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DELIMA: Any other questions? I just had one for the, Chair Case. Before we were able to, <br /> when we got appointed to undertake the roll of the redevelopment agency,the Planning <br /> Department came up with this conceptual plan,we put it out to public hearing,we've made <br /> significant revisions from the first concept to what we've finally adopted, mainly due to <br /> public input, some of which came from people who have apartments that were initially <br /> designated to be open areas. There's legislation right now that contemplates a larger <br /> redevelopment agency encompassing other state lands and it appears to make sense. From <br /> our point of view,we want to facilitate action. And our focus is the Banyan Drive area. Has <br /> the Department taken a position on the State Legislation? <br /> CASE: We submitted comments to all of the,we didn't take a position; we submitted <br /> comments on the various legislative pieces. There is one of this being heard this afternoon in <br /> the Finance Committee. And we put in a paragraph in the front highlighting the fact that we <br /> formally committed with the County to work with you folks on a redevelopment process a <br /> year ago, and so if this bill were to go through,they'd want to either carve out Banyan Drive <br /> and this process continues, or expressly preempt the County process, or whatever because I <br /> don't think you can do both. I think you gotta go one way or the other. We didn't take a <br /> position,but we did note that we committed to work with you guys, and so we'll just see <br /> what happens with the legislation. <br /> DELIMA: The thought is that we had planned to have on our agenda today a discussion of <br /> the idea of doing an environmental assessment. We don't have those funds within the <br /> County's budget right now because the redevelopment agency was not a line item for this <br /> fiscal year. And the thought was, at first,before the State Legislation was proposed that we <br /> would get into,try to facilitate the environmental assessment process in order to make it more <br /> attractive to potential investors. Does the Department have funds to facilitate that type of <br /> CASE: No. <br /> DELIMA: Well, I thought I had to ask though. <br /> CASE: Yeah. <br /> ROEHRIG: If we get funds we'll be happy to delegate them though. <br /> CASE: Yeah. <br /> DELIMA: Well, Mr. Roehrig I'm going to call you in a second and you can have the floor, <br /> so <br /> CASE: Yeah,but I mean,that is the rub,right? It's,this is going to cost some money and <br /> where's that money going to come from? And so,you know, does it come from government <br /> or does it come from private industry? Does it come from County or State?You don't get a <br /> redeveloped area without somebody making significant investment in it. <br /> DELIMA: The good thing is that there's a plan, and the plan was supported and voted upon <br /> by an agency that both the State and the County invested in. The County is undergoing a <br /> General Plan amendment and some of the changes that we designated would require some <br /> General Plan changes, and hopefully we can at least encourage our Planning Director and the <br /> Page 3 of 18 <br /> Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment Agency <br /> February 22,2017,Minutes <br />