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CHR. SIRACUSA: That looks pretty compact. MR. MELROSE: That is all empty. That is Forest City and - - -If you go back to District 7, you can actually get all the way into the intersection of Palani and Queen Ka` ahumanu Highway without picking up another resident. Then you have it very easy to describe for Pat later on, it just goes from Palani down the highway. MR. KAHUI: As long as it keeps the Homestead community and Kealakehe kind of intact, and at the same time is not affecting our numbers. I am hoping you are okay with it because I am. MR. KANUHA: I just wanted to keep the whole of Kealakehe, not the whole ahupua`a, but Kealakehe Elementary, and the subdivision surrounding, and Kealakehe Intermediate and Kealakehe High School all connected into one. MR. KAHUI: I agree, and I think that is good. Those two are contiguous and having those communities together, I appreciate that. MR. MELROSE: One of the things I like about that is that I know you are on the Action Committee for the CDP; but that whole area has been where the bulk of your attention has been lately in terms of the connector road, and the development along the connector road. In some sense it is really hard to make it comparable to Waikoloa, but I think there a a big affordable housing project going in there in Waikoloa. All of this is part of a really dynamic district that could be represented very dynamically in a single voice, I think. MR. KAHUI: I think you are right. What is interesting though, is when we plan for growth, in 1998, we built the homesteads up here, which took us two years to build 225 homes. Today, from that time, it has taken us since 2000 to the present day to build 40 more units. So I'm not sure how fast a pace this type of growth - - -In light of the vision, in light of the planning that is going on, whether or not, given the economy, we are going to experience that kind of growth. So I like this current boundary, I think it speaks well to keeping those affordable housing units together, that kind of plan, that urban sector together. So I think it really meets that criteria, and many of the criteria that we set forth in our mission. CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you. At this point, I just received a note that Pete Hoffmann, who has been sitting in in Waimea; he would like to make a statement about Community Development Plans. Is that alright with everyone? Thank you, go ahead Pete, please. PETE HOFFMANN (At this time Councilman Pete Hoffmann came forward to address members of the Commission.) MR. HOFFMANN: Thank you, Rene, and thank you members of the Committee again. I don't mean to make any type of contradictory statement, but I did want to point out regarding the Community Development Plan, please remember that in this Redistricting process, the Community Development Plan has been an ongoing action by the Administration and County officials for about the last six years. It is extremely difficult to try to work a Community 35