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trying to create obstacles for this Applicant for some unknown reason; and thatÓs not the case. The obstacle that IÓm suggesting are for the reasons stated. This has been phrased as a question about concurrent processing, whether theyÓre allowed concurrent processing. They have been allowed concurrent processing. The only thing the Department is recommending is that the Planning Commission defer voting on the SMA Permit until after the County Council has voted on the rezoning. This would probably involve a delay of perhaps six weeks from the time of voting to get the matter back on the agenda, depending on when the Kona meeting is involved. My, procedurally I would suggest that the Commission, after voting on the Change of Zone recommendation to the Council, continue hearing on the SMA Permit. That will ensure that, this being a continued hearing, thereÓs no open opportunity for a Contested Case hearing to be requested. ThatÓs not something that weÓre trying to create here. What we were meeting, while we, in the meeting between our talk about this a few minutes ago, I was racking my brain to try to think of examples in this administration of concurrent processing of rezoning applications and SMA Permits. I can think of only two that have been brought to the Commission so far during this administration. Those would be the Pepeekeo one that I mentioned earlier, a very small scale rezoning, and Alii Cove, which was a rezoning of a project that was rezoned for 90 residential, single-family residential units to a 200-unit condominium in RM. In that, in Alii Cove, we knew what it was going to end up being. If the rezoning was approved itÓd be a residential project. We had no question of it being a mix of uses and not knowing wha would be. We had a site plan with, exactly out, of the buildings, and how it would be built. We had a great deal more information and a great deal mo final result would be than we have before us here today. As far as practices over 25 years, I cannot speak to those. I do feel strongly that we have to be very careful about the decisions that we make. I donÓt, itÓs not for me to sit here and criticize the way things were done in the past. I do think that we should and must try to do, make our decisions as best we can. If we take a while to make a decision, thatÓs fine. What we have proposed in front of us is a project that is considerably larger in ultimate square footage than the Keauhou Shopping Center. I believe itÓs larger than the Crossroads Center in Kona; itÓs considerably larger than the Wal-Mart Center in Hilo; itÓs larger even, I mean in total acreage its larger than Prince Kuhio Plaza. I donÓt know about the square footage of it being involved. So youÓre talking about a major, major decision. I do take exception to the phrase Ðcurve ballsÑ in talking about the processing thatÓs going on till this date. We did ask for two time, we did ask fo decision on this, awaiting comments from the State Department of Transportation, on the previous two hearings. This is a very important, this application has important implications for the use of the Kaahumanu Highway and the traffic is a major issue here. We had no comment or information from the department in charge of that highway, about how they wanted to handle this application. We are trying to, as best we can, coordinate land use planning with transportation planning. I make no apologies for asking for those 18