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etc. There’s also an approximate 400-square foot structure which will include bathrooms and showers and a storage room, and also parking areas. This is the site plan submitted by the applicant. You have Old Mamalahoa on the right side of the map. Access to the property is from a paved concrete driveway up to the proposed visitors center. And there is another parking area located in this general area. Again, you have some restrooms and shower area. There are several other accesses. The property is actually approximately 80 plus acres in size. They’re asking for just this particular area for the special permit. The applicant owns two parcels. The upper parcel is used mainly for the zipline tour operation. This would be in support for that. These are some site photos. This is looking south on Old Mamalahoa Highway. You have the concrete access to the property. This is looking at the property. This sign says the “Umauma Experience.” This is the proposed visitors center. It’s in its construction stage. It was previously going to be used as a storage for all the equipment that they were storing up there but in the process they decided to request a special permit for a visitors center. This is one of the sites from the property. This is Umauma Gulch. There’s an actual viewing area up there for visitors that come to the property. As I mentioned this is also, this is part of a zipline operation. This is, you can see the ziplines there going over the gulch. This one is approximately 2,000 lineal feet long and it’s one of eight ziplines that they have. The Planning Director is recommending approval with conditions. If I can just bring to the Commission’s attention a few things. One is that we have submitted a revised recommendation. It should be in yellow. The difference between that one and the first one was we had deleted Condition 11. We were asking for public access be granted to this particular site on the property but after legally looking at it, it looks like legally we cannot enforce that. And so at this point we’re going to delete that. Additionally, we’ve received numerous letters of support. We have received one letter of concern dated 12/29 regarding Kamaee Road; and we’ll have the applicant or their th representatives address that matter. The applicant had submitted a letter dated January 4 requesting certain conditions be revised or deleted; and I’m sure we’ll address that as well in the application, I mean when the applicant comes forward. Are there any questions? WOODWARD: Any questions for staff? Commissioner Domingo. DOMINGO: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Jeff, the property consists of that and which abuts the State Highway, Highway 19, and all the way up to the Old Mamalahoa Highway? DARROW: This property actually doesn’t abut the highway. It abuts the Old Mamalahoa Highway. The actual highway itself is, it’s a little further down. Let’s see, see, here’s the property in this general area. So you see the Old Mamalahoa Highway. This is the main highway, Highway 19. So there is property between the Highway 19 and this particular property. 2 EXHIBIT B