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here. Welcome Commissioner Daniele, I'm sure you'll be a great addition to the Commission. Thank you, all other Commissioners, for your continued dedication and in support of this important process and in your communities as a whole. Thanks also to Deputy Director Darrow for a favorable recommendation, Ms. Andrews for the excellent presentation and all the rest of the Planning Department staff for their tireless work to further managing this lovely home, we have here on the Big Island. So, I'll just say a few brief general remarks about the application and how it fits into the area, and I'll allow Mr. and Mrs. Palmer introduce themselves and their business. Then we'll kind of circle back and get into a little bit more of the meat of the conversation to the proposed amendment to conditions. So, the request as it stands is to convert this 11,000 square foot property to Commercial use. Now there's a couple different things that we look at and the Planning Department, especially looks at when evaluating this. There's the proposed use, so what the Palmers are intending to do specifically with this property their plans for the development in this case the retail, appliance, and furniture outlet. Then there's the potential future uses. So, say down the line,the Palmers would sell or plan some other use of the property so those would be consistent with the proposed CV-10 zoning. Now the area is developing commercially. It's consistent with the General Plan to do so and the proposed use fits in with this area. It'll be a valuable service to the community; it will be conveniently located so that folks in the Puna area don't have to travel further for their appliance and furniture needs. It appears that little impacts on the area. So, we'll again circle back a little bit more and dig in on the proposed revisions to Condition K for the curb, gutter, and sidewalk. But all the conditions in generally seem very well crafted and we're in agreement with them in general. So,the Palmers please unmute and introduce yourself. L. PALMER: Hello,thank you for considering us here. My wife Julie and I we've owned Ross Appliances for over 20 years now. I've been working there for 33. We like the Big Island. We had a couple stores there. We had one on Kanoelehua in the Singer building and we had one in Kailua-Kona in the Old Industrial. It's always been a problem for us what has always kind of been our downfall is the rising rents. We found this house and the opportunity to maybe control that where we can set up a store,then sell our goods, help people, and help ourselves. That's pretty much it. We like the Big Island. J. PALMER: We like the Big Island. It's beautiful. PIPAN: Thank you much. Could I ask, please Ms. Andrews, if you have handy the Exhibit 9 with the aerial photo showing the pedestrian facilities from the background report. ANDREWS: I'll have to take a minute to pull that up. I don't have that immediately available. PIPAN: Okay, no worries. I'll get started. So, apologies for the late communication following up on the proposed conditions in the Planning Department's recommendation report. We'd like to make the case for reducing the curb, gutter, and sidewalk requirements or deferring it. Delaying it until some use in the future is proposed on the property that would potentially have more of an impact. And this is getting rack to that discussion of permitted uses and actual 4 EXHIBIT B (DRAFT)