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keeping with the existing character of the community. Multi-family, resort related, and multi- <br />story structures should be prohibited.” What does that say about affordable housing? I mean, <br />aren’t we for affordable housing? Well, you can’t do that with that restriction. So those are the <br />problems I have with it. So I just thought I would make that known again. <br />WATANABE: Okay, so noted. Any further comments? Yes, Ms. Bowman. <br />BOWMAN: I just have a question with the affordable housing in Puako. But it could <br />be 15 miles, right, a radius, I mean, it wouldn’t be in Puako, would it? <br />YUEN: Well, see, none of the zoning in Puako now has an affordable housing <br />requirement. Puako is a very expensive area, so anybody who comes into Puako -. In the first <br />place Puako is pretty limited right now in development and has been for many years because of <br />lack of water to Puako. And so there were areas that were zoned for Multi-Family or Resort that <br />have never been developed in Puako for that very reason. The General Plan then, the revisions <br />in 2005, took the Resort and Multi-Family designations out of Puako. Now, the zoning is still <br />there, but for the sites that need SMA Permits, those would not be consistent anymore with the <br />General Plan, and so you wouldn’t be able to get an SMA Permit. Be that as it may, for these <br />reasons it’s not likely that somebody would put affordable housing into Puako. Whether the <br />County, you know, wanted to promote it or not, there is no water for it. You can’t make, you <br />know, somebody who had water and had the zoning, they would sell it for whatever they could <br />get on the market because that’s good business and they could get a lot of money for it. So that’s <br />really the present situation as far as any kind of affordable housing going into Puako. <br />BOWMAN: Thank you. <br />WATANABE: Okay. Any further questions or comments? We do have a motion that’s <br />live, right? Yes. Seeing none, then, Mr. Darrow? <br />DARROW: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The motion before us is to send a favorable <br />recommendation to the Hawaii County Council. With that, I’ll take the roll. Commissioner <br />Domingo? <br />DOMINGO: Aye. <br />DARROW: Commissioner Bowman? <br />BOWMAN: Yes. <br />DARROW: Commissioner Housel? <br />HOUSEL: Aye. <br />DARROW: Commissioner Ogata? <br />OGATA: Aye. <br />EXHIBIT D <br />4 <br /> <br />