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R-3 Seca r C9MMU~ < ' CHURCH r AFFILIATED WITH THE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF AMERICA December 24, 2008 Mr. Daryn Arai Acting Planning Director County of Hawaii 101 Pauahi Street, Suite 3 Hilo, HI 96720-4224 Re: Zoning Ordinance 98-08 - Grace Community Church TMK: 7-4-6:Portion of 38 Request for Additional Time Extension Dear Mr. Arai, Further to the letter from Chris Yuen dated October 16, 2008, this letter requests an extension for 5 years to meet the requirement of Condition D of Change of Zone Ordinance 98-08. Condition D requires that "Final Subdivision Approval of the proposed subdivision shall be secured ...within 5 years of the effective date of the Change of Zone Ordinance." The original tentative subdivision map filed by the applicant included a mixture of 1/2 acre house lots and 2.5 acres of property dedicated to use by Grace Community Church (see SP1010). Asa result of discussions between the County, the Church and the original applicant concerning the funding of required Palani Road safety improvements, the original applicant agreed to withdraw the existing tentative subdivision map, and to instead dedicate all of the property to non-profit organization uses (including the Church), with one residential lot for the Church Pastor's house. The County-mandated withdrawal of the original tentative subdivision map (to be later replaced by a yet- to-be-determined three lot subdivision map) made it impossible to meet the time requirements for Condition D. Additional significant delays were incurred due to protracted lease negotiations between Kona Christian Academy (KCA) and Church of Christ on adjacent property, as KCA was and is the intended recipient of the remaining land originally intended for development of housing lots. This has necessarily delayed filing of a subsequent subdivision map for the property. Based on the status of negotiations between KCA and the Church of Christ over long-term use of the Church of Christ property (including potential partial purchase by KCA), Grace Community Church believes that the desired subdivision map and final approval thereof can and will be completed with the 5 year extension of time hereby requested. Your prompt and favorable consideration of this request will be greatly appreciated. With our letter to Mr. Yuen on September 15s', we erroneously enclosed a check for $250 for processing of our SP1010 extension request. We subsequently replaced that check with a check for the correct fee of Rev. Bruce W. Campbell, Pastor . Gary Summers, Assistant Pastor . Brian Keiser, YoutRing Dept. 74-4889 Palani Rd. Kailuo-Kona, HZ 96740 (808) 326-9580 Exhibit