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Mr. Mead reviewed the original conceptual land use plan at this time. MEAD: So after our meetings and our consultations, we had a couple changes that we’re proposing that we were going to execute for the revised conceptual plan. The first was being to remove the hotel from the location in the gardens. After talking with some of the people who were really concerned about the hotel in the gardens, what it was is the reason that the hotel was located here, I think it was misunderstood that the hotel was going in the existing Lili‘uokalani gardens. It was actually a realignment of the road, to put the road makai. So this actually, here, what was not so obvious was a realignment of Banyan Drive. The next step was to expand this resort node between Naniloa and Hilo Hawaiian to retain the resort mixed use for existing resort and residential areas, to at least provide that as an option. Move the location of the new ship terminal to a location identified in the harbor’s master plan, which is moved over to the right hand side, towards Keaukaha, and to constrain the size of this community cultural center. Here, it’s quite a large mass and so trying to, kind of, putting some limits on it was also a recommendation, and of course to include Lihiwai. It was left out here; Lihiwai is the road, right now vehicular, that runs along or through the outside there of the gardens. And lastly, what I mentioned earlier, was removing the Ken’s House of Pancakes corner from the plan as it’s not part of the redevelopment. With the inclusion of the resort bubble here, we got rid of the kai pool or removed it from the plan. Mr. Mead continued the presentation, reviewing the revised conceptual land use plan. He provided two scenarios. The main difference in the scenarios is the extension of the primary resort node which encompasses the area to the east, currently occupied by the smaller hotel/mixed use condo uses. The first scenario shows open park space, the second scenario shows the expansion of the primary resort use. MEAD: So what I’ll highlight now are some of the changes between the two plans. There’s ten major changes that we should acknowledge. The first being the removal there, that yellow star’s the Ken’s block that was removed from the old plan. We also acknowledge instead of having it as proposed park space, anyone who’s driven by it now sees the extent of it’s‒‒how it’s progressing, so it’s coming along quite quickly, and so we just acknowledge that as the Kuawa Sports Fields development. We don’t put it in there as proposed anymore; it’s essentially existing. On the commercial node that was on the mauka side of Lihiwai‒‒you can see that the old map had a commercial node extending all the way up to Kamehameha on the mauka side of Lihiwai. So we did remove that, and we instead included this kind of mixed commercial node which includes the existing ice house, the existing HELCO station, as well as going up and capturing kind of the Hilo Bay Café, so kind of keeping these uses here, identifying them as commercial. The next change was we no longer showed Banyan Drive in this version as being realigned. So the existing flow of Banyan Drive, or the existing layout of Banyan Drive, comes on this side right over here and you can see that it runs this way all the way through‒‒here’s Banyan Way that connects right by Ice Pond. So the‒‒originally it did Page 11 of 19 Banyan Drive Hawai‘i Redevelopment Agency September 28, 2016, Minutes