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general kind of feel for what we’re proposing. WOODWARD: Okay, well, on your lot site plan, it also has your parking area essentially going up to the street with a few palm trees planted there. I mean that does seem to be a problem as far as not necessarily the people that’s your patients but other people that would need to walk along side of that street. They’re going to either be walking on other side or in the street. You see what I’m talking about here, this diagram? So, you know, I would think that you need to consider working with Public Works. And it’s not just question of patients but it’s a question of the public having access to a place to walk along that side of the street. Okay, do you have any comment on that issue? DUERLER: I guess, you know, Nawahi is a one-lane road. When I’ve ever been down there, I’ve been down there multiple times, you know, certainly Farmers Market Wednesday and Saturday, there’s more, you know, people potentially walking. But I know before the little temporary coffee cart was there the grass was all overgrown, and I don’t think anybody was able -. You know, they kind of mowed that down, and you can walk on that side now. But before I think everybody had to use the sidewalk on the other side of that pretty narrow lane. It’s definitely not highly traversed. You know, we’re open to the sidewalks. It’s just, you know, the concern is all of the requirements, the sidewalks, plus the level of parking, if that’s, you know -. If we weren’t able to physically meet all the requirements if, you know-. If sidewalks are an absolute necessity then we probably wouldn’t be able to provide as much off-street parking. DARROW: If I could interject again. WOODWARD: Yes, Jeff. DARROW: The requirements in Downtown Hilo do not require off-street parking. This would be something that, it would be your proposal for the off-street parking. So I don’t think there’s a requirement. You don’t have to have so many stalls that would be applicable for an additional proposal in another area in Downtown Hilo. It’s just going to be, you know, your benefit by providing the off-street parking. WOODWARD: Madam Director. LEITHEAD TODD: Well, I think it benefits Downtown Hilo if they can provide off-street parking, because parking is at a premium in Downtown Hilo. You know, the comments from Public Works came in really late. I think from what I know of the area you do need some type of a sidewalk on Punahoa, the frontage there. And one of your site plans for, I guess it’s Appendix A, indicates some area for sidewalk in front of your property on Punahoa Street. The architectural rendering doesn’t show it but on one of your, on Appendix A it shows a line for a County sidewalk there. And I think that, you know, I understand where Public Works is coming from because you’ve got two streets there, but there is very little traffic on Nawahi. It doesn’t really lead from like parking areas to something. You’re 5 EXHIBIT B