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YUEN: In the General Plan update that was started in the late 1990s and finally passed in 2005, I don’t believe that there were any specific changes to the General Plan maps involving the coastal areas. I would like to say, though, that although the General Plan may have an area as an Urban area, some kind of Urban designation, that the Planning Commission, the County Council and the Planning Department still have to make a site specific judgment as to whether that property should in fact be zoned for some kind of Urban use. The General Plan maps are taken on a broad scale; they show the general locations of uses and do not -, generally when you adopt the General Plan map, you aren’t looking at all the factors that may affect the actual usability or desirability of the property for a particular use by drainage, historic sites, viewplanes and the like. So there is still that analysis that has to be made on the zoning level and on the SMA level by the Planning Commission and the Council. GRAHAM: Thank you, Mr. Yuen. DOMINGO: Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman? GRAHAM: Yeah, Mr. Domingo. Remember we do have a ways to go on this. We’re going to hear from the applicant, then we’re going to discuss, so -. DOMINGO: Yeah, I understand, but you know, I’d just like to lay foundation for me -. GRAHAM: Okay. DOMINGO: And make it clear as to where I’m coming from. And I think with regard to having a workshop tomorrow, I think it’s good and I hope that people from the community would come and listen to try to understand what the process is like; because there being no request for any kind of General Plan amendment in this North Kohala coast indicates that somewhat there might be misunderstanding of what can be done and what would be done in the best interest of what the people actually want. And you know, it’s not like the Community Development Plan would actually drive the whole force, but as we’ve been often told the General Plan is a document, is a general document, and the Development Plan as we consider, decide on more finer and detailed development of a particular area is done through the Community Development Plan. And you know, I think where we need to make the initial changes would be at the General Plan review. And this particular case, it was mentioned that the Planning Commission and the Council and the Planning Department would decide where the finer boundaries of the development would be allowed, when you consider Urban and Ag and all of that. But you know, that not being done, when any particular application comes before the Council or the Planning Commission, in essence by default the decisions that they make is a statement of policy which would designate the proper use for that particular area based on what the General Plan speaks. And you know, if the General Plan is broad and the LUPAG map indicates a certain use for that particular land is such that it would be Rural, Ag or whatever, then the question is how far do we draw the line. And that line, the specific line, is not being drawn at any time by the Commission, the Planning Department nor the Council. So when anyone comes with an application for any kind of development before the Planning Commission or the Planning Department, the Planning Department looks at that, and looks at the LUPAG map, and they at that time initially would indicate, you know, this falls within the general context of what the General Plan is saying. So what actually happens is that the Planning Department then processes that application, and the Planning Commission in turn would recommend approval or EXHIBIT A 9