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of the points on working on the plan was not to imply for ones that, in the previous drafts there were some listed and implied to be public in a way that we couldn’t support or substantiate; and so that was important. But, you know, for example, Keokea County Park Road, that’s the road to Keokea Beach Park, it’s a County road. And I do think that at this stage there is a reasonable differentiation between which ones are -. There are statements about which ones are public and then where it doesn’t say that they’re public they’re not, or you can’t prove that they are and so you’re not asserting it in the plan. BOWMAN: Mr. Chair? WOODWARD: Okay, Commissioner Bowman. WHITE: I -. WOODWARD: This is really a situation where we’re supposed to be asking you the questions. And we’re getting into a little bit of a kind of debate, and that’s really not what we want to do. So, Commissioner Bowman. BOWMAN: Okay, I’ll preface this with a question. I do believe that some of these were traditional accesses during the plantation era when there was only a landowner and they were able to use them when there was only one landowner. I see the quagmire that we’re in right now, is that there are multiple landowners. So what people think of as traditional access in today, 2008, it’s not. So is that what the problem is? WHITE: Okay. So I’d like to address that, and I think it’ll answer everything in terms of how you might be able to decide. And again, I refer you back to the plan on page 48 where it says “WHO will take the lead.” You know, the background is real clear here about the long-range access plan will take many years to implement, cause someone asked that question. And then “WHAT needs to be done,” and here you have the CDP clearly saying that this is a collaboration, “With the assistance of the Public Access Planner, the CDP Action Committee will develop an inventory and database of existing traditional public accessways identified by the community to be used as a planning tool in the County’s actions….” So this is down the road. And it says “will then work with the County, with other public agencies, and with the Kohala landowners to implement specific accesses for controlled public use.” So this is not, you know, I mean we’ve already covered what it is that we’re concerned about here in the discussion. LUCE: And, Commissioners, my big concern is generated by the Director saying that the Planning Department will use this list in conditioning subdivision approvals. If that is not the case, if Corporation Counsel had said that this is just a recommendation, if it’s not going to be used in analyzing subdivision applications and used as a tool to implement public access, then it’s kind of neutered. Where the rubber hits the road is where the staff refers to the wish list and mandates public access on private property when an owner is subdividing. That’s my problem. WOODWARD: All right, I think we’ve heard what you had to say, Mr. Luce. EXHIBIT C 16