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MR. KAHAWAIOLAÒA: If it stays in the District, then in the next election, we just have to go <br />vote in a different place, thatÓs all. We just have to go vote in a different place. We will be in <br />District 3 as opposed to District 4. And that is what I am beginning to see here. They have <br />moved it. YouÓve kept Wailuku. <br /> <br />MR. MELROSE <br />: On the issue of Kailua town, and the splitting of Kailua town. The last district <br />in Hilo runs through the middle of downtown. We too, have a downtown plan and a <br />collaborative effort to maintain the downtown, which has actually not been a problem at all for <br />us in downtown. What we have done is we have both councilmen working with us. Fresh takes <br />the lead on things because he has the bigger portion of downtown, but Donald has been <br />absolutely right there for everything as well. So, to some degree, it is less of a detractor than it is <br />from our perspective than it is an asset; we have two people who are vested in the downtown <br />area. So, I wouldnÓt presuppose that itÓs a bad thing. ThatÓs all I wanted to say. <br /> <br />MR. KANUHA <br />: And the same thing would go for Kailua. IÓm sure both council persons would <br />take a vested interest in Kailua. <br />MR. CARVALHO <br />: Can we see Waimea? Can you zoom further in, I want to see what road that <br />is. <br /> <br />MR. MELROSE <br />: ThatÓs Punani, it looks like. I think what this does, is if Hmkua needs to <br />grow, because it has to. It has to pick up more votes. It picked up votes south; a portion went to <br />the river and the other portion moved up. So, it kind of split the growth going two directions. It <br />took the Wainaku lands which are kind of knitted to downtown, the residential density across the <br />river, which was a part of District 2, and moved it up into Hmkua in order to help fill part of <br />that. Then it moved a little bit the other way too. It seems to me like thatÓs what this one does. <br /> <br />CHR. SIRACUSA: Are we ready to move on and look at Plan 8? <br />MR. KANUHA: I ran the integrity test on this one and it just totally fai <br />MR. MELROSE: District 2, 4 and 5; District 4 and 5 are both split. <br /> <br />MR. KAHAWAIOLAÒA: Look at District 1. <br /> <br />MR. MELROSE: This one might explode on us; what do you think? <br /> <br />MR. KANUHA: Even Hmkua went in part of Kailua on this one. <br />MR. MELROSE: Mauka Kona and HonokaÒa are in the same district. <br />MR. KAHUI: IÓm glad we have numbers to identify this map. We canÓt tell if this is my map or <br />not. I would like to comment though that Map 6 and 7, if you look at the deviation, the <br />percentages were much closer; although the boundaries need more clarification as well as <br />compaction for communities, it was probably the best set of plans to work from. So, if we were <br />24 <br /> <br />