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JACKSON: All right. So, as Chair Carr Smith mentioned, this is an amendment, there's two amendments on the table: One is to Change of Zone Ordinance, 09 132, and one is for Change of Zone Ordinance 09 131. The subject property is outlined in red on this slide. It's located in the North Kona District. You can see Queen Ka`ahumanu Highway running in a north-south direction on the west side of the property. You can see the Kona Airport in this large gray area near the sea. And then Mamalahoa Highway is on the right side of the slide, and just below Mamalahoa Highway between the Palamanui project and the highway is the Makalei Estates in this general area here. So just a little history on the Palamanui development. In 2005 the subject 725-acre property was rezoned from Agricultural and Open to Project District for a mixed-use development known as the Palamanui development. This project will continue to consist of approximately 1,100 residential units, inclusive of required affordable housing; a 70-acre business park; 230 acres of open space; a 74-acre dry forest preserve; a 30-acre town center known as University Village that will consist of a 120-room hotel and retail shopping and commercial amenities to support the adjacent University of Hawaii West Hawaii campus and surrounding businesses; and lastly, a 20-acre public park. Then four years later in 2009 the applicant wanted to add some industrial uses into the Palamanui project. And Project District zoning does not allow industrial uses. So the applicant applied for and secured rezone of 29 acres from Project District to Industrial- Commercial Mixed zoning. This was in order to develop 35 lots ranging in size from 20,000 to 62,000 square feet, in order to accommodate distribution, wholesaling, retail, office and other land uses permitted in the MCX district. Sothis MCX zoned area is part of the larger 70-acre business park, which is located in the northwest portion of the property. And this is the county zoning map. Again, you can see the property outlined in red. The Project District zoning is shown in the gray color, and then the 29-acre MCX zoned portion is this purple color in the northwest portion of the property. Surrounding zoning near Queen Ka`ahumanu Highway is Open, which is shown in the green, the dark green, and Agricultural zoning is located to the north and south and east. Makalei Estates, which is shown in the blue color is zoned Agricultural-3 acres. So, many of the conditions that the applicant is requesting to amend are related to roadways in the Palamanui project, and so I want to orient the commission to the names of the various roadways that will be discussed. And what I would like to suggest is that you have this map available as I go through the requested amendment so that you can see which roads I am going to be talking about. And this map was sent to you as Exhibit A-1 of the background report of the applicant, of the application. So the Queen Ka`ahumanu Highway is located on the left side of the slide. Mamalahoa Highway is located on the right side of the slide. The Palamanui project is highlighted in yellow. And Ka`iminani Drive is south of the project area, and it extends from Queen Ka`ahumanu Highway up to Mamalahoa Highway. Of all of these roads that are shown on the map, the only one that is currently constructed is the one shown in pink, and that is referred to as Road 3A, it's also referred to as Ane Keohokalole Highway, and it extends from Ka`iminani Drive up to the southern property boundary of Palamanui. And just to the east of the road in this general location here is the new University of Hawaii campus at Palamanui. You also notice this large pink circle on the map, and that is to indicate that this area is a transit- 5 DRAFT