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3 3 I recommendation, and you may proceed with your presentation. Thank you. So, Mr. Wagner or whoever is going to go first. i 3 RAZNOV: Thank you Chair Replogle, this is Jill Raznov, I apologize for the earlier interruption 3 I was a little confused about what Maija Jackson and you were suggesting so, accept my apologies thank you. Jill Raznov I'm the representative and attorney for Charlene Iboshi and John Wagner the applicants who are here today and they are in the screen below me. I just like to say thank you to the Windward Planning Commission, the Chair Replogle, Vice-Chair Aguinaldo, Deputy excuse me, Planning Director Kern, Deputy Director Darrow, and the entire Planning Department staff for all your hard work and your assistance on this project and also to Corporation Counsel Jean Campbell. Thank you so much for this opportunity. Also, here today assisting on this was my law partner Tom Yeh, I'm not sure if he's going to appear or not but he also says thank you for this opportunity. John Wagner I just wanted to mention is a former assistant Corporation Counsel for the County of Hawaii and his lovely wife Charlene was the fonner Prosecutor for the County as you folks recall. 1 will let them speak at the end, I just wanted to quickly just say a few things, I didn't want to repeat what you already heard from Tracie. Her presentation was excellent and very thorough, and I thank her for that. We are requesting, applicants are requesting this change of zone and the reason is and let me just tell the story. So, John and Charlene they are long time Hilo residents. They bought this property on Kino`ole in nineteen eighty-five(1985) so, quite a long time ago. At that time, it was their very first residence in Hilo. They were moving back to the State from the Mainland, and this is their first house they bought together. So, it has a lot of history for them. At that time, the current existing dwelling and carport were already built, already there. Also, already there was the driveway on Lono Street that Commissioner Clarkson had pointed out. So, I'm sorry another Commissioner had also spoken about so that driveway was already present and that was the only access onto the property at that time. In nineteen ninety (1990)they the applicant's decided to purchase a different home for their better to accommodate their growing family and so, they decided to lease this property out. They had an opportunity with the Judiciary, the State of Hawaii, they had a Children's Advocacy Program that assist children in need and so at that time as Tracie Camero pointed out the State went in and had a determination asked the Planning Department to make a determination. Whether or not they could utilize that space for their use which were simply offices to accommodate that program of a limited nature and the Planning Department at that time made a determination that no change of zone was going to be required and issued a change of, change of use pen-nit on that basis. Also, at that time and I don't think this was discussed in Trade's presentation or Maija's answering of your questions. There was a plan approval that was required and one of the requirements under that plan approval had to do with the parking and the backing out situation on Lono. And so, the Planning Department had required the applicants to improve the parking lot on their property so that no cars would be backing out onto Lono Street. Just in case eventually there was that extension that Commissioner Clarkson was talking about and so now what currently exists if you look back at that I don't know if you have that still in front of you. 10 EXHIBIT B (DRAFT)