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CAMERO: Okay, perfect. REPLOGLE: Yes. CAMERO: Good morning Chair and Members of the Windward Planning Commission. As stated, this is a Planning Director Initiated Amendment to the Zoning Code relating to the definitions, parking requirements, use permit requirements, and zoning district regulations for medical clinics, massage, acupuncture, chiropractic, and other similar health service facilities. The following slides will reflect the proposed amendments that the Director has made to the first ordinance that staff presented to you in November. The new proposed amendments are to address the concerns raised at the previous Leeward Planning Commission meeting. This proposed ordinance is to create a process for these health service facilities uses to come into the Planning Department and get any necessary approvals for. By now, you should have received the revised recommendation as well as the Planning Department Exhibit 2 which is the proposed ordinance that I will be discussing in the following slides. With that we will begin with the proposed amendment one(1). This is relating to the definition of a medical clinic. Currently, the definition of a medical clinic, states that chiropractic and massage treatment and services are not included as a medical clinic. The Planning Director is now proposing that the definition of a medical clinic be amended to include massage, acupuncture, chiropractic, and other similar health service facilities as a use defined under the medical clinic definition. This proposed amendment will now allow for massage, acupuncture, chiropractic, and other similar health service facilities to come into the Department under that medical clinic definition and in any area that a medical clinic is already defined,or we will define where it is going to be a permitted use in. Also, a part of the Director's proposed amendment Number 1 is to the personal service establishment definition. The personal service establishment definition currently includes massage facilities and chiropractic clinics as permitted under the personal service definition. The Planning Director is still proposing that the removal of massage facilities and chiropractic clinics be taken out of the personal service definition so that the personal service definition includes non-medicalservices such as hair salons. The Director has proposed to remove, and other similar uses devoted to the care of the treatment of the aged, the sick, or the infirm out of the hospital definition located in the Use Permit section because the Department has historically considered these uses as medical clinics. Therefore, proposed amendment number two (2) clarifies where these uses would be better suited. This slide also shows that the Director is proposing that a medical clinic can apply for a use permit in any of the six(6) districts listed on the screen. This slide also addresses the Leeward Planning Commission's previous concerns that a use permit should be required for these uses within the RM district. When Planning Staff was considering this Code amendment, we still found that there is a conflict with our off-street parking requirements in the proposed amendments. Therefore, Planning EXHIBIT A(DRAFT) 2