2018-04-12 Hearing Transcript DRAFT- Hamakua CDP DRAFT NOTATION

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MORRISON: I'm not RAFFIPIY: —that really makes a lot of sense to them, but they're restricted. MORRISON: I'm not familiar with anything specifically. There are some policies in the CDP that do reflect the community's objectives and set forth future changes to be made, and so one of those policies could say, for example, the shoreline setback. It sets forth what the shoreline setback should be revised to but it doesn't revise it automatically. It tells the administration we need a change to be made. And, so I think that through that process, the community was able to find their way of communicating whatever objectives they wanted to make. It was just understanding where the authority lies, and so if they didn't have the authority, they were understanding that it could be asked of the administration or the County Council to make those changes. RAFFIPIY: Thank you. MORRISON: Sure. CLARKSON: I will point out that we have 13 people to testify, but the first person that will be testifying is Brad Kurokawa who is the chair of the Steering Committee, and I'm sure he can answer that question for you, whether there were things that, you know, they wanted to put in, but somehow felt they couldn't. But, if there are no further questions, we'll begin with public testimony. As I mentioned, there are 13 people so far signed up to testify. I'm going to be calling up four at a time and swearing you in. So, Brad, would you come up, please? And, Susan Forbes, David Longacre, and Akiko Masuda. Would you please raise your right hands? Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter before the Planning Commission today? TESTIFIERS: Yes/I do. CLARKSON: I'm going to ask you also to please speak into the microphone at all times, to first introduce yourself, your name and where you live, and then please proceed. And, I will ask Brad to go first. KUROKAWA: Okay, I'm Brad Kurokawa, and I am a Honomu resident, and I am the chair of the Hamakua CDP Steering Committee, and I'd like to thank all of you Commissioners for allowing us to testify in regards to the CDP, the draft CDP. And, I'd also like to thank my fellow community members for sticking with us during this process. It's been a long haul, and we appreciate people continuing to come out and support the process `cause I think it's been an invaluable one. So, you know, our community, our Hamakua community, has been on quite, as I mentioned, quite a journey since we began the community talk story sessions and that was back in September of 2009. And we're now, we see ourselves on the home stretch of the adoption process, and we are very, very eager to complete the process so that our community values and visions can be implemented. EXHIBIT A 8