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show the Banyan Drive realignment essentially on the inside of the hotel, or the hotel expansion area. Finally, we also included in this portion Lihiwai, just in the connectivity. We tried to show some of the existing connectivity there. It does identify it; we’re not picking a mode of transportation that’s appropriate for it, we’re just identifying where it falls on the map. We have the resort‒‒we’re calling it a resort expansion node, we’re essentially identifying that if the need for transient accommodations is greater than could be filled in this kind of primary resort node that this could be an area that would be appropriate for expansion. We’re calling this area right here, this side on the mauka side of Banyan Drive, we have it labeled as resort expansion. We do identify this top portion here, so again we’re‒‒it captures Hilo Hawaiian, Naniloa, the Uncle Billy’s Pagoda property, as well as the privately owned parcel on the right hand side of Naniloa. We identify this as kind of the primary resort, being that it is where the existing resort occurs, and what we have here is that if there is a need for more rooms than can be fit into this area, then this could be a logical place for an expansion of such use. So that’s what that resort expansion is. We do have again, we did initially‒‒the Uncle Billy’s portion was in the first version showed it as a park; this version shows the continuing resort mixed use capturing that property as well, as well as some frontage commercial. This is in recognition of the commercial type uses that exist in front of Hilo Hawaiian right now. This star right here identifies‒‒because it was not on the first one, that commercial frontage again. There’s‒‒if you look at Banyan Drive here, there’s some small commercial type uses and structures that kind of front the road there, and so we acknowledge that as being commercial. We did constrain the size of the community cultural center a bit. We do show that it may have‒‒there’s no set design on it or anything, but we did kind of reduce that size to make it a little bit more in-scale with the size of the peninsula and the size of the other developments. We constrained the size of the commercial that was fronting Kamehameha Avenue. The first version showed more commercial along the front side over here. Where we have tentatively drew a line right there is the old entrance of into Waiākea Town; there’s still a remnant road there and so we showed this commercial kind of fronting, mostly on Banyan Drive and a small portion along Kamehameha Avenue. And finally we show the movement there of Pier 5 to its location as identified in the Harbor’s master plan. At this time Mr. Mead called upon Director Kanuha to provide clarification for the changes. KANUHA: Thank you Luke. You folks have any questions about the proposed changes, I’ll be happy to answer that. GOROSPE: I do. What happened to those private properties ‒‒with this plan here? What’s going to happen with the private properties? KANUHA: They get integrated into the plan by either uses, and as you can see, most of them are integrated for some type of use, assuming that this is the version that the Agency chooses to adopt. But what I want to mention to the Agency is that, as you know, we had to cancel your last meeting because of the storm threat, but what happens Page 12 of 19 Banyan Drive Hawai‘i Redevelopment Agency September 28, 2016, Minutes