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Review and Discuss Plan 31 MR. KANUHA: Okay, we are moving on to Plan_31. Discussion on Plan_31; does anyone have any comments? MR. MIDDLESWORTH: It looks a little strange, but it is a map that creates those two very small urban districts; one in Hilo and one in Kona; which we have talked about off and on. MS. POINDEXTER: I'm curious to see where the boundaries are between District 1 and 9, if we could start there, because it looks like there are some big changes there. It pulled Honoka`a into District 9, which is very interesting. If you would zoom in, I would like see what street they are taking as the border. Can you go more towards the ocean side? It is taking from Pauhau Camp Road up. Can you scroll more mauka side? Is Ahualoa in there with the Homestead Road? I guess now if you go to the border between District 8 and 9, it is taking all of Waikoloa Village into District 8. But, actually, this is kind of an interesting map to throw out there. It is a total shift. It is as paradigm. MR. KANUHA: Let's go down to District 7. Let's start at the bottom between District 7 and 6. Is that Kamehameha Road? I would say that is an acceptable boundary. MR. MELROSE: Does this one split Kaloko subdivision, if you go farther up? Several of these split Kaloko Mauka. MR. KANUHA: This one splits Kealakehe. MR. KAHUI : I see that the Parkway goes up to the dead end, and then Kealaka` a Street is also an acceptable boundary going north /south. There are quite a few homes in that subdivision. Those are the single family dwellings. There are probably 1,000 people in that area. For the purpose of this map and the numbers, I'm okay with it, but it does split that community. MR. KANUHA: Personally, I don't think that is an acceptable split of a boundary line. MS. POINDEXTER: Is this a map you would consider working on though? MR. MELROSE: Let me make a couple of comments on this. This is a paradigm shift. To include Kapoho with Na` alehu, I have a hard time with that. In fact, you can't get there by road. The way the map is drawn, the road doesn't follow it. The boundary between District 3 and 5 does not follow a road, it follows as subdivision boundary, but not a road. So you really can't drive from Na`alehu and stay within the boundary and get to Kapoho. So, on it's face it doesn't work. More significantly though, there is one Puna vote, and then there is a Puna vote that is shared in Ka`u and a Puna vote that is shared with Waiakea. There is one Hilo vote and then there is a Hilo vote that is shared with Puna and one that is probably predominately in District 1. I think it is a dilution of a kind of a regular logic, but I think it falls on the lack of connectivity. So, could you just confirm that for me, that the boundary between District 5 and District 3 is not the road, it is the subdivision boundary? There is no way to drive that is there? 26