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WATANABE: Okay, thank you. Fellow Commissioners, do we have any questions of Ms. Wille? Seeing none, you may be seated then, Ms. Wille. Okay, we have had an opportunity to review this South Kohala Community Development Plan over the course of three meetings – I guess that’s approximately a month and a half now. Would anyone care to make a motion? I have no one else signed up to testify. Yes, Mr. Domingo. DOMINGO: Mr. Chairman, would it be appropriate that a motion be made to forward this South Kohala Community Development Plan to the County Council for review and approval? WATANABE: Favorable recommendation? DOMINGO: Yes, favorable recommendation. BOWMAN: I second. WATANABE: Very good. Thank you, Ms. Bowman. Discussion? Mr. Woodward. WOODWARD: Yeah, I’ll just go over a few points that I’ve made in the past – some positive and some not so positive. I think that one thing that the Community Development Plan has done that we have not seen done is addressing the light pollution question, and I think that was a very positive effect. I have problems with a couple of things. One is on Page 48, 1.2 “The County Planning Director is requested to submit a draft of a bill to the County Council that sets out a concurrency management system for South Kohala. The purpose of the bill is to create a system that will impose reasonable and fair infrastructure concurrency requirements on developments within the district that already possess zoning entitlements, and are therefore not currently subject to the concurrency requirements of HCC 25-2-46.” Essentially, retroactive concurrency requirements, and I have a problem with that. One other thing – well, two other things actually – on Page 106 where they are talking about Action Program, constructing a second access road to Queen Kaahumanu Highway, it says on the lower part of the page there, “The County recently retained a special consultant to develop a financing plan for this second access road …. The consultant’s draft report estimated annual costs to Waikoloa Village home owners as follows: Existing Single Family Homes $90 per year …. New Single Family Homes $1,463 per year ….” And there are some other things I won’t go into there. But I specifically asked this question and I said, “Well, per year, I mean, how many years are we talking about?” This is a 30-year bond. So they are talking about -. Is that fair? You know, if you build a new home there and you are paying $1,500 a year for 30 years, that’s $45,000; and the guy that has an existing home there is paying $2,500. I can’t go with that, I just can’t go with that. I mean, I don’t know where they pulled that one out of. The other thing when you get to the thing about the Puako Community Plan says, “…. the overwhelming majority of residents in Puako oppose any development in this area that is not in EXHIBIT D 3