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So, what that meant in practice was refinements in some up front sections. Section 2 is the
<br />authority section, so you'll, I'll show you some of those here in a second. And, then, those same
<br />clarifications have implications for Policy 7, 39, and 93. Seven is the policy, map policy, and
<br />39I forget, it's also a land use related policy. I forget which one. The "shalls" and "should"
<br />are also a refinement in that they, we looked again very hard about the Planning Director's
<br />authority, and these two policies speak to both the Planning Director's and the Water Supply
<br />Department's authority to make decisions and decide that "shall" was a, was, could be implied
<br />to, you know, supersede somehow the authority that the Code otherwise gives the Planning
<br />Director or the Department of Water Supply. So the thought "should" was more appropriate.
<br />And, just so you know, I should have mentioned this earlier, we had a meeting with the Steering
<br />Committee a couple weeks ago to go through all of this, to review it, and so they're very aware
<br />of all of this. We walked through every one of the detailed revisions, and so they understand
<br />what was recommended and why. So, I'm sorry for the small print, but I did want to show you
<br />examples of what those meant, so Section 2 is the applicability section of the CDP which
<br />describes basically the authority of the CDP. And, so you'll see how those refinements are
<br />reflected here, so the best example is the addition of managing growth and the addition at the end
<br />of 2.1 there of the very specific language directly from the General Plan about what a CDP can
<br />do.
<br />And then 2.2 very importantly makes it clear that if there are direct conflicts that the General
<br />Plan shall be controlling. And, that, the Chapter 15 also explicitly permits the CDP's to
<br />recommend amendments to the General Plan and so it's very appropriate for there to be things in
<br />the CDP that are, that are different from the GP and for an action in the CDP to say, hey, we
<br />need to now go and amend the General Plan. And that's Policy 7, the land use policy map, and
<br />so you see again there the replacement of definitions with the word, "designations" `cause
<br />designations is what is used in the General Plan and also the addition of the language. This was
<br />assumed and understood. They thought it was helpful to make it crystal clear that this applies
<br />unless the CDP and the General Plan are in direct conflict.
<br />So—ah, great. So, now we're at the, in the adoption phase obviously at the Planning
<br />Commission meeting and what comes next then is tonight's meeting, as already been mentioned,
<br />a follow-up meeting on June 1st back in Hilo. And, just so the public understands, that's a
<br />regular meeting of the Planning Commission so there'll, there are other agenda items. Is that
<br />correct? [Secretary's Note: Ms. Hata-Finley nodded yes to Mr. Whitmore.] Yeah. And, that
<br />will be at 9 o'clock at the Aupuni Conference Center [sic] Room in Hilo. And, then you'll make
<br />your recommendations within the 60 -day window that you're given, and then it'll go to Council.
<br />They'll go through a similar process before they're making, making their final decisions.
<br />Okay, so, because you've received comment since receiving the Director's Backgrounds and
<br />Recommendations, we thought you'd find it helpful for us to cover those a little bit because
<br />and we wanted to handle this the same way we've handled all the public comment all along
<br />which is to help the decision -makers understand it in the context of the working draft we have
<br />before us, right?
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