe, it sounds like your question is on maybe
<br />possible protocol for the Commission and the different avenues we could take. Id like to
<br />turn it over to Mr., our counsel, just as a brief, if you could answer that.
<br />TORIGOE:Well, its certainly your option. If you feel like you want to
<br />continue it and ask the parties and the Planning Department to discuss certain issues you
<br />could do that as long as the applicant agrees, you know, to try and do that, put things off.
<br />RODRIGUES:As my client considers that situation, may I make a remark?
<br />ALAMEDA:Goahead.
<br />RODRIGUES:AfterdueconsiderationofthesafetyissueofMamalahoa
<br />Highway, Highway 19, being uninitiated in zoning law but being somewhat initiated by
<br />my friends in Waimea on ranching operations and farming and industry, I think you will
<br />come full circle. Full circle meaning you start with the pinhead, the access road on
<br />Mamalahoa Highway, and you go around and around and around in concentric circles
<br />until you get to the General Plan where I was at midnight last night. And you look at this
<br />General Plan, and the version I was looking at is February 2, 2005, the on-line version,
<br />and you see if you read the papers and the General Plan together, weve got a massive
<br />transportation problem. Where do you begin to fix it? All right, continuing the circle,
<br />Im back to Waimea again. And I read the General Plan pertaining to South Kohala,
<br />Waimea, and what I see is what I read in the paper, we are studying that thing to death.
<br />Why? Because its complex.
<br />When we say West Hawaii, when we compare Miranda Trucking with West Hawaii
<br />Concrete, and the lack of a channelization or a pocket lane or this and that, and we talk
<br />about Parker Ranch not having to apply for a special permit and all these things, it really
<br />looks like the target, the silver bullet is right at Miranda Trucking. And when you sit
<br />there at 1 oclock in the morning and you see I cant fix this, I dont know if the Planning
<br />Director can fix this, I dont know if the Governor can fix this, but Ill tell you what,
<br />dont hang the $600,000 bill on Miranda Trucking to widen the road when, if you ever
<br />have a chance to read our brief, you will see that the Directors position is his goal is, the
<br />Planning Commission, I mean the Planning Department Director, his goal is to encourage
<br />the State to do its thing with the State Highways. How much more can the County do
<br />than beg. And in legal language and in civil language thats what our General Plan does,
<br />it begs the State to come to the Big Island and not only fix Waimea but everything else.
<br />So my plea is if my client agrees to a continuance to study this matter youre going to do
<br />the circle trip that I took and come right back and say, all right, we either hang it on
<br />Mr. Miranda and not on Parker Ranch and not on the other developers in the area, and not
<br />on West Hawaii Concrete, were going to hang it on Mr. Miranda, or were going to say
<br />cant get around my arms this rascal, its too big. Thats why I come right back to slow
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