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Commissioners, for your time, your attention, and your service to our island, for volunteering for
<br /> these very important decisions. I appreciate, respect that you'll support the highest and best use
<br /> for this historic and special property.
<br /> Lastly, I wanted to say a very heartfelt thank-you to Mr. Yee, Mr. Darrow, and Mr. Roy for their
<br /> countless hours they have spent working, vetting, and determining a positive recommendation to
<br /> the commissioners. Thank you all very, very much.
<br /> CARR SMITH: Thank you, Christie. Go ahead, Mr. Chin.
<br /> CHIN: Aloha, everyone—can you hear me?
<br /> CARR SMITH: Yes, thank you.
<br /> CHIN: Great. Chair Carr Smith, Vice Chair Kealoha, Commissioners DeFranco, Newberg,
<br /> Van Pernis, Vitousek, and Yates, thank you very much for your public service and for being
<br /> involved in the Leeward Planning Commission. I just got appointed to a commission myself
<br /> over here on Oahu, and I can tell you that whatever motivation or ambition or a phone call from
<br /> the mayor got you to be part of this commission, it ultimately I'm sure becomes a labor of love,
<br /> and it's a lot of time and sacrifice on your part away from your work and your family to be able
<br /> to decide some very important things. So I want to thank you very much for being involved in
<br /> that. I also want to thank Director Yee, as well as the staff at the Planning Department for
<br /> Hawaii County and Corporation Counsel, for working with us so closely through this, through
<br /> this entire process.
<br /> I guess what I wanted to do was just address a few things, and then I think we are ready to be
<br /> able to take whatever questions that we [sic] have. But the first thing that we wanted to say is
<br /> that we appreciate the time and effort that was put into the Planning Department's
<br /> recommendation that the permit be approved, with several conditions. And we would note that
<br /> those conditions that have been placed upon the Special Permit are extensive, they are thorough,
<br /> and they are ones that, we believe, are ones that will address the concerns that have been raised
<br /> by the many different people who have testified, mostly the people who have testified against it.
<br /> But I think also the approval will back up the support from so many people in the community
<br /> whether they are residents, long-time residents, small-time business vendors, and other people
<br /> that live in the district. And so we are, we hope that what this discussion ends up being is more
<br /> of a discussion what we can do with these, what we can do with these conditions. We
<br /> appreciated the most recent submission, Condition number 3, that was put out by the Planning
<br /> Department after reading the different pieces of testimony that had been submitted. We are
<br /> ready to accept that. I think what we also did was we submitted a few recommendations for
<br /> changes to Conditions 7, 8, and 17, which we can address at another time, or at some point
<br /> during this meeting, when that comes up. But I just wanted to at least summarize where we
<br /> stood on the different conditions that have been, that have been placed. And I will just also note
<br /> that those conditions certainly give the right to be able to review and to revoke the Special
<br /> Permit, if there is anything that occurs in the future that is not consistent with what the Planning
<br /> Department and the county is recommending.
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