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to select one today, we havenÓt gone through them all, but if you quickly look at the deviations, the deviations will help you quickly make that assessment. MR. MIDDLESWORTH: Except, there are two conflicting clauses in the Ordinance; one which says, deviation, and one which says you have to take into account growth. I think, from our point of view, growth is the more important consideration. MR. MELROSE : That, and communities of interest. MR. KAHUI: I agree with that. MR. MELROSE : What this shows is that it is very easy, not easy, it is not hard to create a district that is numerically right on it. But I think this is where the Ordinance is going to throw us a curve; if it fails the other test. This is a question we asked of Corporation Counsel before, and he said, ÐWell, letÓs wait and see if itÓs a problem.Ñ But, it is going to be a problem, and we are going to have to make some calls on it. ThatÓs what the Ordinance says, and thatÓs a problem with the Ordinance. MR. KAHAWAIOLAÒA : After Mike brought up the fact about that there may be ambiguity in the Ordinance, and Jeff'; I am trying to think of what I saw in the Ordinance and the new Bill that was written. IÓve been hearing Ðcommunity of interest,Ñ and this community of interest; is it the same as alternate? MR. MELROSE : I donÓt think itÓs defined in the Ordinance. MR. KAHAWAIOLAÒA : Absolutely, and thatÓs the problem. ThatÓs what IÓm saying. If we are going to use the Ordinance, then we have to stay with the Ordinance and look at it. Instead of using terms such as Ðcommunity of interest,Ñ I think we need to look at Ðcontiguous,Ñ and the language that is there. Once we get maÓa, or used to the terms such as Ðcontiguous,Ñ and I canÓt think of what the other ones are. But, a community of interest could create or throw us a bigger curve than what we are looking at. The language in the Ordinance is quite clear, especially when we are saying we didnÓt know what Ðalternate plansÑ were. I would just want Commissioners to think about contiguous. MR. KAHUI: I agree that if we are going to plan for growth we need to have an idea of what that looks like. For example, in Kona, we know that we have so many permits for housing developments; we know that Hawaiian Homes got 200 homes, 100 already under construction and another 100 planned for the next year. Somehow, if we are going to plan for growth, thereÓs got to be some kind of statistics somewhere, some kind of information that will allow us to make that kind of choice so that we donÓt miss that element of this whole redistricting. So, I donÓt know how we plan for growth except to go and ask for some numbers from the Planning Department about permitting and about how many homes are coming up for construction; even if they were forecasting this some five maybe even the next ten years. We know there is significant growth in Kona. There is a plan for a 2,300 unit affordable housing project for HHFDC; we know that the affordable housing unit up at Hina Lani is for about another 70 or 80 units. So, even though they might not have people there, people 25