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but it doesn’t look like the typical shopping center. Those buildings don’t all look like they were <br />built out of the same mold. <br /> <br />This, another example of what he’s proposing, and so this will be setting the example for other <br />developments in Pāhoa. We already have another applicant who is applying for rezoning that <br />has agreed to comply with the design guidelines voluntarily. Another developer that has already <br />gotten his, well he’s still in the process of getting his Building Permits to do a medical center just <br />on the edge of town. He’s voluntarily altered his plans already--his, his architectural plans to <br />comply with the design guidelines. <br /> <br />And that’s all I have. <br /> <br />MIYASATO: Okay, Commissioners, any questions? If not, we have Jon Olson. Could you <br />please raise your right hand? Do you swear and affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before <br />the Hawai‘i County Planning Commission? <br /> <br />OLSON: I do. <br /> <br />MIYASATO: Please state your name and residence. <br /> <br />OLSON: Jon Olson, 13-631 Leilani Avenue, Pāhoa 96778. This is close to home. I’m finally <br />here, only took 22 years. This started, and I’m speaking to the design district issues, with the <br />formation of Pāhoa Mainstreet that was created out of a Federal grant. We took the community <br />input, we did the surveys. The one thing that everyone who commented on, on the process had <br />to say was, preserve the Village. Mainstreet did another survey in 2000. The population had <br />nearly doubled. Everybody said preserve the Village. We started again in 2010, did the surveys. <br />The one thing that everybody agreed was however big the town became, preserve the Village. <br />That covers it, doesn’t it? That’s what this does finally and it creates it as a function that <br />government recognizes. Thank you. <br /> <br />MIYASATO: Any questions, Commissioners? Commissioner Henkel. <br /> <br />HENKEL: I’d like to disclose that I’ve known Jon for quite some time and that I recognize— <br /> <br />OLSON: --That’s risky, that’s risky—I give you deniability— <br /> <br />HENKEL: That it’s his, it’s his hard work and mana‘o that has you know kept the lower Puna <br />from you know becoming like a giant strip mall, and preserving what we have, and I think he <br />does deserve a great deal of recognition and then thanks. <br /> <br />OLSON: The secret is you keep saying it till they think it’s their idea. <br /> <br />MIYASATO: Thank you. <br /> <br />ONO: Question. <br /> <br />5 <br />EXHIBIT G <br /> <br /> <br />