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exact process that Oahu and Maui used to achieve their great planning progress. And if we don’t <br />do anything different, it’s going to be that we have nothing else to look forward to. <br />So I have great reservations about proceeding along the way we’re proceeding. I do support the <br />purposes of this project. <br />ALAMEDA:Thank you, Commissioner Iwashita. Commissioner Siracusa, and then <br />Commissioner Salavea. <br />SIRACUSA:Thank you. I wanted to address a comment that was made by both <br />Commissioner Salavea and Commissioner McCall about not wanting to limit the Applicant’s use <br />of the property to students. And I would just very briefly like to point out that it is the Applicant <br />himself who came forward with this application requesting “a 20-unit student housing apartment <br />project.” So it’s not that we’re looking to lay something on him that he was not seeking to create <br />in the first place. He could have come before us with a request for just a multi-family residential, <br />you know; and he didn’t. He asked for student housing specifically; and I have no problem <br />whatsoever about giving it to him. <br />ALAMEDA:Thank you. Commissioner Salavea? <br />SALAVEA:Just a point for the Planning Commission. In response to Commissioner <br />Iwashita’s comments, according to what I’ve read i\un the Hilo Community Development Plan, <br />this is on the Background Report, Page 1, bottom, under State and County Plans, Item No. 6, <br />says that the zoning is, or under Hilo Community Development Plan, it’s multi-residential for -. <br />So I think we’re within the correct zoning, if I’m not mistaken. <br />ALAMEDA:Thank you, Commissioner Salavea. Other questions? <br />FUKE:Can I confirm one item? <br />ALAMEDA:Mr. Torigoe, can our Applicant now return to the bench and confirm one <br />item? <br />TORIGOE:Sure. <br />ALAMEDA:Keep it quick. <br />FUKE:Sure. <br />ALAMEDA:Thank you. <br />FUKE:Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the latitude. I just talked to <br />Dr. Takase and he presently operates, owns and operates Tohbi Hale; and he has no problem in <br />having a condition restricting the project for student housing for a minimum of a 20-year period <br />commensurate, you know, with the rental program. <br />EXHIBIT A <br />9 <br /> <br />