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LIM:Okay. Thank you. Madam Chair and Members of the Planning Commission, Steven Lim on behalf of Kamehameha Investment Corporation. As you can see, weÓve got Royden Yamasato joining us today at the video table. This is a small effort on our part to offer and inform and to entertain the Planning Commission on this application. ItÓs first time for Royden and myself, so, weÓd please ask you to be gentle. Go ahead, Royden. The project district, and if you want to know, a lot of these graphics were obtained off of the web or the County of Hawai`iÓs web and, so, we have a lot of graphics available to us. And weÓre going to try to, you know, do our best on this first presentation. Hopefully, theyÓll get better over time. But the project is located in North Kona at Keauhou. YouÓve been to the project site and passed it many times. ItÓs within the County of Hawai`iÓs Council District No. 7; and youÓll see a crown, that will be the approximate location of the project site in each of these slides. The current Council person representing this district is Mr. Joseph Reynolds. The subject project is comprised of what we call, primarily, KIC Parcel 14-C. And if you have ever driven down Kamehameha IV Road and gone down pass the Shopping Center, taken a right and gone to that traffic light to nowhere, thatÓs where the project site is. And itÓs between there, which is the current Parkway location, and the Ali`i Highway. The County of Hawai`i General Plan LUPAG map for the whole island as shown in this slide and the particular enlarged portion of the LUPAG map showing that the project site is located approximately within the Medium Density Urban District, is shown here. The proposed County General Plan being processed by the County Council at this point is shown on the next slide. And the project area and the areas around there are being proposed for whatÓs being called a new classification called ÐResort Node,Ñ which is intended to show the major resort areas. The zoning for the subject property is RM-3; and, as you can see from the enlarged view of the County departmental map, this is basically an in-field project. We have had the zoning for numerous years; and it is just now that the market has been picking up, so weÓre processing the development. Essentially what weÓve asked for is up to, development of 200 multiple-family units. WeÓve been talking about the size being approximately 1,100. I think as weÓve gone through the development process and seeing the market evolve, what weÓre coming to see is that perhaps, instead of many smaller connected units, weÓre going to be looking more towards possibly nine or ten larger buildings, which would incre viewplanes through the project property. As you can see from the slide showing the building elevations, the top elevation on these buildings is 36 feet, which is still another 10 feet lower than the permitted height in the district. We expect that these buildings will be developed along approximately three 4