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<br />PLANNING COMMISSION <br />COUNTY OF HAWAII <br />HEARING TRANSCRIPT <br />NOVEMBER 1, 2006 <br />A regularly advertised hearing on the COUNTY COUNCIL€S DRAFT ORDINANCE <br />REGARDING THE GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT PROCEDURE was called to order at <br />11:06 a.m. in the County of Hawaii, Aupuni Center Conference Room, 101 Pauahi Street, Hilo, <br />ST <br />Hawaii with 1 Vice-Chairman Bill Graham presiding. <br />PRESENT:Bill GrahamABSENT & EXCUSED: C. Kimo Alameda <br />Fred Galdones Jeffrey McCall <br />Andrew Iwashita <br />Alvin Rho <br />Allen Salavea <br />Rene€ Siracusa <br />Rodney Watanabe <br />Ivan Torigoe, Deputy Corporation Counsel <br />Christopher Yuen, Planning Director <br />Norman Hayashi, Planning Program Manager <br />PhyllisFujimoto,StaffPlanner <br />Jeff Darrow, Staff Planner <br />And 4 people from the public in attendance. <br />INITIATOR: COUNTY COUNCIL <br />Review and comment on a draft ordinance regarding the General Plan amendment procedure. <br />GRAHAM:Next item on our agenda today is Unfinished Business, is review and <br />comment on a draft ordinance regarding the General Plan amendment procedure. This was <br />initiated by the County Council and presented to us by the Planning Director. And we discussed <br />this at our last hearing in Kona, which was very recent. If there€s anyone here from the public <br />that wants to speak on that, please be sure to let Sharon know so that we can get you on the <br />schedule here. Let me just recount briefly, and Mr. Torigoe you can correct me if I€m not on <br />base here. But basically we brought it up last time, we planned to have it at least at two <br />meetings, the Kona meeting and today€s Hilo meeting. We can take action today, although we€re <br />not required to, I believe, at the Hilo meeting. Also we had an issue brought up by <br />Commissioner Iwashita regarding the specifics of the resolution passed by the County Council, <br />being that the specifics of that resolution seemed like they weren€t quite in conformance with the <br />existing legal basis that we operate under. And I think maybe Mr. Lincoln Ashida, who€s one of <br />our testifiers today, will speak to that for us; and I€m sure we also would like to hear from the <br />Planning Director again. <br />Mr. Torigoe, how would you suggest I go forward at this time? <br />1EXHIBIT B <br /> <br />