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WOODWARD:Madam Director? LEITHEAD TODD:I would defer this one to Corporation Counsel. WOODWARD:Mr. Gonzalez? LIM:Well, for the applicant’s benefit let me make a statement; and this is not only for this applicant, I think it’s generally for all applicants. It’s if the Planning Commission or the County Council gets in the business of cutting real estate deals for adjoining owners, I don’t know where that will stop. I think it’s a bad idea. You should stay within the purview of what your charge is, which is to look at the land use issues. LEITHEAD TODD:Hang on. But, Mr. Lim, the Planning Commission could require that that road go in, too, right? LIM:That’s correct, I suppose, but under what power? The County has already given up its power to require the road, I suppose. LEITHEAD TODD:I don’t think we’ve given up Kupukupu Street. We may have given up Kukuau, but we didn’t give up -. I’m just saying that because there was a plan to put a road network, and this also impacts the next property coming in, that we could require a connection from Kukuau going down to Hualalai through both properties as part of an overall, you know, master plan. So I’m just saying that I think it would behoove the applicant to work out an agreement with Mr. Paiva before this gets to the County Council for some access to his property, because then that would take away the concern and take away the need to have a public street there. LIM:Sure. I hope I wasn’t misunderstood. I am trying to work it out. We were trying to do it before the meeting today but I just couldn’t reach my client. So that’s why I said, you know, I can’t tell you today that I got authorization to say that we’re going to give him the easement. IWASHITA:Mr. Chair? WOODWARD:Yes, Commissioner Iwashita. IWASHITA:You know, Mr. Lim is -. I agree with Mr. Lim that, you know, this body and the County really shouldn’t get into cutting deals. And, but in this case one of the parcels was intended to be, and the tax map shows the intent, that it’s supposed to be a road. Right? So what we’re being asked to do is to change that as part of this application. And so, you know, I think the Director’s suggestion or inquiry was on point as far as saying that, you know, part of the condition of this approval could be that Parcel 80 remain a road and not be used for any other purpose. So, you know, and that obviously has ramifications on what can be developed on the rest of the land. So, but that is germane. That is part of what, you know, we need to look at, the overall development of the area. And so, and it does, I guess my impression is there is another application coming through on the adjoining parcel which according to the tax map, you know, 14 EXHIBIT A