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WOODWARD: Thank you, Mr. Prueitt. Do we have any questions for Mr. Prueitt? Commissioner Iwashita. IWASHITA: Just for the record, his address? WOODWARD: Oh, yes. PRUEITT: Oh, sorry, 3010 -. WOODWARD: Oregon. PRUEITT: Portland, Oregon, yeah, land of the trees, cheese and ocean breeze, 3010. IWASHITA: For, your specific -. rd PRUEITT: It’s 3010, 3010 Northwest 123 Place, Portland, Oregon, 97229. WOODWARD: Thank you, sir. Anything further? Commissioner Ishibashi. ISHIBASHI: Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, this land like Brother John Cross said was, is important. Coming from the sugar plantation, I worked there many years, and seeing the land develop this way is what we need in East Hawaii. Tourists want to see this kind of ambiance of the islands. They don’t want to see shopping all the time. They want to see something natural. So I appreciate these types of projects, especially along the Hamakua Coast. It’s important, thank you. WOODWARD: All right. Let me just ask the Planning Director one question for my own personal information. I know that we’ve gone over the request for the revisions to some of the conditions. And the one question I had on Condition No. 9 which prohibits weddings, concerts and conventions, I can see concerts and conventions cause that makes a lot of noise and a whole lot of people. Would it be reasonable to eliminate weddings from that list of prohibitions? LEITHEAD TODD: The concern I had is that this came in as a request for a certified kitchen and that because it didn’t include, you know, the special events in it I was concerned about whether there was sufficient notice to the surrounding community. And I didn’t want to add in a use that wasn’t in the original application without that kind of notice to the community. If the wedding event were limited in size cause, you know, I got married there were 30 people, my son got married we had 250, I think Emily got married and it was 2,000. So, you know, you just want to -. If the Commission is inclined to allow for weddings I would want to have some type of limitation on the size because weddings typically involve individual cars and more traffic. It’s not something where people are coming in a bus. And so that would be my biggest concern about that. And that’s the same thing with concerts. When you’re doing a zipline operation and you’re picking people up from Kona or Hilo, they usually book it and sign up for it, you put them on a van or you put them on a bus, and then you bring them to the site. But 12 EXHIBIT B