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DELIMA: Because I would not—because we had several public hearings and so on, I would not, I would think that we would want to at least move on because the General Plan is just a general plan, it's not building permits,it's not—it's to put into our, I guess, our seminal document what we envision for this particular area. So that if people are going to undertake an investment, that they know that it's part that it's consistent with the General Plan. Otherwise,why would you undertake the studies etcetera,because the thing that takes the longest is the General Plan amendment, and general plan amendments, if it's Planning Director initiated, it has less onerous obstacles in order to be implemented versus a council initiated or commission initiated general plan amendments. There's a lot of benefits in being a director-initiated plan amendment. ARAI: No, and I do tend to agree because a lot of weight is placed on the Director's recommendation and guidance. DELIMA: And this, this plan,was your guys' plan. ARAI: Right. DELIMA: So. ARAI: Well, that being all said,which is why I think in foresight, even though the environmental review process may not be completed ahead of the General Plan adoption, and that remains to be seen,the Department will try to provide flexibility. Meaning what is ultimately designated for Banyan Drive, and again we are talking it's a general plan; it's not going to set land uses on the ground. So we're going to make sure that the framework of the General Plan will provide the necessary flexibility so whatever is ultimately decided by the Agency can be, can remain consistent with the overall policy direction for this particular area. DELIMA: From my perspective,the General Plan, we gotta move on the General Plan otherwise we're not facilitating economic development for this area. Once our conceptual plan is in line with the General Plan, and the only way it can be aligned is that the General Plan is amended then other things can come into play. And that's,unless the State's going to preempt everything, I think that's a fifty- fifty proposition at this point. Well anyway,thank you. Anybody have any questions based on the questions I asked or anything else? Okay, thank you very much. Do you have anything else to add? MEAD: No, no, I don't have anything else to add. If there's no more questions regarding the conceptual land use master plan,we can move forward onto the next agenda item. DELIMA: The only other question I had before I came in today was what was the ballpark figure for the environmental assessment? MEAD: We have budgeted, I think, 500?Yeah, I think we've budgeted $500,000. DELIMA: Okay, I guess we're not going to pass the hat for that, so okay. We'll move on to our next agenda item then. At this time Chairman DeLima directed the Agency to the second Business of Agency agenda item. Page 10 of 18 Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment Agency February 22,2017,Minutes