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blighted designation actually encompasses a couple of these properties on the mauka side of
<br /> Kamehameha Avenue, this one is limited to the peninsula proper.
<br /> And finally,this is the one that's a little different. All of the other bills deal with Hawaii
<br /> Revised Statutes Chapter 171, and House Bill 1479 and companion Senate Bill 1292, also
<br /> unlike the others,both of these are moving forward. This title is relating to the Hilo
<br /> Community Economic District, and this actually proposes changes to another Hawaii
<br /> Revised Statute, 206E,which is the Hawaii Community Development Authority. And what
<br /> it does is it would place public lands, or the lands that are being managed by DLNR, into this
<br /> Hawaii Community Development Authority. Again, the identified problem is the same, it is
<br /> that the fact that many public lands kind of face uncertain futures due to their abilities to
<br /> secure these leases. And so in this case, it would put management of these lands,these public
<br /> lands,under the Hawaii Community Development Authority; it would write in a new section
<br /> of legislation. There are, HCDA actually has three development authorities. All of them are
<br /> on Oahu; there's Kaka`ako, there's Kalaeloa, and there is He`eia. This would make the first
<br /> one outside of Oahu, and it would be here in the Hilo Community Economic Development
<br /> District. This one is actually quite a bit more substantial than the Banyan Drive area.
<br /> Mr. Mead briefly pointed out the affected locations; the peninsula, Banyan Drive,the airport,
<br /> Maka`ala Street, Railroad Avenue, the industrial area, Waiakea Pond, Bayfront, and the lighthouse.
<br /> MEAD: So it's a much more substantial area; don't take this as 100 percent accurate, I tried
<br /> to get as best I could based off of the written description of the boundaries of the district. I
<br /> didn't have, I wasn't able to secure it on time right now,but this is where we're at. It's pretty
<br /> hard to follow on the written side of it. Talking about where we're at on this, 1479, so
<br /> remember there's two bills; there's a House Bill 1479,there's a Senate Bill 1292. Both of
<br /> them have taken a little bit different tracks. The biggest change is,that we can see, is dealing
<br /> with the Senate Bill 1292,the County has put in some testimony regarding, on all of these
<br /> bills,regarding the maintenance of some home rule. That essentially addresses that the
<br /> Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment Agency has put a lot of planning effort into certain
<br /> areas within these proposed regions as well, so one of them, Senate Bill 1292 does identify
<br /> more community members and it does sunset, does give a 20-year sunset on the HCDA for
<br /> the Hilo side of it, and includes members, I think, six members of the community onto that
<br /> board. So that's kind of where we're at here.
<br /> So there's a lot of action going on, and we've been actually, it's come up pretty rapidly since
<br /> the last meeting. We've been trying to follow this as best as we can and what we're looking
<br /> for now,the options that we have,understanding that these bills are may or may not go
<br /> through and that you may or may not choose to support them via testimony. We kind of have
<br /> some options here; one of them is letting the legislative process see itself through without
<br /> testimony submitted by the Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment Agency, another is to
<br /> request the Office of the Mayor to provide testimony representing the community and
<br /> BDHRA's position, or option three where you could speak specifically to these individual
<br /> bills, again individually or collectively, and direct planning staff to draft testimony on your
<br /> behalf for any of these bills or all of these bills, and transmit possibly through the Office of
<br /> the Mayor. And so really what we're looking for now is direction based on your review of the
<br /> bills and your understanding of the community and the testimony you've heard on where
<br /> you'd like to see us, or how we can support you in moving forward.
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