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And if I can direct your attention to the screen, we have a map showing the location of the property. The property is outlined in red, and it’s located in the Kaloko Business, or Industrial Park in the North Kona district. Queen Kaahumanu Highway runs in a north-south direction on the left side of the slide, and Hina Lani Street runs east-and-west on the top of the slide. The subject property is bordered on the north by Hina Lani Street, on the east by Kamanu Street and on the south by Olowalu Street. And next door to it is a Credit Union. On the slide the areas shown in gray are currently zoned Limited Industrial, and the areas in light purple are zoned Industrial-Commercial Mixed. So you can see that the three adjacent properties to the west are currently zoned MCX, and the large property across Kamanu Street is also zoned MCX. This slide is a little bit hard to read, but I’ll kind of walk you through it. The proposed development is a two-level structure. And the way the topography of the lot is oriented, there is going to be parking on the lower level and also on the upper level. So there are currently two existing driveways from Olowalu Street; one is shown here, and then there is another one shown right here, which leads into the lower-level parking lot, and then the driveway closest to Kamanu Street leads to an upper-level parking lot. And then the proposed building, which will be constructed in three phases, is oriented along the eastern property boundary. The applicant has actually already constructed the first phase of the development, and it’s currently being occupied with industrial uses. And if his proposed change of zone request is approved, then he would continue on with the next two phases of the development, and open it up to industrial and commercial mixed uses. This is a photograph showing the existing building, and you can see that it is under construction. This view is from the Credit Union parking lot to the west, so it’s actually looking kind of south- east. And as I mentioned, this is the existing building, and then construction of the rest of the building would occur over on the left side of the slide. We actually have, the Planning Department has a revised condition that you should have gotten in your folder; it’s on a yellow handout. And basically this condition is at the recommendation of Department of Public Works, and we are recommending that left turns to and from the mauka Olowalu driveway be restricted either by closing off the driveway completely or having the applicant install a median barrier in that street. And we actually just have another revision to the revision; we just want to add at the end of the first sentence, after “Kamanu Street,” it should read “Kamanu Street right-of-way tangents.” This is word-for-word, the condition from Department of Public Works, and we left that off. So, a little background on this revised condition.The applicant constructed the driveway quite a while ago, when he first started his development; he constructed this existing driveway, which is the one closest to Kamanu Street. And at the time that he constructed that driveway, it met our DPW road standards. Since that time the standards have changed, and the driveway is now considered too close to the Kamanu Street/Olowalu Street intersection. And it has introduced, you know, the potential for some traffic safety issues for people turning west onto Olowalu EXHIBIT A 2