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year is whether or not the General Plan amendments to implement the Master Plan is going to be initiated by the Department because when you look at resources and Planning's continued support of the Agency, I'm inquiring whether or not the Department is planning to initiate General Plan amendments. So, I think under this agenda item that can be asked. We're not going to take action today, but I think that language of that agenda item is covered. YEE: Okay. I don't know at this point in time exactly what kind of amendments I would be looking at. DELIMA: Okay. YEE: I do know from the aspect that the work of, of this Agency—you know, you've done some work, and it was good work. And, so if there are things there that should float up to the General Plan, it would make sense to take a look at that. Just because there's no funding or anything, I wouldn't just throw away the work that you've done and the conceptual things that you have created to this point. DELIMA: Because there are some General Plan amendment require—the General Plan would have to be amended to implement some of the proposals in the action. And, the other, the other thing I think that we could include as an effort and direction in the upcoming year is to determine whether the new Planning Director and the new administration would want to propose refinements or changes to the plan that was adopted because there may be different perspectives. People may have been able to chew on the plan and come up with other ideas and suggestions. I was at a meeting where there was a discussion about the fact that in the Banyan Drive area, peninsula, although we have beach parks, Coconut Island, there are no facilities for little children to play. There's no playground. And, there are no other, there are no activities for teenagers or older children. So,perhaps present landowners may want to tweak the plan that we had proposed, and then there were some other discussions about the use of the golf course. So, I think one of the opportunities in this upcoming fiscal year is that we not get totally weighted to what was adopted but we open minded to new insights or suggestions from the general public, the leaseholders, the owners of particular parcels and, you know, the Department and other planners. So, I think that would be a good opportunity. YEE: So, right now, we're in the part of the General Plan update where we're going out to a lot, to the CDP action committees and working with them on feedback on General Plan changes. Given that there's not a CDP for Hilo, you know, we're figuring out how to solicit that, the comments from Hilo regarding the changes that need to float up. And, so, we're in the process of that. Note that the General Plan update, you know you know, we're targeting probably like Spring of 2018, so we're right in the right point of time to start engaging with the community to be able to kind of float ideas up. DELIMA: And, I think that would fit into the limited amount of money that can be funded within the budget for the, you know, Blue Zone recommendations, so we can understand what are the Blue Zone recommendations, you know. What exactly would a cultural study involve, and perhaps a further discussion about other opportunities in the area. So I think, I think as we put this item on a future agenda that we should be open minded about making revisions that have Page 6 of 8 Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment Agency May 31,2017 Minutes