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attachments to this handout that I gave is really about the precautionary principle and the Hawaii
<br />Supreme Court decision in 2006, basically saying it’s not just the State that has a stewardship
<br />role, it’s also the Counties, it’s each political subdivision, and stressing that role and the role of
<br />the Hawaiian and the historic places, and trying to figure, getting people to work together,
<br />getting the Mike Luces and the Parker Ranches and the landowners to work with the community,
<br />and how do we carve out these paths – whether it’s a trail or it’s a way of thinking.
<br />I did want to address a couple of questions that were brought up by, I think, Mr. Woodward.
<br />And I just wanted to add my comments to those. One is just in terms of the form of our CDP and
<br />the four individual communities. I do think it started out a little bit of “we are different” in that
<br />sort of section, but I really found, as we moved through, we moved to the district visions. And if
<br />you really look at the key principles, whether it was in the Waikoloa one, each of them, it was
<br />sort of that the heart is the culture and we need to preserve that, the protection of the waters and
<br />the land, the traffic issues in terms of infrastructure, having emergency services. I mean, I think
<br />you brought up, like, about how do we fund, you know, how do we look at those issues of
<br />emergency facility? And those numbers seem strange to me also – those consultant’s numbers
<br />for Waikoloa. But how do you look at that when you look at the Stanford Carr development? I
<br />mean, what do you say to him in terms of what kind of access, does he have to have that
<br />emergency exit, or is that up to his contract with other landowners? So I just want to stress that
<br />we, I think if we had gone on another three months, you would have seen it all come together
<br />under those same headings cause it’s just remarkable to me in reading through just how we were
<br />all started separately came to the same-what was important.
<br />I did want to mention on concurrency and that bill, some questions that you raised, I just wanted
<br />to make a couple comments is that when the concurrency bills first came up – and I don’t know
<br />whether that was a year or two ago – and it was only done on zoning – on the zoning level. One
<br />of the suggestions was, well, let’s do zoning now, and let’s wait and see what the CDPs say in
<br />terms of going any further, here is the one step. So I just want to bring that up, but you all in
<br />those discussions – I think Chris was there – sort of said, well, let’s just do zoning and let’s wait
<br />and see how the communities respond to this issue. We did have, Director Yuen made a number
<br />of comments to our original draft on concurrency and a number of other developers did, and
<br />that’s why if you read through that complexity, you see what it’s saying is in terms of vested
<br />rights, in terms of each of the areas that you were concerned if someone is going to be basically,
<br />some kind of additional, where they have a vested right to do something, and now it’s being
<br />changed. So we did address those issues specifically. And I think the important thing is that in
<br />zoning you can be zoned for just a category, you’re going to be commercial, but you don’t know
<br />yet until it’s the planning stage or the subdivision stage really what’s going to happen and what
<br />impact that will be. So it’s often in other communities it’s really looking at the plan stage or the
<br />subdivision stage that really you understand what the impact and can decide in terms of
<br />concurrency or impact fees, what is appropriate.
<br />And so I did want to just bring up one thing, which I see really in our district-wide, in a way it
<br />looks to you all as an entity, and that’s on 5.1, sort of the sustainability decision making and
<br />asking you, what we are saying is proposing that the responsible public entities to ensure sort of
<br />the long-term sustainability of the ecosystem in terms of questions that are raised regarding
<br />natural resources such as land or water. And I think that whole idea of stewardship and
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