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BANYAN DRIVE HAWAII REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY COUNTY OF HAWAII MINUTES February 27, 2019 The meeting of the Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment Agency was called to order at 2:03 p.m. in the County of Hawaii, Aupuni Center Conference Room, 101 Pauahi Street, Hilo, Hawaii, with Chairperson Brian DeLima presiding. MEMBERS PRESENT: Brian DeLima(Chairperson), Nathan Gaddis, K.T. Cannon-Eger MEMBERS ABSENT & EXCUSED: Elmer Gorospe and Barry Taniguchi ALSO PRESENT: Michael Yee (Planning Director), Amy Self(Deputy Corporation Counsel for the Agency), Jeffrey Darrow (Planning Division Manager), Alex Roy (Planner), Kim Tanaka (Secretary), Gordon Heit (DLNR Representative), Sue Lee Loy (Councilwoman) A quorum was present with three members in attendance. STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC There were approximately 6 members of the public in attendance. At 2:03 p.m. Chairman DeLima opened the floor to take statements from the public. DELIMA: Aloha everyone. We're here on, for the Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment Agency meeting. It is 2:03. We'll call the meeting to order. We have the, I don't know if we have a, do we have a supplemental addendum or anything? No. Okay, so we'll proceed to statements from the public. Is there any statements from the public? We'd like to call on Jon Bockrath to testify. Good afternoon Mr. Bockrath. BOCKRATH: Good afternoon. Good afternoon, I'm Jon Bockrath, owner of 21 Banyan Drive, Alii Ice Company. My written testimony, I believe you all have a copy of it. You'll note the date on there is October 31, 2018, that is when I had intended to give this testimony. The reason that's significant is because it was two years previous to that, almost to the day, that this body, this committee voted to move forward with this conceptual plan. There are some new members here that weren't here at the time. I've attended all but one of the board meetings since the board voted on October 26, 2016, to adopt the conceptual land use master plan, scenario 2. I reviewed the minutes of the meeting I missed. The total cumulative time spent discussing the fee-simple properties within the master plan area is less than five minutes. The adoption and implementation of the conceptual land use master plan allows the conversion of property held, private property held land from open zone to commercial zoning, thereby allowing the restrictions currently held to be reduced which will encourage growth and expansion of business. With business comes employment, and products, and services for our community. Employment generates income taxes, personal self-esteem, and independence; and business sales generate excise tax. All of which benefit the community. Page 1 of 15 Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment Agency February 27,2019 Minutes