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GALDONES:Mr. Moore, could you please state your name, your resident address. MOORE:Yes, thank you. My name is Bill Moore. I'm a planning consultant representing the owner, Paul Ogasawara, who's in the audience. My address is 159 Hla`i Street, Hilo 96720. GALDONES:Mr. Moore, have you received a copy of the Background Report and the Recommendations? MOORE:Yes, we have. GALDONES:Do you have any comments on them? MOORE:Yes, we do. Again, we are pleased that the Planning Department is recommending approval of Condition D. We do believe that the request for Condition C is reasonable and ask that that be retained as requested, that the sidewalk improvements be deferred for the service station. Again, we're not looking to eliminate this condition, we're looking to defer it. The, again, the way the condition reads, if he does anything beyond what was provided in the traffic study, then he would have to put in those sidewalk improvements at that time. And, again, this is consistent with the traffic study. It's also consistent with the Department of Public Works' comments on this. In fact, I did meet with Department of Public Works, and got their concurrence before we even submitted or prepared the application. So we went in there again with the, at least concurrence of Public Works that it was reasonable to defer the sidewalk improvements. GALDONES:Norman, did the Department have some problems grappling with the request by the Applicant for a deferral? HAYASHI:Defer? GALDONES:The deferral of the curbs, gutters, and sidewalk. HAYASHI:We felt that just to be consistent with a previous application in that area, which was the property situated across the street, that we'd like to retain the curb, gutter, sidewalks for any, prior to any developing occurring on that property, or simultaneously with the development of that property. GALDONES:So there was another applicant in which you folks had acted upon and -? 3