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cause and what anxieties will be brought up on the people who sit on the Board of Directors or the Association or, you know, who make these kinds of suggestions. And that’s why I say beware of what you ask for, because in the future it might come to haunt them. YUEN: Yeah, well, that’s why we thought a Use Permit would be a good idea. There are areas, it is unusual for there to be an Open zone, so typically there’s some reason behind it. And in the case of Waikoloa, it was, the whole master planning of the community included this Open space buffer around it. There are not that many other areas. Puuanahulu golf course, for example, is now in an Open zone, State Ag. But there are lots of, it’s pretty easy to do a wind farm in most of the Agricultural areas of the island because they’re not zoned Open. And so all you need is a building permit. So we do, it does come to the Planning Department, the Planning Department looks at it, but we don’t make any kind of regulations on it. There’s also a setback distance from the edge of the property, but mostly to account for the fall distance of the tower. So those are the current rules. GRAHAM: All right, do we have any other questions for Jeff from the Commissioners? We have no one signed up to testify yet. Is there anyone who wanted to testify on this agenda item today? Well, we don’t have public testimony. Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA: And so if there’s no public testimony, can we then go on to have a motion so that we can go into discussion? GRAHAM: I believe that’d be correct. Mr. Torigoe, could you just give us a, first, just a little set on how we should do a motion in the sense that we have a proposition initiated by the County Council and then there’s a slight modification to it made by the Planning Director. So what would be the appropriate way for us to handle the motion? TORIGOE: Okay, going back to your rules, basically Rule 11-3 (c) discusses Council-initiated amendments, and you’ve got a 120-day review period, and then the Commission shall transmit the proposed amendment together with its recommendation through the Mayor to the Council. The Commission shall recommend approval in whole or in part, with or without modifications, or rejection of such amendment. So you basically will move to recommend either an approval or a rejection. You can make the recommendation including some modifications. So say if somebody wanted to just go along with what the Director is proposing, then basically it would be recommending an approval with the modifications suggested by the Planning Director. GRAHAM: Thank you, Mr. Torigoe. Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA: Okay, that said, I will make the motion to pass a favorable recommendation to the County Council on the Council-initiated amendment to Chapter 25 of the Zoning Code, Hawaii County Code, 1983 (2005 Edition), as amended, EXHIBIT A 4