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YUEN: Yeah, I’d be happy to hear what the applicant is saying on this, but I understand exactly what you’re saying. Just to give my personal attitude is I’m not really favorable to roadside business under the guise of an agriculturally-related special permit. So the smoothie operation, just the coffee stand, the souvenir shop, those kinds of things, my view is they generally belong in a town, in a commercial area in a town. Because otherwise you will start to see a proliferation of roadside businesses operating under special permits. On the other hand, this one had enough of an agricultural tie-in to say that, look, this is actually promoting agricultural uses, not necessarily just of this particular property but of other properties that might be legitimately seeking an outlet. So that tipped it in their favor. The applications are not that easy and there are contrary concerns and considerations. I certainly, you know, you don’t want to see a situation on the island where you drive along and, you know, every half a mile there’s some competing operation that’s trying to snag visitors as they drive by. On the other hand, and this is the site where the agricultural groups are coming from. We do have a visitor based economy and it’s very hard to stay in the agricultural business without some kind of value added; and that often involves, you know, being able to target and market to the visitor as a Hawaii product. So this is the balance here on this particular application. Our look at it was that the balance would be in favor of granting it. Depending on the location and the mix of uses proposed, the balance might be struck differently on another one. DOMINGO: Thank you very much for the explanation. I think that has been said and it’s on record. And I think you sense my concern with regards to a proliferation of this kind of a, I’ll call it a business. And then Mr. Yuen can you commit to adding additional zoning inspectors? YUEN: We’re actively recruiting additional zoning inspectors. GRAHAM: Thank you. Any other discussion now as we have a motion on the floor amongst the Commissioners? I think we’re ready for a vote. Jeff. DARROW: Thank you, Mr. Chair. The motion before us is to approve the Special Permit application with a change to change the permit area from 3 to 4 acres, as well as to include an addition to Condition No. 3 regarding the landscaping buffer along the RS zone property to the southeast, that that particular landscaping requirement will be deferred until a time when it is requested to be put there by the owner. With that I’ll take the roll. Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA: Aye. DARROW: Commissioner Iwashita? IWASHITA: Yes. DARROW: Commissioner Domingo? DOMINGO: Aye. EXHIBIT B 11