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vehicular access, some kind of a turn-around in here. Again, this was based on Lihiwai being open, right, so you have some choices there. Doing something with this section would allow more integration between the park and anything else they may want to do on the inside. So there’s some circulation alternatives there. Another one was to perhaps look at taking a new road from here into the convention center area as another alternative. So those are the kinds of things we’ll be looking at down the road. TANIGUCHI: Just curious, you know the new hotel? Has thought been given to locating that hotel not on the Bayfront side, but inside, where sort of like if you had to measure back-to-back to where Seaside is, and use that side of the park as being‒‒it wouldn’t be resort hotel in the sense that you’d have a waterfront property and all that, but you can put affordable rental properties for comm‒‒you know, interisland travel, for locals, as well as make the connecting road across the park somewhere, connecting to Lihiwai on this Banyan Drive on the other side. So cut across, use the parking for the center, cultural center. You can do commercial areas along those too. You know, smaller commercial areas and tie in with the walking. People can walk and shop, and stuff. KANUHA: Yup. DELIMA: Any other comments? Mary. BEGIER: I was curious about taking the park, the new park they’re just building right now, the one on the mauka side of Kam‒‒ KANUHA: Right there? BEGIER: ‒‒yes. And that being a hotel site for the, you know, more the travel lodge‒‒yeah, the local component. Then you’d have all that space open to work with. KAHUHA: Okay. DELIMA: Any other comments? I got a few. I like the acknowledgement that the park‒‒the hotel next to Lili‘uokalani Park is not something that most people think is a good idea. Even going out the community, most people that know that I sit on this agency have commented to me that they think it’s a bad idea. So, I think that’s kind of a consensus. And I’m glad to hear that there’s support for exploring what that harbor side of the peninsula would look like in terms of a mixed use. For me, you know when I read about other agencies and other states that have much greater responsibilities in terms of coming up with plans, they tend to try to get consultants or people who are in the business of trying to solicit and determine interest in regards to possible developers. Like for example, if we’re looking at that area for condominium development or perhaps some type of senior citizen housing, mixed use commercial, I’m wondering whether we really‒‒because I agree with Mr. Inouye there is, that’s a million dollar view. I think Page 10 of 20 Banyan Drive Hawai‘i Redevelopment Agency July 28, 2016 Minutes