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discussion with the State. The Mayor has directed me to work with the leaseholder to get this MOU out and going so the County can allocate our resources. Basically what it is, is what testimony you heard today. It’s a clean-up of all the banyan trees. By the way, most of those banyan‒‒almost all of the banyan trees are within the County right-of-way. It’s not within the leasehold portion. Further to the Bayfront Trails component, their representative was with us on that walking audit so we got a better idea of what they’re thinking in terms of how they would implement some of their components. Let me see what else. DELIMA: I got some short questions. KANUHA: I think that’s about it. DELIMA: I think it’s important that everyone understands that the Naniloa lease which includes the golf course is a long lease. How many years is that lease? I know it’s‒‒ KANUHA: Fifty-five. DELIMA: Okay so quite frankly, unless there’s a memorandum of agreement by the leaseholder, none of the ideas of a convention or community project would be able to be done unless for some reason they default on their lease. So I think it’s important for the public to understand that having that land hold‒‒leaseholder cooperation is important in order to implement anything in the short term. The other thing I wanted to comment was if at all possible, I agree with Mr. Kubota about the idea of trying to, at least put as close to the shoreline as possible, the trail aspect of it because I think he hits the nail on the head by saying at least if you have it on your master plan that if at all possible they’ll try to implement it. KANUHA: Right, and that’s precisely the reason we left that green strip fronting all the properties over there. DELIMA: And then I like the idea of the common sense approach to the ice house and the HELCO property. Quite frankly, it needs to be viable in order for the land owner to be able to make use of their property. So I think that is a good solution for the long term aspect of it. I’m not certain what HELCO wants to do with it, and I’m not certain what the land owner for the ice house, but I think it’s important that the Planning Department engage in some discussions, but I like the concept of at least giving those land owners some value so that it doesn’t become blighted. If you don’t give them value, then it’s going to be blighted. I think that was rather ingenious to be frank. And Mr. Inouye asked a question about the‒‒originally the plan was where the Reed’s Bay Hotel all the way to Country Club would be just park. Now under this revision it’s condo, mixed use. So although they are all leases, the ability to have a condominium mixed use is still available for the present structures? Page 14 of 19 Banyan Drive Hawai‘i Redevelopment Agency September 28, 2016, Minutes