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saying he's putting in a lot of money and he doesn't know what's going to happen. He might have to walls away from it next month. And it's not fair to him too. If he weren't doing anything I can see, yeah, you can play with that, but you know, he's trying to do something to (inaudible). So what is the long-term plan for that building? I think the answer is you want to do a master plan for that Banyan. And the next question I'm going to follow with that is what's happening with the master plan? Why isn't it being done? Is it fair to keep him hanging because of that? You could not get a master plan for another five years. You know, so I'm justanyway. That's just kind of like what kind of direction are we going to take to kind of resolve this situation? It's really not fair to him. HEIT: No, I understand and I agree with you. And that's why we have this month-to-month permit in place until we do make that determination, the master plan involves not just DLNR but also involves the County. So it's a joint effort, interagency effort that has to come up with this plan. Until we do come up with a plan, putting a long-term, another long-term disposition on the Banyan Drive area is going to change it so it's hard to, you know, kind of a catch-22 situation. TANIGUCHI: You know, I know one of the funding, the problems thatI understand one of the problems that DLNR has is funding. They can do the plan but they don't have the money to pay for it. Why can't we think a little differently, out of the box, what if we assess all of the lessees right not X-number of dollars so we can get this master plan done? So whether you're Naniloa who had just completed, Uncle Billy's who's nothing there, this guy, they all pay, contribute to do this master plan so we can get things going. The County doesn't have money either, but maybe the County can come up with a little bit to participate in that. But in other words, what, we cannot, if we just say we don't have the funds we're never going to do it. So is there a creative way that we could do it? HEIT: Just to clarify the, I think what you're referring to would be the Environmental Impact Statement? TANIGUCHI: Yeah. HEIT: Which is a component of the master plan, not the master plan itself. TANIGUCHI: Right. Yeah, okay, I'm sorry. HEIT: And not, yes, I agree, there's it's a funding issue that can be resolved. It just takes creative minds to come up with a solution for it. One that is, you know, one you just suggested, and I'll definitely bring that back to the powers that be within the department. TANIGUCHI: That would help and to at least to shake this thing loose and start moving. It seems like everybody's waiting for something else to happen. HEIT: I agree. Absolutely. TANIGUCHI: Nothing's going to—the first step gotta be that EIS, right? HEIT: Correct. Page 3 of 19 Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment Agency September 24,2018 Minutes