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than spreading into residential neighborhoods not planned for such commercial - uses Another consideration is the potential for encouraging strip commercial development should the request be approved. Approval of the request may attract the “in-filling” of lands between the established commercial areas by other commercial developments or could extend commercial development further, in this case, east and west, creating strip development in this area. Such strip development would create rapid growth increase in adverse impacts to traffic, as one testified, expressed, as multiple access points would be required for such developments along Kekuanaoa Street. The words I’ve just read basically comes from the Department’s recommendation for an unfavorable recommendation in Item 3 on our agenda today, but the words fit this case. But in this case we have a different recommendation. The last paragraph I’m going to read, “Therefore, from a land use perspective, to allow higher density commercial uses through the CN zoning in this area would be inappropriate at this time, in my mind, especially because the applicant already has adequate facilities that services its business needs. Allowing this change of zone would undoubtedly serve as a precedent for future rezonings for commercial uses along Kekuanaoa Street in this area. Based on the above, the CN-10 zoning is not appropriate for this property. The distinction that the Department is making between this application and the one on Item 3 is that the one on Item 3 the LUPAG designation is Low Density Urban; and in this it is Medium Density Urban. And just as a historical footnote, I would point out that that designation, Medium Density Urban for this area, was made in 2005 basically in, and I regard, a stealth manner. It was not, up until that time the community, at the community’s specific request Low Density, it had been previously Medium Density Urban. And when all of the hoopla occurred on, Jeff, can you help me, the name of that street by the Civic… Piilani Street. When that zoning change came up and those businesses came up and there was considerable neighborhood uproar about that, the zoning was changed from Medium Density Urban to Low Density Urban. The neighborhood did not come back and ask for an increase in the Medium Density Urban back in 2005. It’s something that happened. And now we’re having, if it didn’t happen we wouldn’t be dealing with this today. If, you know, but it did happen and so we’re dealing with this. But at the same time in 2005 what happened in the General Plan amendments was the implementation, the planned implementation portion of the General Plan, 15.1, Community Development Plans; and this is really the process that should be followed before any action like this should be taken. The Community Development Plans are intended to be a form for community input into managing growth and coordinating the delivery of government services to the community. The Community Development Plans will translate the broad General Plan statements to specific actions as they apply to ATTACHMENT 1 3