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GRAHAM:I€d just like to make just a little concern comment for the Planning <br />Director€s evaluation. I remember we had a very, I wouldn€t quite say contentious, but <br />somewhat controversial one on the property right next door which was already zoned the way it <br />is and they were just asking for a time extension; and the gist of the controversy was mostly <br />about the flooding. But it really does represent just kind of an island in a sea of residential. And <br />it doesn€t seem to me like the need for commercial is that great if the one island in the sea of <br />residential sat around for so long it needed a time extension. So I don€t know if we have any <br />neighbors to testify but I just kind of -. I know this is high density urban on the General Plan. <br />I€m just wondering if we take this one that was grandfathered into as right next door to it and sort <br />of, you know, spread the commercial around the whole residential area there, whether that€s <br />something we should be concerned about that this time, cause I know the homeowners right <br />behind all this were, you know, trying to protect the residential interests the best they could the <br />last time around. <br />GALDONES:Commissioner Graham, do you wish a response to your comment? <br />GRAHAM:I just wondered if the Planning Director had any comment on what my <br />concernswere. <br />GALDONES:Mr.Yuen? <br />YUEN: The only, I wouldn€t call the location an island. It€s more at the fringe of <br />a spreading commercial area that has extended, that is gradually extending down Kilauea. And <br />there is commercial, there are quite a bit of commercial in the area. This is just the edge of it. <br />I€m not sure how far the high density goes in the General Plan. How far down Kilauea does it <br />go? <br />DARROW:Within the last amendment, prior to that, this was high density, this <br />particular area was medium density; and within the last amendment this all expanded to high <br />density. This remains open. <br />YUEN:Okay. And as far as the other, what€s happening is that there is more <br />interest in commercial, that€s why the other project got dusted off the shelf after being zoned <br />from quite some time ago. <br />GALDONES:Any further questions of Jeff? Commissioner Iwashita. <br />IWASHITA:I€m going to plug the need to do, as soon as possible, the community <br />development plan, again, for this and the entire island because, you know -. Again, the concerns <br />that we have about how this creep is going, I think all of us in the community share that concern, <br />and how, you know, our aina is going to look in 20 years. And I€d just like to share with the <br />Commission a personal experience I had a couple of weeks ago after delivering my son to <br />college in Washington State and stopping in a town called Leavenworth, Washington. I don€t <br />know if any of the other Commissioners have been there. But Leavenworth, Washington, is to <br />me a model of how a community development plan process can result in more idyllic kind of <br />4EXHIBIT A <br /> <br />