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ARAI: Sorry, Daryn Arai, Deputy Director. City of Hilo has a height limit of, I think for resorts zone air is 120 feet. ONISHL Okay, so again, my question to the Department is, as you're developing this RFI, who's going to be providing in this RFI, you know, these types of limitations or issues that the developer would have to consider to do their plan? Or is it going to be left up to the developer to go do his due diligence and go through all of the Depart the County's departments and agencies, and all of the State's departments and agencies to find out what are the requirements and limitations on development of that area near the shoreline? CASE: So, okay. I guess the way this would work be somebody would submit a concept and hopefully would submit it with the current County requirements in mind, but the Redevelopment Agency may have broader powers to allow some flexibility there. So, the way I would imagine it would work is we would put this out there, if we got ideas, they would come and we would share `um with the County, with this agency and review `um. I mean, you know, we're that's the part where we don't want to be in the lead on deciding what's a great idea and what's not. Russell has something to add. ONISHL But okay. But you're eventually gonna be the decision-maker on which proposal to accept. Am I correct? TSUJI: Let me back up. This is a Request For Information, and just to seek out whether there's any interest. It is non-binding and it doesn't give any party any right to anything at all, and it can actually be canceled. It's just to seek out; here's an idea that we had, whether anyone is interested in taking on the actual demolition of the shoreline property and then rebuilding and then, and asking them in specifically what kind of, what kind of terms and conditions or concessions, I should say very frankly, would you need and I would expect them to have their financial plan, possibly at least a conceptual one, that would indicate certain concessions would need to be made, much of which may not be within the authority of the Land Board, but actually within the authority of the County. And that's where my, what we're thinking, is we'd have to work very closely with the Redevelopment Agency who has even broader powers than the County Planning Department, if this body and everyone else was agreeable. ONISHL Okay. DELIMA: Bottom line the board is—the Board has to approve. That's the bottom line. TSUJI: The disposition, yeah. CASE: It's a disposition. DELIMA: Disposition of the land. CASE: If the disposition lease or whatever disposition, that's what we have to approve. DELIMA: The Agency has not been delegated authority to do approval by the Board. The Board, the Land and Natural Resources still has the final authority on State Lands. Page 16 of 21 Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment Agency October 25,2017 Minutes