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YUEN: Yeah, I wanted to give the Commission a chance to ask a number of <br />questions and to have the Commission go through whatever issues that they had. As I said, I’m <br />willing to reconsider our, the Department brought this request to the Commission to revoke the <br />permit because we were not seeing any actions from the letters that we sent asking for <br />compliance with conditions of the permit. I have to say I’m a little concerned about the answers <br />that I’m hearing. Because the Department, we sent a letter to you saying the permit has been <br />granted, these are the conditions; and they’re not things that are your choice to do, whether you <br />feel like doing them or not. The Commission did not just say you can go do your base yard. <br />They said you can do your base yard but there are certain conditions that you have to meet in <br />connection with that; and they’re important. The things that you said when you talked earlier <br />about the services that you performed to the community, those were the kinds of things that led <br />the Commission, I think, to grant you the permit, the usefulness of having the business in the <br />area that provides these kinds of hauling serves. At the same time it wasn’t just, yes, go ahead <br />and run your business however you feel like doing it. There were certain things that had to be <br />done and they’re not just paperwork. They did involve moving the vehicles off the site. And I <br />want to give the Commission a chance to go through its questions that it may have; and at the <br />end of that questioning I’d like to comment on whether the Department, what course of action <br />the Department would recommend after hearing the reasons that the applicant has given for not <br />doing some of the things that they were supposed to do. <br />GRAHAM: All right, follow-up? <br />WATANABE: I’ll follow-up. <br />GRAHAM: Commissioner Watanabe? <br />WATANABE: Yeah, the reason I brought that up is because I was really opposed to this <br />special permit on the first hearing. And one of the reasons I was opposed to it was because of <br />the traffic conditions and limited site distance, and the comments that the Department of <br />Transportation had made regarding entry onto Mamalahoa. And after that meeting and after, I <br />guess, as a Commission we went against your original recommendation, there was some <br />discussion about that. And suggestion was made that maybe we could have added like a caution <br />light there, you know, like in some areas you have limited site distance, caution lights or hidden <br />driveway kind of caution lights. And I’m wondering if that might, if in the end we’re going to <br />reconsider this revocation if that might be something we want to add in to cover a base that we <br />possibly missed the first time around. And, again, I kind of stand by my original statement that I <br />don’t think I’d be really in favor of letting this project or the special permit continue without a <br />fine, because I think it’s going to be a continual enforcement problem. I don’t think he can <br />waive it. <br />GRAHAM: Thank you, Commissioner Watanabe. <br />RHO: Mr. Chairman? <br />GRAHAM: Commissioner Rho? <br /> EXHIBIT A <br />8 <br /> <br />