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happen. On Maui, there are policies that were in place that could have incentivized some Pg 10 of the behavior that we saw from, like, big real estate conglomerates that wanted to swoop in and purchase a bunch of the land and all of that. We're really concerned that similar provisions might be brought into an urban development plan that's being implemented out here.We want to make sure that the urban development plan is truly community-led and not being forced on the community. And there's a lot of goals that I don't think the community is in enough agreement that we can just put down the gas on this thing and make it go forward. And that's what drew me here today, and I just wanted to raise that. Zendo Kern, Planning Director : Sure, to speak to that, part of what we have is within the general plan is we have the future land use maps, or currently the land use pattern allocation guide maps. And that basically shows the areas where the urban growth would occur, where ag would be, where your rural would be. That pretty much sets where the growth should occur. That's just the beginning. So anybody that would be coming in to actually try to get a change of zone has to go through a very challenging process, requires a lot of studies, et cetera.Then that goes through the planning department for us to look at and reference that against the general plan, the community development plans, and then the area plan before we can give a recommendation whether we support it or don't support it. From there, it moves to a planning commission, and that's a public hearing process. And from there, it goes to the county council for a minimum of three hearings, and those are all public hearing processes as well. So in order to do that, it's at least a year, if not longer. There's a lot of public awareness and a lot of public engagement within that, and that's a time for the community to come out, speak to things, share concerns, and then adjustments are generally made to that. So the fear of somebody coming in and having it green-lit tomorrow to be able to do urban unless it's already zoned isn't going to happen. If the land's currently zoned and they have their entitlements that they can work with up here, I'm not aware of any large scale. @128 minutes 4th member of the public expresses concern about SMART Cities: That Governor Green recently gave a speech to the United Nations where he was talking about his plans for the 15 minute cities in the smart islands and how Hawaii is a perfect test case for such things. Now, apparently you haven't heard of this.Uh So my request to you is find out what the governor meant and what his plans for this island may be to implement that. And then my request is don't do it. Mayor Mitch Ross replies: I have as a notes to myself one of the things to do is find out what the hell this 15 minute uh thing is smart city is uh and learn about it. So I will learn about it and I'm not sure what is. I did not listen to his speech to the United Nations. Uh You know, I apologize but didn't do it.Uh I missed that one. Thank you.