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at least I am hoping that you all would be able to work this out within, you know, amongst each
<br />other and we can discuss this later at the next Hilo meeting. Okay?
<br />YEH: Yeah, and I understand that. And we’re certainly willing to sit at the table
<br />and talk.
<br />WATANABE: Yeah, okay.
<br />YEH: Thank you.
<br />WATANABE: Great. With that, I’d like to call up Mr. Fuke and give you briefly, though,
<br />yeah, Mr. Fuke, you know, cause, again, there’s no intention to deliberate on this today.
<br />FUKE: Okay. I do understand, Mr. Chairman.
<br />WATANABE: Just briefly if you want to rebut some of what has been discussed.
<br />FUKE: I do have a question, however, regarding the access issue. So if the
<br />Commission Chair is inclined to defer this matter then the question is like defer until when? I
<br />mean, defer until -? That’s kind of like what I wanted answered because Mr. Sulla is over here,
<br />he’s an attorney representing the applicant, and he has a different view as far as like the access
<br />question. You know, I’m really, I apologize to the Commission for having to put the
<br />Commission in a maybe quasi, in a position to quasi adjudicate this issue and perhaps maybe,
<br />you know, this is not necessarily the proper venue. But Mr. Sulla who is an attorney has a
<br />different opinion on the access issue. And that’s the reason I was asking the question, if there is
<br />going to a continuation, what would the Commission be looking for in terms of a resolution on
<br />the access question?
<br />WATANABE: In my opinion I don’t think we want to get involved with the access issue.
<br />You know, I think we’re lay people at best on land use issues, yeah. You know, I’d prefer the
<br />attorneys get with land court and each other and decide whether you actually have access, and to
<br />what extent you have access, etc. Now it would be even better if both parties could get together
<br />and determine that, oh, you know -. My real concern is only the amount of the adequate
<br />infrastructure. It seems like that might not be the whole thrust of the issue though. It sounds like
<br />we’re talking about footprint and this particular parcel being outside of the footprint that, I guess,
<br />we have to get involved in. Right? It’s a land use issue.
<br />FUKE: So from the land use perspective, and I’ll be very brief, Mr. Chairman, I
<br />think at this point in time I feel very sorry for the applicant, you know, because the applicant
<br />relied upon a letter that the Planning Director had generated to say, look, don’t go in for a special
<br />permit, whether it’s for a bottling plant or other wise, that the appropriate process in this situation
<br />here given the General Plan, given the fact that there are existing industrial zoning in that area,
<br />the appropriate procedural venue is the rezoning process.
<br />You know, having said that, you know, like relative to the CDP itself, and this is why like, you
<br />know, I was like not too involved in all of the different CDPs, but I think that there are some
<br />conceptual flaws behind some of the CDPs. And so if you take, for example, what Mr. Yeh is
<br />saying -- that if you don’t fall within the village core that there is this provision to say like no
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