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MR. KAHUI: Keauhou is really a distinctive community between those that live in Keauhou and those that live north of Keauhou. MR. KANUHA: Because these census blocks follow roads, specifically too, and there arenÓt too many roads connecting AliÓi Drive to Kuakini road; or Mamalahoa Highway. So to say you want to put a line in the middle of---ItÓs difficult, especially in this area. MR. MIDDLESWORTH : If you look at the census blocks along the ocean and they are all long, skinny things. Some of them have no people in them, but they get really strange. CHR. SIRACUSA: Then it ends up looking like you gerrymandered, even though there are no people in the long fingers. MR. MELROSE: If you look at the two existing maps, both the one existing one and the one before that, this is where the line falls. There is a little bit of variation north and south, but those two lines have been in the existing Council distinction for 20 years. So, can we fix it, I don know? Those are number issues. But, traditionally, to the extent that 20 years is tradition, we have had that line. ItÓs not that much different than this one. It varies a little bit, a half mile or a quarter mile one way or another. MR. KAHUI : I think with the growth in our area, we could easily see moving that southern boundary further south, or likewise, for District 7; keeping Kailua collectively in District 8. But again, that is just a thought. MR. KAHAWAIOLAÒA : For the sake of conversation, in Kailua-Kona--I donÓt know too much about it except the County has a Kailua Design Plan--if you split Kailua-Kona any other way, politically, through whatever line, there is an upset in the planning processing for Kona. Kona, Kailua anyways, became a very special place when they began to have their own CDP, or the Kailua Village Design. So anything you needed to do in that area became a special process in the Planning Department. So that would change if these things are allowed to stand. I would want to go back to it, because Dru and Jeff said something about historical; I would like to go back to 4 and look at 4 because I see where there may be a contiguous cut in some 2,000 acres of Hawaiian Homes land that we have there. What has happened here, and then to the left, we got Keaukaha, but all the blank stuff; and I am assuming that is the District 3 border of Puna. So Keaukaha is now in District 3 as opposed to District 4. If itÓs just a matter of changing Councilmen, that may be livable. MR. MELROSE: But you are still held together as a community. The Hawaiian Homes is together, Panaewa is together. MR. KAHAWAIOLAÒA: I just need to make sure. IÓm looking at it in terms of our properties. The shopping centers and stuff like that. MR. MELROSE: That is all in the same district. 23