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ARAI:Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, Commissioners. If I may direct your attention to our location map, the project site is located on the upper or the Old Mmalahoa Highway, which is indicated by this white line here, and heading south from its intersection with Palani Road. This is, where I'm pointing is Palani Road Junction, and this is Palani Road itself leading down toward Kailua-Kona. The project site is indicated -, is currently designated Ag-20, as indicated by this olive green color here. And the project site is bounded by these homestead roads, which is indicated here in white. Surrounding lands are designated Agricultural-1 acre minimum lot size, as indicated by this lighter green color, as well as Ag-5 in this even lighter green color. IÓd direct your attention to the site plan itself. Again, the homestead roads that I made mention to as indicated here in white is reflected here on this more detailed site plan in this same location, bordering this project site on three different sides. The homestead roads, access to the project site will be provided by these homestead roads, which have a right-of-way of roughly 20 feet with 10-foot wide paved surfaces. The project site itself is about 21.7 acres in size. The applicant's request is to allow for the subdivision of this lot into two lots, one lot being 3 acres in size, the other balance being about 18.7 acres in size. The current Ag-20 zoning would not allow the subdivision of the property. Therefore, that is why the applicant's request is two-phased, meaning from a current zoning designation of Ag-20 into a designation of Ag-10 for the balance of the property, about 18.7 acres, as well as a request to Ag-3 to allow the applicant to basically carve out a 3-acre portion of the project site. The 3-acre, proposed 3-acre lot is indicated here in the northeastern corner, as outlined in yellow. The Director has reviewed the request and find that the applicant's request is consistent with the General Plan as well as the guidelines for granting of a change of zone. Therefore, he is offering a favorable recommendation of this change of zone request subject to conditions of approval. Some of, one of those conditions of approval, and I would like just to emphasize that if you look at your recommendation report, in the back, it will, Condition E, as in Edward, will require that a 15-foot wide road widening easement be estab where the property does abut the homestead road. That is in anticipation that in the future should this area be further developed, that the roadways can be widened to accommodate additional traffic. But given the applicant's limited proposal, which is just the creation of one additional lot, the Department is not requiring any roadway improvements at this time. Further, there was a comment from the Department of Water Supply regarding the availability of, not so much the availability of water but the type of system improvements that would be necessary to support a proposed subdivision. I would like to quickly mention that the property is currently, the applicant currently has secured two water services to support the property, and that is to support two dwellings on this 21-acre project site. In Water Supply's comments, the act of subdivision would require them to basically upgrade the water system with 100,000 gallon reservoir, much larger mains than 2