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kind of wanted to add on that is the fact that fortunately in this situation here the commission's role is merely recommendatory. It's a decision that the Commission will be recommending to the County Council is unlike the first application where your decision is final, so that kind of like reduces some of the I think this thing to the potential conflict issue. Having said that,just to provide some further emphasis on the application. The property received a Use permit back in 2013 for a medical facility and was explicitly designed for only for medical operation. However, we know that you had in 2014 there was an eruption and was followed again in a more major one in 2018 and that kind of like threw the plans totally off. So, in 2019 after the last 2018 lava flow, the thought was maybe to have this property be expanded in its use by creating more like a community hub. So, you had thenkind of like work with the County, and they constructed 3 of the structures that you saw on the staffs map. They all received the Certificate of Occupancy but along the way, the idea was that,having the property used and restricted only to medical use was not really fulfilling in his mind and for the community. Because we know that the County had recently completed the Kilauea Recovery and Resilience Plan. So, the thought was by having a commercial zoning in that area, this property could further help implement or support the Resilience Plan that was adopted by the County for this area by providing for whole bunch of uses. So, to be able to do that, you need to have the property rezoned from Residential to Commercial and that's the reason why we're here. The first phase, he already has these structures, money's have been invested for them, so the idea was essentially just to convert those existing structures into any sort of a commercial uses that the community deems appropriate. And then, secondly, ultimately the goal is to create like a single-story structure consisting of about 13,000 square feet, that would have like multiple uses medical, commercial, so on and so forth. At the same time,because this site at one point in time was considered by the County as a transit hub. The applicant is willing to really continue the discussion with the County at the County's initiation if the County wants to use all of it or a portion of it for any transit hub or things that would help implement the Resilience Plan and the applicant is totally receptive to that. Born and raised and living in that community so his going to be doing everything he can to help out the lower Puna district. The staffs background report kind of pointed out that the properties within the General Plan Medium Density area it complies with also the policy portion of the General Plan. More critically it's consistent with the Puna CDP, especially the Pahoa Regional Town Center. In your background report, you will see an internal communication between the Long-Range division of the Planning Department to this division noting that the property would be the projected rezoning rather is consistent with the Pahoa Regional Town Center. All of the basic infrastructure are there the water,the access, the wastewater system it's all going to be complied with and specifically addressed as kind of outlined in the staff's background report and the conditions. I think the most troublesome one relates to Condition K, which calls for the requirement of curb, gutters,and sidewalk fronting the properties. The applicant has major reservations in that it for two reasons, one was that whether it would really be befitting of this area to have like this urban type of environment, urban type of infrastructure curb, gutters, and sidewalk. In an area that's . very rural and, secondly, is that, in addition to the cost wise. There are like alternative ways to address the need for safe pedestrian movement in that area. And to help illustrate that point I'd 7 EXHIBIT C (DRAFT)