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The next condition would be Condition No. 7 which limits the vehicles on site to 15-passenger vans. There’s a concern that people will be coming from Kona and by limiting the size of these vehicles they would have to bring more vehicles from Kona. So he was asking that he would be agreeable to increasing that to 30-passenger vans. And, again, Mr. Carlile, if you have any concerns or disagreements, if you could -. CARLILE: That’s not a big issue, except just thinking of the environment and cost and people and so forth. Coming from Kona is quite a ways and it just would cut down on traffic, etc. That it not that big a deal for us, but just thought it might be more practical. WOODWARD: So those revisions, the two revisions he has mentioned, the 30,000 per year number and the change in the size of the vehicles, those are acceptable to you? CARLILE: Yes. DARROW: Thank you. Looking at the next condition, this would be Condition No. 9; and this is a condition which prohibits weddings, concerts, conventions and other types of special events and activities. This is our standard condition placed in retreat facilities or other types of similar requests that actually don’t ask for these types of events. And the main reason is that there’s no conditions limiting, if these uses were requested by the applicant we would be able to limit the amount of events, the amount of people, the amount of vehicles, those types of limits on these particular uses. So at this point I believe the Planning Director is asking that if the applicant wants to proceed with these particular uses that he would come in for an amendment for these uses. And then the last condition is Condition No. 10. The bottom portion of the property that connects to Old Mamalahoa Highway also runs halfway in Umauma Stream. And basically we just have a condition that it’s a traditional customary use that people go swimming, they access the river to go fishing, and get prawns, and other type of activities in there. And so it’s our condition that we just not block, that the applicant not bock that access. His concern is that in his particular quadrant there in that section that that area is very dangerous to access into the stream. I guess from the bridge down to where the stream is there’s no practical way to get down there. So his concern is more out of liability and safety. But at this point the Planning Director recommends to keep this condition in, just because that if it’s not an area that people don’t access they won’t and it shouldn’t be a concern. Regarding liability, there is Hawaii State Law 520 that does not have liability on the private landowner for recreational uses. WOODWARD: All right, thank you. We did have, did you have anything further to add to any of this? No? MIKKELSON: Not at this time. WOODWARD: Mr. Carlile? 6 EXHIBIT B