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FROM COMMISSIONER DRU KANUHA • The Number One priority of the testifying public was to keep their communities together, and to not split them. Given the 4.99% maximum deviation passed by the Hawaii County council, this made it impossible. A more lenient 10% would have been more appropriate to keep communities of interest together. As these communities grow in the next decade, keeping communities of interest together will not be possible. • 1 will ditto everything commission chair Siracusa has stated on Communication 55.1 Boundry of District 7 and 6 • Census Block 150010214021012 is an elongated census block along the ocean that needs to be split up to not take up the entire shoreline of the area. • Starting at the ocean, District 7 boundary starts at Pa'aoao Bay heading east along the Hokuli'a subdivisions northern border (excluding Hokuli'a). Census Block 150010214021012(as written about earlier) made it impossible to keep Hokuli'a in District 7. If this census block was included in district 7 it would have split Kealakekua Bay state park, and this is not what members of the public or commissioners wanted to do. • The district 7 line then follows the Mamalahoa Bypass rd. south. Then the line went east, incorporating the community surrounding haleki'l street. We did not use Haleki'l st. as a southern boundary because it would have split a community surrounding this street. We followed the next census block south of this community and included it in to district 7. • The D7 -D6 line then goes north on Mamalahoa Highway. I did not want to use konawaena school road as the boundary between district 7 and 6 because it split the school in half. I wanted to keep the school whole. I took the line north towards the southern part of kainaliu and then followed an old road east. This line then followed census blocks to the summit of Mauna Loa. Boundry of District 7 and 8 • This boundary included all of the Kailua Village Business Improvement District(KVBID), except for those businesses east of Queen Ka'ahumanu Hwy. I did not want to split KVBID, neither did the testifying public. This is why it had to be in district 7. • It was crucial to put KVBID in District 7. If KVBID was in district 8 it would have split Kailua town right in half and that wasn't an option. I did not want to split this community. • District 7 includes all of the old Kona Airport because of its proximity to the town of Kailua. By including the old kona airport, the census block boundary was made on the old mamalahoa trail, from the ocean to queen ka'ahumanu Hwy. • Boundary follows Queen ka'ahumanu hwy, headed south • Aloha Kona subdivision and the Pines subdivision could not be included in District 7 based off of the 4.99% maximum deviation. If these subdivisions were included in District 7, District 8 would have been a -8.35% deviation. Based off of this, we had to