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This particular property is located in Kurtistown, in the Kurtistown area. We do have Volcano Highway kind of running through the middle of the map. There are all kinds of different colors which represent different types of zoning. The yellow in this particular area represents Residential uses. The blue, the dark blue, dark green, light green, pretty much the remaining uses except for the purple are all Agriculture. The purple that you see up there is the area where they have the 7-Eleven Store and the gas station, the post office. That’s right in this particular area, right at the intersection of Huina Road and the Highway. So just up from there we have the subject property identified with the black outline. This is a property that is, excuse me – I can’t believe I don’t have, I believe it’s 1 – the property is 1.8 acres in size. It’s a long skinny piece of property; and currently you’ll see that there are existing structures. This is a church, an Assembly of God Church, that’s actually on the property. The proposed area for the permit, for the tower, is located in the rear of the property. And, again, it’s only a 900-square foot area which is approximately 30 by 30. Access will be from the highway. The applicant is requesting the special permit for the 150-foot monopole, associated equipment consisting of 12 six-foot panel high antennas, a whip antenna, backup generator, four outdoor equipment cabinets and a chain-link security fence that will go around the 900-square foot area. This is a site plan that was submitted. It doesn’t show the actual structures in the area but it identifies them. But access will be from the highway to the back of the lot; and you’ll see the actual 30 by 30 area identified on the site plan. The Planning Director is recommending approval with conditions. I’d like to bring to your attention that we have had several pieces of correspondence submitted to the Planning Department recently. Two of these were from, in fact, all three of them were from Avalon Group, which is the representative for the applicant. One of them was an actual petition for standing in a contested case form that was filled out by a surrounding property owner that had submitted it to the applicant’s representative. We had contacted them and found out that they were actually not filing a petition for standing, they just wanted to show support for the tower. And they had written down that they had wanted to see a better communication signal for cell phones and that Kurtistown has a weak signal in the area. So we had contacted her and she said that was not her intention. Additionally, we received this morning, we had requested originally that the applicant provide additional photo simulations of the tower from areas along the Highway; and so they submitted that to you this morning. You’ll see that, on the top picture you’ll see a current photo and then on the bottom picture you’ll see a little addition of a little tower that has been drawn in. So that’s the difference between the top and the bottom pictures. If you have a problem finding out where that particular tower is, just let me know and I can show it to you on the two photos. So they took photos from two different areas. Are there any questions? WATANABE: Yes, Mr. Woodward. WOODWARD: Since this is built in the back of a church, is this for a better communication with God? I don’t expect you to answer that. DARROW: Okay, thank you. 2 EXHIBIT B