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<br />PLANNING COMMISSION <br />COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I <br />MINUTES/HEARING TRANSCRIPT <br />JUNE 6, 2008 <br />A regularly advertised hearing on the PUNA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN <br />was called to order at 11:07 a.m. and at 4:12 p.m. in the County of Hawaii Aupuni Center <br />Conference Room, 101 Pauahia Street, Hilo, Hawaii, with Chairman Rodney Watanabe <br />presiding. <br />PRESENT: Rodney Watanabe ABSENT & EXCUSED: Andrew Iwashita <br /> C. Kimo Alameda <br /> Lani Bowman <br /> Takashi Domingo <br /> Alvin Rho <br /> Shelly Ogata <br /> René Siracusa <br /> Rell Woodward <br />Ivan Torigoe, Deputy Corporation Counsel <br />Christopher Yuen, Planning Director <br />Norman Hayashi, Staff Planner <br />Phyllis Fujimoto, Staff Planner <br />Jeff Darrow, Staff Planner <br />Larry Brown, Staff Planner <br />And approximately 40 people at 11:07 a.m. and 28 people at 4:12 p.m. <br /> 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 />WATANABE: Today the third agenda item really is, the applicant is Canor <br />Sumida. However, we do have a special request in place by the Kanaka Council. They <br />have a prior engagement that is scheduled for 2 o’clock with the Sustainability that they <br />need to attend, and I’ve already gotten permission from the representative of Mr. Sumida <br />to allow seven of these individuals to testify for the Puna Community Development Plan. <br />This is really a special condition, a special accommodation. So we’re going to ask <br />everyone to cooperate in this. And I’ve already talked to Kale Gumapac and they’ve <br />agreed that they will limit their testimony two minutes at the maximum. I understand <br />some of them probably will take only 30 seconds. By the same token, I’d also like to ask <br />the Commissioners for their cooperation in this; and this is really a time for the public to <br />be heard, so it’s not a time for us to be deliberating about the Puna Community <br />Development Plan. If you have questions so that you can fully understand the testifier’s <br /> EXHIBIT B <br />1 <br /> <br />