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AU: Okay, I have questions for the applicant then. WOODWARD: All right, any further questions for staff? Commissioner Domingo. DOMINGO: As a follow-up to Commissioner Dean’s questioning, I see that the services provided, permanent service is provided to the building. You know, I’m wondering, under normal circumstances when you build a structure and it has not been, it has been inspected to a certain degree but not completely because it wasn’t signed off, you should always, you should also have the plumbing and electrical approval; and having both of those approval, along with the building approval, then a request is made to the power company for connection. I’m wondering, has there been some kind of mix-up? Because normally if the permit hasn’t been finalized, this building, in my understanding, shouldn’t be given power. It might be, that can be answered by some other part, or the applicant, or whatever. But -. COTTLE: Yeah, I’m not certain why the Building Division would have signed off or given authorization to Helco to hook up the permanent electric without the permits being finalized. I can’t answer for the Building Division. But the permit records that staff checked to verify whether the permits were completed, this was checked about a month ago, a month and a half ago. So maybe since then the permits have been finalized; but a month and a half ago they were not. DOMINGO: I understand. But, you know, I doubt if that could have ever taken place. This should have been finalized if they received power, that would be completion of the building; and that was in the latter part of 1999. It’s almost ten years, just about ten years ago. Did you folks made any site inspection to the property? COTTLE: Yes. Actually that’s where we got this photo. DOMINGO: Now I realize that this permit applies only to a certain portion of that total, the total size of the property. So what we’re doing is singling out, delineating by number of feet and whatever, how much would be under the special permit, yeah. And in essence, you know, this would be then argumentative when we discuss the issue. Because in essence what we’re doing is, here we have agricultural property and then we’re carving out a piece of property for a use which is generally placed in a light industrial area, you know. And I was wondering, I was going to ask to what extent the macadamia nuts were, farm was being worked upon. But that is not part of the application so I think that is not germane to the question. And, of course, because this is an agricultural parcel, you know, how many people actually work on the parcel, and if any at all were any income registered or derived from this property to show that it was actually used as an agricultural, put in agricultural use? And, you know, those are some of my concerns to which I think we can discuss this when we entertain a motion. COTTLE: I can respond to the harvesting of the macadamia nut orchard. According to what the applicant explained to staff, the mac nuts are not being harvested at this time. The trees are just being pruned, maintain. And I don’t believe that any employees other than the applicant are doing the maintenance activities of the orchard. 3 EXHIBIT A