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of steal them away for time I can have with my grandchildren. Ill go back to the mainland to see them too but, but this- Lynda and I live our lives. We love Kona and we want this home here, and how we live our lives here. This will really- if we cant have the pool it would- other people may think its a hardship for- and in some senses its not but it will change what we do and how we do things. And so I, I just in- beg you to please let me do this, cause I dont think I harm anyone by doing it. VITOUSEK:Yeah, I dont- I dont have any further questions. SPRINGER:Commissioners do you have questions for the applicant or his representative? Commissioner Graham. GRAHAM:Yeah. Mr. Laurance, I appreciate your feeling of- how you feel about things and all, too. But I wanted to, can I give you like kind of a nitty gritty kind of question? The5-footissue,Imean,Ihave-IfeellikeIhaveagoodpositivefeelingforwhyyoure requesting this and the reasonableness of it and all that. However, when I was looking closely at the parcels both to the south and the north, Im not convinced about the 5-foot in the sense that Im not convinced that if we give you a 5-foot setback your pool cannot be noticeably closer to that wall than these other ones are. So, what I would ask is that you agree to a condition whereby the water surface on your pool is no closer to that wall than either of the adjoining properties to the north and to the south and also that the masonry or whatever construction around the pool thats there to sort of construct the pool be no closer to the wall than either of the properties on the north or the south. And it feels like the- the gist of, you know, how you justify being able to do this is that this is what others are doing so I only want, you know, whats fair. So I feel like this is something perhaps you should accede to in the sense of being consistent with what your request is. Could you do that? LAURANCE:Mr. Graham, as you were walking this morning and you were walking southerly, going to the left -. GRAHAM:Yes. LAURANCE:There was the first pool and then there was a second pool. The second pool you can reach out and touch the rock wall if you lean in. If thats what youre asking me, in other words, if I, if you pick just the two pools that are adjacent to me as being that-. NOMURA:Microphone, please. LAURANCE:Pardon? VITOUSEK:Microphone. LAURANCE:Oh. I understand your point; and I would be- I would be no closer to the wall than any of the other pools along that area. Pick the closest one to the wall, I will be no closer to that. I can see this space here, this is, I dont know- its this one over here is also close, but this ones also close, too. I dont think its a problem. 23