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IWASHITA: Okay. And Commissioner Domingo suggested to you that, you know, <br />there’s disclosure and all these other things, there are things that are going to come up. One of <br />the things that I want to make you aware of and suggest is that these community development <br />plans that have been going on for Puna and Kona and Kohala and so forth, that that really needs <br />to be done for Panaewa forest, and for Hilo and Hamakua, those areas that haven’t been done <br />yet; and they’re going to start Kau pretty soon. So, I don’t know, are you concerned enough <br />about these kinds of things that you would participate in that process to see -? <br />BRANCO: Yes, yes, yes, definitely. <br />IWASHITA: Okay, thank you. <br />WOODWARD: All right. Well, thank you very much. Mr. Branco, you may be seated. <br />Any discussion, Commissioners? Commissioner Iwashita. <br />IWASHITA: For a motion? <br />WOODWARD: You’re ready to make a motion, go for it. <br />IWASHITA: Well, my motion would be that with regard to application <br />REZ 08-000081, are we doing this separately? <br />WOODWARD: Mr. Torigoe, do we have two separate motions? <br />TORIGOE: Yeah, usually you do the State Land Use first. <br />IWASHITA: So the State Land Use Boundary Amendment from Agriculture to Urban <br />for 6.3 acres of land, that the Planning Commission send a negative recommendation to the <br />County Council. <br />WOODWARD: Do we have a second? <br />ALAMEDA: Second. <br />WOODWARD: Now I’ll get things in the right order. Any discussion? <br />IWASHITA: Yes. Mr. Chair? <br />WOODWARD: Commissioner Iwashita. <br />IWASHITA: Thank you. Beyond the community development plan issue that I raised <br />just now, I’m really concerned, you know -.Having come from the Hawaii Conference of <br />Planning Officials the other month on Maui, most of the discussion was about peak oil and really <br />focusing on the fact that we as an island community are, you know, subject to -- I mean $140 a <br />barrel of oil went down, now went under $65 a barrel, whatever -- the unpredictability of the oil <br />market and what’s going to happen just, you know -. Well, it was emphasized how vulnerable <br />we are. And that if it goes up to 150, you know, go back up to that kind of a level, that you <br />know, we’re expletively deleted, really, economically and all kinds of ways. And so the focus <br />16 <br /> <br />