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FUKE: Okay. HOUSEL: Do you swear to tell the truth before the Planning Commission today on this matter? FUKE: Yes, I do. HOUSEL: Thank you. FUKE: Again, my name is Sidney Fuke. My business is 100 Pauahi Street, Hilo, Hawai‘i. COOK: Brian Cook. My address is 78-7021 Kewalo Street in Kona. HOUSEL: Thank you. FUKE: Very briefly. As I mentioned earlier, the discussion will focus on both this and the subsequent application inasmuch as they are kind of like next to each other. If you see, this is Brian Cook’s property; the other property is right below over here. And what I’d like to do, however, is kind of run you through the handout that I provided to all of the Commissioners just to give you a cognizance, because if you look at the Planning Director’s initial recommendation, it was recommendation for approval, and we hope that at the end of the day, or at the end of this meeting, that the Commission will conclude that the Planning Director’s initial recommendation was really, like, the correct one because that’s the position we’d like to assume. But nevertheless, when Mr. Cook bought the property after the land was subdivided, he worked together with the property owner on the makai side, which is JKS Partners, and in addition to that, worked with the owners, or developers, of this particular area. And the reason being is that after the acquisition of the property and before the planning process began, what was already known were two things: One was that the General Plan designation, which was Urban Expansion; two was the nearing adoption of the Kona Community Development Plan. And the Kona Community Development Plan again – now I refer you to the first sheet – was, basically the redline kind of suggests your Kona Urban Area; so the whole idea is to have as much as possible your developments focus within the Urban Area to minimize extra movements so on and so forth, vehicular movements. And then what they did was then created this so-called Regional Core, which will be identified as in red, and so these are, as the Director had indicated, just kind of like general blobs to suggest that generally this is the area they would want to have it. And then they have those Neighborhoods, which was identified all in blue.And so it’s basically captured on the first sheet. Now, if you look at the second sheet, the second sheet – these are all taken directly, by the way, from the Kona Community Development Plan, I made colored copies this morning at OfficeMax – but anyway, so what it talks about, when you have your TOD, the Transit-Oriented Development, what this is talking about is initially you have to have a core, look at the map over here, you have to have a core, and then surrounding that core is secondary uses, and outside of that core would then be like what they call it a greenbelt. So that’s the idea behind all of these small little blue and red dots; they want to have a core, secondary area and then your so-called green- space area. Then the third handout is what you see up over there, which talks about, like, this particular area being all within the Kahului-Puapua‘a Neighborhood TOD area. And there is no question Mr. Cook and JKS Partners, they conceded that the property falls within this area, so they wanted to work with that. So what they did, you know, from a comprehensive master planning standpoint, then they did the last sheet. The last sheet then takes from the assumption that what you see over there, you know, with that small little bus-looking thing over there, that is your core, that is 4 EXHIBIT C