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<br />PLANNING COMMISSION <br />COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I <br />MINUTES/HEARING TRANSCRIPT <br />MAY 8, 2008 <br />A regularly advertised hearing on the PUNA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN <br />was called to order at 6:02 p.m. in the Cafetorium of the Keaau Middle School, 16-0565 <br />Pahoa Road, Keaau, Hawaii, with Chairman Rodney Watanabe presiding. <br />PRESENT: Rodney Watanabe ABSENT & EXCUSED: C. Kimo Alameda <br /> Lani Bowman Takashi Domingo <br /> Andrew Iwashita Alvin Rho <br /> Shelly Ogata <br /> Rene’ Siracusa <br /> Rell Woodward <br />Ivan Torigoe, Deputy Corporation Counsel <br />Christopher Yuen, Planning Director <br />Norman Hayashi, Staff Planner <br />Jeff Darrow, Staff Planner <br />Larry Brown, Staff Planner <br />And approximately 49 people from the public in attendance <br />PUNA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN <br />Review of the draft Puna Community Development Plan submitted by the Puna <br />Community Development Plan Steering Committee and its Consultant, PlanPacific, Inc. <br />The Chair introduced the Commissioners and staff to Members of the public. <br />WATANABE: The single agenda item for this particular meeting is the first <br />Planning Commission review of the Puna Community Development Plan. Maybe what <br />we can do is sort of outline how we plan to proceed with this presentation. We were <br />planning to have Mr. Larry Brown, Mr. John Whalen who’s the principal consultant, and <br />Jon Olson who is the chair of the Steering Committee provide their presentation of their <br />draft Puna Community Development Plan. And then we’ll allow the Commissioners to <br />query these individuals as to anything they might have, any questions. But we also <br />realize that there are number of people from the public who would like to testify and we <br />don’t want to keep you waiting so we’ll probably you know, just briefly touch on the <br />query; and the Commissioners will have an opportunity after public testimony to further <br />query the presenters. With that I believe I have Mr. Larry Brown and John Whalen here. <br />Is Mr. Olson available? Oh, you may have a seat also then. I believe we’re going to start <br />off with Mr. Brown. <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />