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decision on the zoning or not. And I see Mr. Yuen would care to make comments also at this point. YUEN: Commissioner Iwashita did ask for comments from both parties. I simply renew my statement of objection to the deferral. On the more general question of what happens with the Leeward and Windward Commissions, what Mr. Lim and Mr. Torigoe have said is correct. It would be, if there is a matter that is validly deferred out of this Commission and at that time when it goes over to the – when the Commissions gets split, they do get split geographically into Leeward and Windward – and if a matter is in a formal contested case mode where it would be as if new commissioners were appointed and had to review the record before they took a vote on it; so that part is correct. If I can try to be a little helpful on the question of not leaving this sit out there. It’s quite likely that you’ll see the rezoning come through. My plan would be to have the zoning come through the Commission. I believe we were trying to get to the – I can’t remember if it was December’s – actually it would be sometime in January, so the Commission, you know, you’ll have a new zoning bill. Although I’d like to take it straight to the Council, because all the issues have been thrashed over quite a bit, the fact of a matter, to be procedurally correct on this, these rezonings have to go through the Planning Commission. So I wouldn’t be worried that you are not going to see something; if you don’t see something, it means that the Department, the Council or/and the property owner have not done anything to initiate a rezoning that would come through you. So the idea that you need to schedule a renewal of looking at the SMA Permit, I don’t think that’s really necessary. HOUSEL: Mr. Chairman? WATANABE: Mr. Housel? HOUSEL: I wonder if I can ask Mr. Lim. You said that you and your client intended to put together a new plan for developing this property. What do you think is a reasonable time frame that you can do that? LIM: I would say we probably need a minimum of six months, maybe eight months. HOSUEL: Okay. And do you intend at that time to request rezoning? LIM: I haven’t thought of that far ahead, but we may. It depends on how the Council also wants to treat it; they could do it how they did this time, which is basically the zoning allows something like 110 lots, but the SMA took it down to 50 lots. And we could do it the same way with the actual density is higher. But I heard Commissioner Iwashita’s comment, you know, so we’ll consider that so long as it doesn’t expose my client to additional impositions. HOUSEL: Okay, thank you. EXHIBIT A 17