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theother purported dwelling, one was already demolished; and then the other one was used by a former plantation resident, and he had a lease with the former owners that allowed him to live on the property for the rest of his life; and he expired about five or ten years ago, and that house now is in disrepair right now. So the intent is to eventually have that second or that remaining dwelling to be demolished. In response to the question about the, whether it would require like a certificate of need, this project is not intended to provide any medical services on the property. Its intended purely to be like a rest home prior to or like after a person goes through, like a Ronald McDonald House, you know, sort of. So like a Ronald McDonald House would not require like a certificate of need or any, as I understand, Department of Health type of permit. So if you have a child that would be, maybe scheduling for like some kind of tumor surgery or whatever have you and, you know, they are maybe from an outer island or from all parts of the United States or the world and they want to come here and they need to just rest up, get acclimated before, you know, going in for theactualsurgery,thenthefacilitywouldprovidethatkindofaccommodations. Itisanonprofitentity;andsotheirprimaryfundsarethroughlargefoundations,andthrough private individual donors, as well as a lot of volunteers. SPRINGER:Thank you, Mr. Fuke. Commissioners, any questions for the applicants representative. Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA:Yeah, Im just wondering if they would be required to be make to the building any renovations relating to ADA since some of these children may be in wheel chairs. FUKE:You are correct. They do have to make some renovations to the basic building and the structure. As your staff had indicated, because the building is listed under the State Historic Register it has to go through that review process. But primarily what youre looking at is all of the interior renovations and to do the necessary ADA compliance. SIRACUSA:So is it appropriate for us to make a decision on this before those possible renovations go through the historic preservation or -. I mean, I just want to make sure were not doing the cart before the horse here. FUKE:No. I think that what youre looking at right now is just allow -, you know, whether this use is appropriate, the basic concept of the use is or is not appropriate for this particular location. And if the decision is yes, then there are conditions as outlined by your staffs report which would require that certain steps would have to be followed before the facility can be operational. SIRACUSA:So Resort zoning would seem to apply even if the people utilizing the area are children, right, because they will be using it in a restful kind of context rather than its not a school, its not a, you know what I mean? FUKE:Well, transient accommodations, I guess, you could stretch it along that line. But the way that we had looked at it was more that this was like a convalescent home; and so by the terms of the Zoning Code, it says that you need to have a use permit. So -. 3