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Puna's continued growth, we see why keeping development off the important. Thank you for allowing me to provide testimony in behalf of Sure Save Super Markets. We look forward to working with all parties to help create needed services in the community as well as work with community associations to give proper input. If I may be of assistance, please give me a call at 935-9680. T GALDONES:Thank you, Mr. Okuyama. Commissioners, any questions of Mr. Okuyama? FUJIKAWA:I have a question of Mr. Yuen. GALDONES:Commissioner Fujikawa. FUJIKAWA:Yeah, a question with the Director. On Mr. Okuyama's paper, letterhead here, about the development being off the highway, this was a good foresight by our past Planning Director and Planning Commission. How do you feel about that today? YUEN:It was. It's, in a situation like this, it's much better to have the commercial development perpendicular to the highway on a side road rather than along the highway, especially if you're going to -. The worst thing is to allow direct access from the highway, then you got cars pulling in and out all over the place. It's also visually less attractive to have it along the highway where you create a commercial strip than it is to have it off the side road. So I continue to support this concept. And in the Draft General Plan that we have, we have a General Plan amendment showing an Urban area along Orchidland where these special permits are located so that it's clear that this is the target area for commercial use in Orchidland. FUJIKAWA:I see. GALDONES:Mr. Yuen, Mya Paw`U stated that there were some conditions that they would like to be added on to the permit. Now can it be included or is it already going to be covered under the final plan approval? YUEN:The Department would not recommend these additional conditi Some of them are included, but we would only recommend adding conditions to the original permit that are related to changed conditions. Like when, like the waterline, for example. When the permit was granted in 1990, there wasn't the 12-inch line along the Kea`au-Phoa Road; now there is. So if we were looking at the permit, a commercial permit today, we would say bring in water. Now they are agreeing to bring in water, but we did want to put that in as a specific condition. 15