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discussed the goal - setting process and asked clarifying questions about different items on the list. They discussed turning these aspirational goals into action items that they could work toward. Committee Member Payne expressed frustration about the County not compiling annual action statements to summarize work by the Action Committee. A f f o r d a b l e H o u s i n g Chair Young mentioned the July 9 Trib une - Herald ar aloa park being approved along the bypass. He asked how this could be applied to their aspiration of cr eating more affordable housing. Committee Member Rivera mentioned the importance of encouraging State/private collaboration. He s aid t hat obtaining state - owned land can help keep costs at a feasible level for affordable housing developers . Staff Surprenant mentioned that HICDC Kaloko Heights on Hina Lani was mov ing forward and that they are on the way to solving the issues that they had experienced with connecting to the Kealakehe sewer. Nancy Pisicchio mentioned the Village 9 affordable housing development along Kealakehe Parkway, Committee Member David brought up the work o f the CDP Amendment Subcommittee to understand cy HSG - 5.1. She also suggested an update on the current state of affordable housing issues in order to understand what needs to be done. She suggested having experts on the matter share this information and answer questions. A community member brought up that there are different levels of criteria for what is considered affordable and emphasized the importance of workforce housing . He additionally stated that identifying practical land for affordable housing projects is critical. Staff Surprenant explained that there is no affordable housing plan for the island but that one is desperately needed. Nancy Pisicchio suggested revisiti ng the housing goals in the CDP . S he expressed that in light of the Puna disaster there is a lot of push from the administration to create more affordable housing efforts . She explained that those efforts may include increased incentives through legislatio n . Committee Member Payne stated that the Kona CDP calls for an affordable housing nonprofit to be created to work with county and state to identify viable lands. He suggested creating a subcommittee to look into the feasibility of creating such a non - pro fit. Committee Member Rivera explained that an affordable housing project generally has t o be in the form of a larger overall Planned Unit Development [PUD] or Transit Oriented Development [ TOD ] type project; t his is because it is hard for a developer to a fford all the roadways and utilities required if they are only constructing affordable housing. The Action Committee discussed various affordable housing projects around the Kona area. They asked for a general update on affordable housing to try to determi ne if they could create a subcommittee to work on this, one idea was to invite a speaker to a future AC meeting. www.hiplanningdept.com kona@hawaiicounty.gov Page 3