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WATANABE: Yes. HOUSEL: I have one question. We’re talking about traffic and increased traffic. Have you reviewed the M&E Pacific Traffic Analysis Report? WALKER: I’ve only glanced at it. My understanding is it focused primarily on the water bottling plant use. I know when the Police made their report it was based on the water bottling plant as well. HOUSEL: Okay. Have you read the conclusions of the report? WALTER: I have not read them recently. HOUSEL: Okay. The way I read the conclusions which were presented were that this would not present a dramatic increase in the amount of traffic on Milo Street. And the conclusion is that it would not be, you know, an increased safety hazard. Do you dispute that? WALKER: Yes. We dispute it on the basis of the zoning -. If you look at all of the possible uses in the zoning, if I tell you today that I’m going to do x, y, and z but I have zoning that lets me do 1, 2, and 3 additionally, the 1, 2, and 3 may very well occur. There’s nothing to stop them, at which point the traffic count and the traffic study become invalid. And that’s why we think a special use permit that would lock those in made more sense. WATANABE: Do we have any further questions? HOUSEL: Thank you. WATANABE: Ms. Bowman? BOWMAN: Yes. That is my concern also. I know with another rezoning we had in Downtown Hilo although the applicant, you know, one of the small businesses, by granting the zoning it didn’t limit it, it could have, you know, been a 7-Eleven or whatever. So I think I have the same concerns. And I know, I think we asked this at the last meeting if it is a bottling plant -- and I know, I think the applicant desired more uses -- would they go for a less dense -? I mean -. WATANABE: Well, okay, that will require, you know, both the Department’s as well as the applicant’s response. And we’ve heard a lot and there’s a lot to chew on. I’d like to kind of finish up the questions that we have outstanding for the testifiers, take a break, and allow then the applicant and the applicant’s representatives to come up and respond to some of what has been discussed. And possibly during that break we would have a little more time to digest the amount, you know, all this information that has come in. And I don’t necessarily want to rush to a decision just -. Is that okay? Does that sound like a plan? So do we do have any further questions for the applicant? WOODWARD: The only question I have -. WATANABE: Yes? EXHIBIT A 24