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<br />there’s unanimous agreement that much more needs to be done in a coordinated way. <br />There’s a lot of land there and we need to make the best use to complement the tourist <br />experience as well as the local experience, and have amenities that will serve all of us in a <br />tasteful and culturally sensitive way. I got more specific ideas, but I know some of them <br />are really too far out to mention in public without vetting them between‒‒but there have <br />been suggestions by others about the‒‒what’s possibly could complement the tourist, the <br />people who are coming in on ships and would be so close to give them a positive <br />experience by going to the Banyan Drive and hopefully we can build on that. <br /> <br />Duane we’ll give you the last word. <br /> <br />KANUHA: Yeah, sure. I think what’s really cool about this particular component is that <br />all of you know we’re into a lot of Downtown multi-modal planning and then we have <br />the Bayfront Trails component coming in, so it’s‒‒Banyan Drive in and of itself is <br />actually this component of a larger smart-growth transpo‒‒I mean pedestrian interaction <br />network that we’re all into at this particular point in time. I think we all know that <br />depending upon what kind of economic revitalization something like this agency can put <br />together then it leads the other components, right, increased airline capacity, for that <br />purpose. The State is actually moving toward the process of relocating the cruise ship <br />terminals closer to the Banyan Drive area. So there’s all these linkages that can be <br />created. Each one of them has its own component to them but together, when you look at <br />it together, it gets to be really a‒‒really just a neat package for all of East Hawai‘i. <br />That’s how we’re looking at it, from that standpoint besides the specific components of <br />Banyan Drive. <br /> <br />DELIMA: Okay, anyone else wants to say anything? Okay then, if there’s no objection <br />we’ll stand adjourned. Reconvene on June 22 at 10:00 a.m. Thank you very much. <br /> <br />Meeting adjourned at 2:54 p.m. <br /> <br />Respectfully submitted, <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Kim L. Tanaka, Secretary <br /> <br />ATTEST: <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Brian DeLima, Chairperson <br />Banyan Drive Hawai‘i Redevelopment Agency <br />Page 12 <br /> <br />