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deferments. It would be highly irresponsible for us to proceed to make a decision without having heard from the State Department of Transportation on a project of this size and this potential importance of impact. On concurrent processing in general, thereÓs another example of concurrent processing that is allowed and the Department has, as a matter of practice, not allowed. And that is concurrent processing of matters that go to the LUC with rezonings. So we havenÓt allowed those generally for the same reasons that IÓve talked about here. There has been a concern on the part of the department that we donÓt know how the project is going to come out of the LUC and, so, it would be a duplication and a double effort to allow the rezonings to go through prior to the LUCÓs final action, although the statutes are, although the statutes do allow that. I bring that up as a parallel because what we have is something thatÓs closer to an LUC level action, not a typical kind of relatively small SMA/rezoning that you see in other cases in the past. On the question of giving notice to the Applicant, as I say we have allowed concurrent processing. This matter has been concurrently processed. WeÓre deferment in the hearing. I think about a month ago, I told Mr. Fuke that I was leaning toward recommending denial of the SMA application as a matter of being premature. On further reflection, I think that this is the right way to do it, to defer, to continue hearing on the SMA application until after the Council acts. FUJIKAWA:Mr. Fuke, you have a response to the DirectorÓs comment? FUKE:Just a couple. Maybe, IÓm sorry, Chris, we talked about Ðcurve balls,Ñ maybe this is the season, you know, since baseball, you know, but, the playoffs and all that stuff -. But if IÓm hearing correctly, one of the reasons -. And I can understand having to continue the hearing at the last meeting because you wanted to wait until Department of Transportation Highways provided comments to Òcause Queen Kaahumanu Highway is a major highway and it falls under the jurisdiction of the State. But you have that comment, you already have that The other thing is that, as I, just to reiterate, what you see is like what the Applicant wants to do at a maximum level. Whether that gets implemented or not is another thing. If they wish to exceed the Ðenvelope,Ñ other than what is presented here in this application, they have to come back before the Planning, you kno to request for an amendment. My question and, therefore, is that if you assume -. And then the Director is saying that they want to withhold a decision pending the outcome of the CouncilÓs decision. So, as I indicated earlier, if the Council decides to nix the Project District zoning, this thing is zero, you know, you donÓt have anything. ItÓs not really a waste of time because weÓve already been here three times already anyway. The other thing, if the Council elects to, letÓs make the assumption that the Council approves the Project District zoning, as recommended by the Planning Director. My 19