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SIRACUSA: I move that the application for a Special Management Area Use Permit, SMA 07-000026, Hilo Farmers Market, LLC, be approved based on the Planning Director’s recommendation and proposed conditions. WOODWARD: Second. IWASHITA: Third. WATANABE: Okay, we’ve had a motion and a second for a favorable action. Any further discussion? ALAMEDA: Mr. Chairman? WATANABE: Yes. ALAMEDA: I’d like to make a comment. WATANABE: Mr. Alameda. ALAMEDA: Thank you. I used to live up Waiakea Uka way on the top and I used to ride my bike down when I was a young boy all the way down to the Farmers Market and played with my friends across the street at Mooheau Park. The Farmers Market is just an unbelievable place, I think, where cultures and diversity can meet at one place. And that cultural exchange, there’s no better experience than people from diversed backgrounds, ethnically, age, socio- economic, to meet at one place and use food, and now get flowers and other nice tangibles, if you will, to talk story. And so I fully support this application. I think it will do wonders for the Hilo community in bringing everybody together like it has in the past. And so I really congratulate all of you for putting this together. That’s all. WATANABE: Thank you. Mr. Iwashita? IWASHITA: Yeah, two things. First, as far as the building height, if you look at the picture on Page 4 of the materials, the Hata Building, you’ll see that the façade of the Hata Building is considerably higher than the actual roof height. Facade, façade, I went law school. I didn’t go to architectural school, sorry, façade. Actually lawyers think of façade is like a bad, you know, something fake. Right? The façade is considerably higher than actually the line of the adjoining building, which is the line you see in the architecture or rendering. So I just don’t see, you know, I guess my really eyeballing it, the actual buildout of this building to three stories is not going to be that much higher than the façade of the Hata Building. And, in fact, the Hata Building has a third story. You can’t see it but all the way in the back there is a third story and a room and it’s rented. It used to be used by a court reporter, that’s how I know. But I think it used to be a residence, part of a residence before. One of my classmates used to live there. So, one, there is a three-story building on front street, Downtown Hilo. The only other thing I want to say is, you know, in Seattle they throw the fish around. Maybe in the Hilo Farmers Market they can throw the taro around or something to juice it up. But, again, EXHIBIT B 20