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DARROW: I think it’s referring to the element, the natural beauty element. Is that correct? So it’s referring to the actual element of natural beauty, not so much the LUPAG designation. GRAHAM: Commissioner Domingo, would you like the testifier to explain a little bit why she said that? DOMINGO: Yeah, that’ll help. BYRNE: Sure. The Community Development Plans are a component of the General Plans to help implement the General Plans, and the recommendations of the 1983 Community Development Plan were to zone the entire coast Conservation/Open. There have also been joint resolutions out of the State Legislature asking for the same. And the Planning Commission in the past has actually supported similar initiatives. So I guess it’s a matter of interpretation, but certainly Development Plans in the past were recommended now. DOMINGO: Yeah, it seems like you mentioned that in 1983 all the ongoing discussions indicated that you folks wanted to have it Open and into 20-acre Ag, yeah? But somehow that suggestion on that part of your Community Development Plan was not followed and not implemented because the Planning Department has not up to this moment even changed the General Plan. So I’d just like to make that clear. BYRNE: Uh huh. DOMINGO: Okay? GRAHAM: Thank you. Any other questions for the testifier? Yes, Commissioner Alameda? ALAMEDA: Sorry. I’m interested in this Community Development Planning process ’cause that in a nutshell will kind of give us one idea of maybe where the community is headed in their thinking, yeah? Are you an active participant of that Community Development Planning process? BYRNE: In one of the focus groups, yeah. And I attended most of other meetings. ALAMEDA: Okay. Does it feel like it’s collaborative and there is, you know -? BYRNE: The community up there is very special; in North Kohala they are immensely involved in what’s going on. Chris can probably speak to that a little bit, and certainly the planners from the County that are involved in that. There’re focus groups in Kona and South Kohala and Puna; their groups focus on certain issues and they make recommendations to the general steering committee, and often they meet with their consultants. But folks in North Kohala are so, care so deeply about where they live and really want to make a difference, and they have really stepped up to the plate, and they have really in thelast 30 years. But they meet regularly, almost weekly, not just with, when the consultants are there. You’ll EXHIBIT A 7