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Hakalau Point is recommend a change to Open, has absolutely no impact whatsoever on permitted uses for Hakalau Point and certainly — also not for any Special Management Area permit that may be submitted for that Point. That being said, if the General Plan were amended, then there might be an issue, but the CDP does not amend the General Plan. So, the CDP, on adoption, if adopted as written, will have no impact on the permitted uses of the current landowner or of an SMA application if that landowner wanted to submit. And I should emphasize that the Planning Director recently has put this in writing to the landowner in response to a specific request for clarification on that point, okay. 1'll be happy to answer any additional questions about these points, but we've said this all before but we're reiterating it right now because it's been raised again recently in the Press, raising people's questions and concerns once again, okay. So, that being said, a CDP does not — it is not within the scope of the CDP to make specific fine-tuned site-specific plans for projects. We've heard in testimony at different points, people have specific proposals for different sites but that's well outside the scope of the General Plan. Those sorts of negotiations are done at the level of Change of Zone, or a very site-specific project, specific types of permit applications and that's outside the scope of the CDP. And, that relates also to the role of the Steering Committee — it's not your role — you're not a regulatory committee. You're an advisory committepresenting recommendations to the County for a plan that best achieves the communities' objectives. The CDPs are not regulatory plans in the sense that they say yay or nay to a particular project, they provide guidance for preferred future uses, okay. And I say that in part to the, Steering Committee because you don't need to feel this burden that you're making a decision tonight or any other time about yes or no on a particular project or proposal. You're simply conveying through policies and through land use guide maps what the preferred future use for different areas in a planning code. Then finally, 1 just want to reiterate the steps from here because there's been some confusion about that as well. So, the agenda item tonight is for the Steering Committee to make a formal and final recommendation to approve the CDP that's revised — it's a revised version of what was presented for community review back in January, alright. And, there are many more steps to follow through the CDP adoption process, all of which provide an opportunity for further comment from the public and other stakeholders, right. So then, if it takes the action tonight, the Steering Committee will be putting forth a recommended CDP, which then goes to the County and it'll go through agency reviews. It's going to go out to State, Federal agencies, County agencies, including the County's attorneys, the Corporation Counsel which has weighed in on critical issues so far, where we stopped and look at the whole thing comprehensively and asked again the question, is everything in this recommended CDP legal? Is it appropriate? So, it'll go through that review. Then, it'll get to the Director's desk where he will review all that agency comment, look at the CDP itself and then make recommendations to the Windward Planning Commission. The Planning Commission has public hearings where the public can again weigh in. They make their own recommendations to Council which again has public hearings and they make the final call. However, if the Steering — if the County Council does consider any substantive changes in the CDP, it comes back to the Steering Committee and to the Planning Commission again for —before they make their final decision. Okay, so 1 share this just to emphasize, this is not the end of the process. This is really the end of a phase in the planning process and the beginning of the next phase which is the adoption process, followed then by the implementation phase which will be covered a bit later in the evening as well. So Page 14