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assumed that all of the permits were closed. As someone mentioned earlier, we do have power at the facility and, you know, that usually does not happen until the County releases approval to the power company for a hookup. WOODWARD: I’ll leave that up to you. MIZUKAMI: I will follow-up on it because I would like to have this cleared up. WOODWARD: Okay, thank you. Did you have something further, Commissioner Au? AU: Could I bring staff up? I have a question for staff regarding this issue. WOODWARD: If you’ll wait just one second, I was just conferring with the Director and she’s going to make a statement about some of these issues. Madam Director. LEITHEAD TODD: Staff has prepared an additional condition to be proposed that any building permits should be finalized within 90 days, cause I don’t know whether it’s, that they weren’t finalized or that our records aren’t that good at the Public Works Department. But obviously, you know, somebody gave the go-ahead for permanent electricity to go to the building. And that building looks like it’s complete. So we’re going to add that as a condition so that they can provide some proof of the building permits being finalized. And then the other recommendation I was going to suggest is that we have done some other of these permits where we’ve done time limits; and we’ve done five years instead of three. And then we have given an opportunity, depending on conditions, for applicants to come back and ask for an extension. In particular, you know, the information -. I’m familiar with this area; and the applicant is correct that other owners have bulldozed the macadamia trees and basically turned the area into pasture. And much of this area has just become what I would call single family residential with a big lawn in some of these surrounding areas. So I’m a little surprised that he actually has property and there isn’t a house on it, and he has got actual workers, and he is actually maintaining the macadamia nuts. So I would ask the Commission to consider, you know, changing it to what we have done on other special use permit. For consistency, we’ve done five years with that permit up in the Honokaa area where they had that portable john service, I think that was a five-year permit in order to give them time. And I’m also, you know, interested in that this is a little different in that his workers are both doing the telecommunications work as well as actually doing farm work; and that was new information that he has said he’s giving the mac nuts to his neighbor. So there’s actually harvesting of the nuts that are occurring, even though he’s not getting the revenue from it. And I’m not sure, you know, about the time limit. I think that’s something that the Commission should take a look and see whether those are reasonable time considerations. WOODWARD: You’re speaking about the hours of operation? LEITHEAD TODD: Hours of operation because -. 9 EXHIBIT A