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show the public what it was of the Hawaiian's as a very huge part of their fish gathering history,
<br /> and which we as mankind going with the (inaudible) everything else, but that's all going to be
<br /> restored. They're doing a bang-up job of it, and literally if you saw the plans it's gonna be not
<br /> just clean, it's gonna be, you know, clean, repaired, restore, the whole Wailoa park area. Again,
<br /> look at it in whole, take a look at what the State and County are doing on cleaning the canal area.
<br /> I think itI told them recently, I have never seen it up kept as beautiful as it is today. Now,
<br /> back to specifically Banyan Drive, we need help, obviously, in just trimming those trees. I don't
<br /> want to come here and cry about money, but that's what it's all about. We would like to
<br /> expedite the development of Banyan Drive. We are doing what we can to ensure, in regards to
<br /> our share, responsibility of inspections. I have talked to the owner oh my goodness I forgot his
<br /> name that owns that one acre parcel between the Country Club and Naniloa. It's a weird
<br /> development because the swimming pool is half theirs and half theirs kind of thing of the old
<br /> style days just do what—etcetera. But that whole area is like that, as you can see the frontage of
<br /> the old steak and grill place. It's all dilapidated and has to be torn down too. And in talking to
<br /> the owner they're very anxious, you know, to develop it, and they will develop it as soon as
<br /> certain things are done. They're very, very excited, to tell you the truth, in regards to
<br /> information of people. I shouldn't mention in type of development to make—you have a nice
<br /> Naniloa, you have a very nice Hilo Hawaiian Hotel, then you have developers for a motel-type. I
<br /> don't like the word"motel-type,"but I think you know what I mean. For business, middle-class
<br /> type of people. It fits just right. Our task now is to make sure that we help in any way we can to
<br /> the demolition and replacement of Uncle Billy's. The plan is to let them continue to use the
<br /> store with the emergency repairs so it does not violate the fire department's concern of fire, and
<br /> that is being done. Our goal is to work with the State in the timing in regards to Country Club.
<br /> The Country Club is in a very serious state of disrepair. I don't have any expertise in it, but from
<br /> what I read, it's not worth so called restoration and it should be demolished but there's a problem
<br /> of all the tenants, especially a lot of them are Section 8-type individuals. But we would like to
<br /> work with the State,you know, in regards to how we do it and when we do it. And to make
<br /> those lots available for people to come in and bid on it. Our role, our responsibility to you sir,
<br /> and members of the Redevelopment Board, is to expedite it. And if you ask me, you know, what
<br /> is my preference, and this not going be very popular, but if you understand the goal is to expedite
<br /> it, I really believe that if placed under control of the County government, you know we can move
<br /> faster in certain kind of things that needs to be done. I don't think any of it contradicts what you
<br /> people want of the area. Again, our goal is to expedite and do what we can to work with the
<br /> State and a private agency to get that done.
<br /> DELIMA: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Councilwoman?
<br /> LEE LOY: Thank you, Mr. DeLima. I want to spring board a little bit about the RFP process
<br /> that you folks talked about, and I really see that as a huge opportunity. I've been involved with
<br /> Planning for a very long time and what I think is extremely valuable is something you expressed
<br /> earlier with the General Plan, and using the General Plan to provide zoning in specific areas. I
<br /> think that opportunity, if the County were to do the zoning, you know for the commercial, you
<br /> know we'll start with something low-hanging like the commercial, where if the County took on
<br /> that role and provided the zoning where a developer didn't run the risk of trying to run a zoning
<br /> application through the process and being strapped with a number of conditions of approval,
<br /> would incentivize people to come in and possibly take on developing the commercial areas.
<br /> From that I see opportunities where we would be able to generate real property tax revenues and
<br /> other revenues which then could build into the bigger piece of the larger redevelopment of the
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