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HERNANDEZ: No. WOODWARD: Very good, okay. We’ve taken care of all of that. Do we have a motion? IWASHITA: Mr. Chair? WOODWARD: Commissioner Iwashita. IWASHITA: Thank you, Mr. Chair. In regard to Item No. 1 agenda, Connie and Marcel Hernandez, SPP 09-89 special permit to allow the establishment of a naturopathic retreat center which would include overnight guests, seminars, individual consultations, massage therapy, acupuncture, and educational tours on 3.111 acres of land, etc., I move that the application be approved together with the conditions previously set forth on the record. KERN: Second. WOODWARD: Any discussion? Commissioner Domingo. DOMINGO: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think I’d like to be satisfied for myself and in respect to the Planning Director’s recommendation for denial and in deference to her action -. I would just like to mention that one issue that we need to really settle in our minds is whether in fact the request is in conflict with the General Plan; and if we should approve this special permit what it would entail and what would be involved with us in future applications of similar uses. Now, you know, I respect the recommendation, I respect the Planning Director. And I must say that, as I look at this application and as I review others which have come before us in which we have made some modifications with regards to the recommendations of the Planning Director, we had gone contrary to what she was recommending. This, too, I would like to just mention that, you know, certainly it does not conform to the requirements of the General Plan with regards to commercial uses and its types, and in actuality where it would be best suited for; and as stated in this recommendation that, you know, it should be, it would be more appropriate if it was located in the Honokaa town area. And I think this is a primary negative factor to which our denial should be based on. And I just would like to mention that, again, you know, we are looking at a special permit application. And all those lands along Kapulena although they, most of the lands in Kapulena, although they have urban type of uses with respect to residential homes being situated near each other -. The so-called main downtown area of Kapulena is where this place is situated. I live across the gulch further down. And there also is another so-called, at that time plantation used to situate their homes in different areas, and they were called camps; and I lived there. And I bought a portion of property adjacent to one of these camps and, therefore, my property is more than an acre and a half. And it’s beyond, it’s beyond the boundary of 500 feet where residents affected by an application should be notified. That’s why I haven’t heard anything about it from the very beginning. And I’m not taking offense to it because it was done in compliance with the requirements and the laws as set forth in the General Plan. 19 EXHIBIT A