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was available online for their review along with the website link that they could access the document. A limited number of hard copies, 250 to be exact, was available at the following locations, free of charge: at Puako General Store, Harbor Gallery in Kawaihae, Waikoloa Elementary School, and the North Hawaii Hospital. The names of the South Kohala CDP Steering Committee members and their willingness to be available to answer any questions and concerns was also talked about in the flyer, my contact information if any questions regarding the process. Along with the flyer, we included a summary produced by Townscape, highlighting key points of the document. And finally, an announcement of the upcoming community meetings scheduled for May that the community could attend and give their input. thnd On May 20 and 22 the third pair of community meetings were held in Waimea and in Waikoloa. Then from May through July the Steering Committee, Focus Groups and Townscape used that input and, through a series of iterations, created the South Kohala CDP pre-final draft that you have before you. At this time I’d like to ask Mr. Tsuchida to give you an overview of some of the content. WATANABE: Mr. Tsuchida, as a formality, name and address, please. TSUCHIDA: Yes. Thank you, Allen. Good evening, Mr. Chair and Commissioners. Again, my name is Bruce Tsuchida. I’m the president of a planning company called Townscape, Inc. My address is 1159 Kamiloiki Place, Honolulu. I’d like to share with you just a few comments about the Plan. For the past year as a, I think I mentioned the last time I was before you our company has actually been working on both the North Kohala CDP and the South Kohala CDP.I recently had a chance to go back and check our time records for these projects, and totaled up hours put in over the past year for myself and my planning staff; we’ve put in over 5,000 hours of professional time working on these Plans. So I thought that was quite a few hours. But I also am pretty sure that collectively the community folks who worked on these Plans have put in actually far more hours than we have. And I think we should all commend the community for the work that they have done. From the very beginning of the planning process we tried to emphasize a couple of, I think, very important planning principles both to the Planning Department and to the community folks. We said for one thing that these Plans need to be focused Plans.We cannot – especially since we only had a little bit more than a year to work on these Plans – we told folks we can’t try to address everything, all issues, all problems, all possible solutions because that’s going to take years to do, and if we only have a short period of time, we’re going to end up with a Plan that maybe has a lot of words in it but is not actionable – it’s not specific enough. So we said we have to be focused, we have to be action-oriented, we have to really drill down to the most important ideas and the most important things to do. And I think by and large people agreed with that. And as well as Allen has already pointed out and as you folks in looking at the Plan can certainly see, the Plan was organized primarily by addressing four very distinct communities in South Kohala. And this again was very strongly voiced by community folks from the very beginning that they felt the Plan could not be just general ideas for the whole district as a whole because the communities within South Kohala were so different and distinct. So that’s why in a way this is, yes, the South Kohala Plan, but obviously it has separate chapters for each of the EXHIBIT E 4