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And that’s because you have, and typically when we look at special permits it’s in areas where <br />you don’t have an urban area, when you don’t have land where you can situate facilities. And <br />when I looked at this, I wasn’t looking at this in isolation. My biggest concern was whether this <br />would be setting, the more special permits you grant the more difficult it is to deny the next one <br />that comes along. And so my concern was in the process of doing the CDP and the fact that you <br />have an Urban core in Honokaa, whether this was an appropriate time to be approving something <br />outside of that Urban core. <br />I grant that this is a relatively small enterprise, that it’s relatively small in numbers. Until now <br />we really didn’t have a feel for whether there was support in the community for it. Because, you <br />know, when we issue our notices of violations it’s based on someone in the community who’s <br />unhappy with the use and who is complaining. And we have no indication whether it’s just one <br />person or whether it’s the entire community. It looks like from the testimony today that there’s <br />some general support, and at least that the level of activity that has been existing is not of <br />concern. I guess the question I have is whether what is being proposed is over and above what is <br />already being done on the property. And I would want the Hernandez’s to respond to that <br />perhaps. <br />IWASHITA: Okay. So maybe then we’ll recall the applicant? <br />WOODWARD: All right. Yeah, maybe we could ask Dr. Hernandez to come back and just <br />address that specific question.You’ve already been sworn so you’re good to go. If you’ll just, <br />the Director had a question of whether the application that you’ve submitted is for things in <br />addition to those services which had been in the past performed. <br />HERNANDEZ: No. Everything that we listed on our proposal is what we’ve done in the past <br />except for the overnight. And the overnight facility, the reason for overnight is that we teach, I <br />don’t know how much you want me to go into it, Director, but there is a process by which <br />behavior is changed, and you can’t take it and do it in one consultation. If someone comes in <br />that has a sugar addiction, if we have them for three, four or five days under our care we can <br />teach them and counsel them on a daily basis on how to break a sugar addiction. It can’t happen <br />in just a one hour visit. So that’s one of the reasons for the small number of people who we’d <br />want overnight. It would not be any expansion of what we were doing illegally before, which we <br />have suspended as soon as we received our notice of violation. <br />I would also add that I don’t know if the person who complained, if the complaint is within our <br />community, because I’ve knocked on every door of everyone that was home on three different <br />days. So one of the people, one of my neighbors across the street said that a person from either <br />Papaikou, or I think it was Papaikou, had actually gone door to door and tried to get them to sign <br />a petition against me; and no one in the neighborhood would sign the petition against me. So I <br />don’t know if that complaint was from the neighborhood itself actually. <br />LEITHEAD TODD: I just don’t want to go down the road of granting this and your neighbors to <br />be surprised that what you actually do is different than what you’ve been doing; and that’s my <br />biggest concern. Cause their support is based on what they’ve seen of your operation. And so I <br />want to make sure that what you actually, if the Commission is inclined to approve the special <br />15 <br /> EXHIBIT A <br /> <br />