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Manono Street and we have Kekuanaoa which is a street that goes to the airport, and Hualani Street. The area of this application is identified in blue. Asyoucan see the surrounding zonings, its identified by color. The yellow identifies the Single Family Residential 10,000 square foot zoning. The lighter pink shades is the Neighborhood Commercial zoning and the darker orange is the Commercial, General Commercial zoning. The applicant, Kathy Tripp, is requesting a change of zone from Single Family Residential 10,000 square feet (RS-10) to a Neighborhood Commercial 20,000 square feet (CN-20) zoned district. If I can refer your attention to the site plan that has been submitted by the applicants. Manono Street is identified on the top of the map. The applicant at this time owns and operates Kilauea Creations in Volcano Village. They would like to expand their business and open a facility within Hilo. On the property at this time there is an existing structure thats 1246 square feet in size.Itwasconstructedin1914.Theapplicantwishestorenovatetheinterioroftheexisting structure to be able to use it for retail use for their business, Kilauea Creations. They are proposing to maintain the original design of the exterior. Again, the structure is over 50 years old and its something that they want to maintain as far as the overall ambiance of the property. They are proposing to put an 8-stall parking lot in the back for employees and guests. The proposed driveway, there will be one access, an egress and ingress from Manono Street identified in this particular layout. Since the application has been completed, we have received a comment letter from Civil Defense Agency requesting that the applicant submit an emergency response plan. And so weve revised our conditions and added in Condition L which requires the applicant to submit an emergency response plan to the Civil Defense Agency. The Planning Department has not received any letters of support or objections for this particular application. The Planning Director is recommending that the Planning Commission send a favorable recommendation to the Hawaii County Council. Are there any questions? ALAMEDA:Fellow Commissioners? Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA:Yes. That commercial right across the street in the pink, whats in there? DARROW:At this time it is vacant. I believe that there might be a picture thats being passed around that shows that vacant area. It is, in the background report it speaks about this particular change of zone that occurred previously. But at this time there are no improvements on these two particular properties. ALAMEDA:Commissioner McCall and then Commissioner Graham? MCCALL:The Atebara Potato Chips factory is kitty-corner there? Now that one is just grandfathered in? Its still RS-10 for that parcel? DARROW:Correct. That would identified in this particular property directly or kitty- corner from the request. 2EXHIBIT A