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intent. And I won't go ahead and repeat it for the sake of brevity,but the most recent letter dated October 1 Ith really lays things out in our opinion quite well. In the end the applicant is doing exactly what the short-term vacation rental law was intended to achieve, which is to focus these types of transient accommodations in areas that can support it primarily resort designated areas and commercial areas. Which is why the applicant felt that applying for a Change of Zone is the most transparent way of pursuing this request because it allowed for community dialogue, public notice,public hearings and vetting of the project by many reviewing agencies, as well as the County. So, it's a very, very transparent process. The applicant also took a lot of effort in continually revising his proposals. Not only in the modification of the site plan in order to consolidate, re-adjust and reduce the scale of the project, but also to introduce components that will try to address some of the concerns from the community, namely the preservation of the `ohi`a canopy as well as and noise and traffic concerns. We will even note that in response to the noise concerns the hosted component of the project was also introduced and considered by the applicant.<Now granted it would render it no longer a short-term vacation rental as was discussed just earlier in this presentation. But the fact is, it demonstrates where every step along the way the applicant is trying to find those mutually beneficial opportunities to address the concerns of the community, as well as to promote and hopefully achieve what the applicant wishes for this property. So, anyway, we do believe that the request is a proper land use"—"within this portion of Volcano that is designated as a Community Village Center, and we do appreciate the favorable recommendation from the Planning Director and hopefully likewise consideration from the'Commission. With that I stand ready to answer any questions you may have. And if Mr. Fuke may want to add on to my presentation, I'd be more than welcome. FUKE: I'm sorry, I'm holding this because I'm kind of like at a place there's a lot of noise and I'm trying to be really quiet. So,but, at any rate,I just wanted to provide some background for the Commission because this is a project Mr. Daggula had approached me and it's to amounted to my being like the quarterback and I lateral the football to Mr. Arai and that's the reason why Daryn has kind of like taking over the project. But I feel somewhat responsible, so I kind of been kind of like tagging along with Daryn when there was a meeting with the Community Association and also in discussions with the with the architect with the design of the project. When Mr. Daggula first approached me and then subsequently together with Daryn. His primary intent was to construct 3 separate single-family dwellings on the property and have that operate purely as a short-term vacation rental. As the staff kind of pointed out short-term vacation rental does not require any of the owner or a resident manager to be on the property and as a result, you can have a lot of these kind of concerns, noises, so on and so forth. So, based on the comments that we received, the written testimony. So, we kind of went back to the drawing board and then we said what we need to do is to have a hosted vacation rental. Largely because if you have a hosted then there are some controls in terms of who are the occupants of the project and thus minimizing some kind of impact to the surrounding property owners. Then there was also the concern about the excessive size of the structures that it is going to delude most of the property. So, the original plan essentially called for 3 separate 10 EXHIBIT B (DRAFT)