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zoned districts. The green, darker green areas along Queen Kaahumanu Highway are areas that are zoned open. We also have agriculture 5-acre zoned lands, these are lands that are within the Keahole agricultural park. Also along Kaiminani Drive there are areas that are zoned for residential and developed with residential lots or are proposed to be developed for residential purposes. The brown shaded areas are areas that are designated multiple residential. There are two lots are involved in this particular request. And if I may refer to this particular map which is the overall Keahole Generating Stations and airport substation plot plan. First of all there is a small 0.6-acre property, which is the airport substation property. And the bigger area, which is 14.9 acres, which basically is the generating plant. The applicant recently went through a State Land Use Boundary Amendment from a conservation to a urban designation with the Land Use Commission. The Land Use Commission granted the request to urbanize the property to place th the property into the urban district and adopted their findings on November 7 of 2005. All of you received a copy of the decision and order, which stated thenumerous conditions that the applicant had to comply with. The Land Use designation for the County is the urban expansion area. Rather than go into detail the overall project description I would like to defer that to the applicant and they can explain it to the Commissioners as to what has been proposed. If you look at the maps on the-, boards on the-, easel. Its been a long day. The first one is a photograph of the subject property and the current improvements on the property and next to it is the overall property or site plan. And thats similar to this particular map, site plan thats on the wall. The primary access to the property will be from or is from Pukiawe Street which comes-. This is Pukiawe Street and this comes off of Kaiminani Drive. Theres also another access which is referred to as the Reservoir Road and thats an access thats directly off of, directly across of the airport access road. Water is available to the property and the wastewater system will come from for domestic wastewater will be the septic tank and leach field and the industrial wastes there will be two underground injection wells provided. We did receive 2 letters in support of the request for zone change and 1 request, the first request was from the Keahole Defense Coalition sent in by Keichi Ikeda. And the second is a letter from the Department of Hawaiian Homelands and that one is dated January 10, 2006. I believe all of you have a copy of those letters. The Planning Director is recommending approval of the zone change including the-, zone change with conditions including the incorporation of the Land Use conditions that were imposed by the Land Use Commission. We distributed amended conditions for the Commissioners consideration. The first one or the first change if you look in the amended condition is related to Condition C. And the reason why we did away with recommending that, of deleting that particular condition and the reason for that is that the water commitment has already been paid. In fact the property, the, obviously as all of you know the facilities already exist on that particular property. And the second change will be an amendment to condition D, and that would become a new condition C as a result of deleting condition C which we got in the water. And that increases the construction timetable from 5 to 10 years. And the reason for the change is that there are numerous permits, other permits that the applicant would have to obtain before they can construct. These include the permits from the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Health, the State Water Commission as well as the DLNR. So the time for that maybe lengthier than anticipated and this is why we increased the time from 5 to 10 years as to the construction completion. And finally, on the floor wed like to change condition D, that will be the new condition D and the current, now the condition that is submitted to you was that the applicant shall provide additional landscaping as set forth in the Landscaping Concept Plan. The applicant has since installed those landscaping. So basically what we want to do is delete the EXHIBIT G 2