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grandfathered use which didn’t make the map on the corner of Kahaopea and Kilauea,
<br />which is the southwest lot, on that southwest corner. Right? And there’s a barbershop
<br />there, competitor right there; and I’m not sure what the zoning is, how that’s done. But,
<br />you know, that shop doesn’t even have proper parking. People park on the grass and
<br />stuff. You know, it’s not really done correctly. So yeah, zoning, we should be
<br />consistent. I hope the Director’s comments would apply to 15.1, community
<br />development plan, and do what the law says, do the community development plans, do
<br />them all at once. But since it ain’t being done, you know, notwithstanding my
<br />persistence added, I don’t know why -. But in this case because to me the applicants
<br />made an effort to go in the neighborhood and figure things out and undisputedly has
<br />improved the neighborhood by taking over this property, I, you know -. And I
<br />understand the Director’s concern about there are, you know, you can have a 7-Eleven,
<br />you can have all these other uses, and maybe in the future you can make a lot of money to
<br />selling off to one of those people. But I, you know, for present purposes I don’t have any
<br />real strong concerns at this point that that this is really outside what the General Plan
<br />says. I mean the line it’s stipulated at the beginning is a soft line. And to me the way this
<br />neighborhood has developed -- especially over my objections, again, the passage of the
<br />other rezoning on Puainako Street, you know those kinds of things are going on -- I
<br />cannot see, I’ll make an exception to my insistence of a community development plan in
<br />this case and I will support this application.
<br />ALAMEDA: Okay. Commissioner Domingo.
<br />DOMINGO: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As a continuance of my arguments, the
<br />only issue here is where would you draw the line as depicted on the LUPAG Map. The
<br />LUPAG Map is a map that is used to carry out the General Plan. Okay. It was decided
<br />that that line, that line of demarcation, would be towards the Taniguchi area; and across
<br />Kilauea would still be Low Density. You know, many years ago when only Downtown
<br />existed it was like development should only happen Downtown. But things have
<br />changed, as we all know. And as we look at the history of Hilo, tidal waves and the
<br />pressure for growth and development taking place, tidal waves forced us to come to
<br />Kaiko Mall and forced us to go to Hilo Shopping Center. And, you know, then we find
<br />the commercial core of Hilo Downtown was so-called broken up and that then there were
<br />other opportunities for people with properties to develop their properties, to rezone and
<br />develop their properties into a commercial area. And because of that we have the
<br />commercial core here in Kaikoo Mall, and Hilo Shopping Center, and the latest is up
<br />Puainako, no not the latest. In fact then we went to Food Fair up at Kinoole, and then
<br />after that we went to Puainako, you know, below Kinoole, and then after that we went to
<br />Puainako Shopping Center. And flexible, planning has been real flexible in this case.
<br />I remember once before there was a statement made that commercialization of properties
<br />should not go far beyond the street where you have the State Agricultural Complex. On
<br />that street going up, that was once spoken of that we confine urban, commercial
<br />development north of that area up to Downtown Hilo. But no, it has gone beyond that.
<br />And what I’m saying is that planning is flexible. And even the same as this line that we
<br />refer to on the LUPAG Map, we’re saying this side is Medium Density and that side is
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