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LIM: Thank you, Mr. Chair and Members of the Commission. I’m Steven Lim with Carlsmith Ball, PO Box 686, Hilo. With me to my left if Mr. Barry Francis, who’s the Vice-President for Real Estate Development for Clark Realty. Thank you for hearing our rezoning request. I guess we’ll handle first thing first, is Mr. Iwashita indicated he wanted to see if we had any problems with his prior representation of a client against Clark Realty. That case has been closed as far as I’m aware; and even if it isn’t, we don’t have any objections to him acting on the matter. GRAHAM: Thank you. IWASHITA: Mr. Chair? GRAHAM: Commissioner Iwashita. IWASHITA: Just to clarify that case was settled and so it has been resolved -. GRAHAM: Okay. LIM: Okay, secondarily, I’ll address the, rather than go into a presentation, I think Mr. Hayashi did a good job of presenting the project. The issues that arose during discussion earlier where Commissioner Watanabe raised the DOT issue, we are in agreement with the Director’s suggested condition of filling out the FAA Form 7460-1. We did a little bit of research on that issue just to check it. The building proposed is between 37 and 40 feet in height and the height limit in MCX district is 45 feet. We had, from another case, we had a diagram which showed the height limits for buildings, this is kind of a regulatory thing that Department of Transportation, Airport uses; and it’s kind of poor quality so he wasn’t going to pass it out. But essentially what we’re seeing is all of these various lines which indicate contours from maximum heights of buildings. I don’t think it addresses reflectivity and building materials. But for simply the height issue, even if you’re right around where the runway is, it’s 40 feet height maximum there already. So by the time you reach the woodpiles out at the HPM stockyard out there they’re at like 60 feet already. So I do not think height in and of itself is going to be a problem. But the FAA form does address other types of reflectivity issues they’re wiling to do that as a condition of the approval. I think for purposes of however the Director wants to handle the prior ordinance, that 97-93, we have no objections to however you want to handle that. GRAHAM: All right. Thank you. Are there any questions for the applicant from the Commissioners? Commissioner Iwashita. EXHIBIT A 7