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ZELKO:Okay, okay. GRAHAM:We dont have any public testifier signed up yet on this. If anybody here wants to speak to this application, please come over and sign in. Yes, Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA:At our last Hilo meeting we took up an application for the AOAO Professional Building and the big issue there was parking, as you will recall. Now Im looking at this and he wants to put a medical office space in there. And theres only one place that parking is mentioned at all and thats in Condition D which just refers very briefly to Plans shall identify proposed structure(s), fire protection measures, access roadway, driveway and parking stalls. It doesnt say anything about how many parking stalls or any other information. And Im wondering why it was so brief here when we had in previous applications weve had so much more on parking, including, you know, a site plan showing where the proposed parking spaces were and how many there would be for the square footage and the, what is it, for 300 squarefeetandallofthat.SoIwaswonderingifeitherJeffortheDirectorcouldexplaintome why thats not really addressed here. GRAHAM:Jeff? DARROW:Thank you, Mr. Chairman. A standard condition that we have in most rezonings, if not all, has to do with the applicants complying with construction or completion timelines; and prior to that they have to submit plans for plan approval. Plan approval is a very detailed comprehensive review of the project in light of the Zoning Code requirements, and more specifically in regards to parking, the amount of parking that would be required for that particular development. It also includes fire protection measures, access, driveway and parking stalls, as well as landscaping. So to be able to actually identify how many parking stalls are to be proposed for the particular development is, I would say, premature until they submit plans and they can actually identify how much commercial activity or how much floor space, and identifies the amount of parking that will ultimately be needed for the project. SIRACUSA:Follow-up, please? GRAHAM:Yes, Commissioner Siracusa. SIRACUSA:In the case where someone is preparing to build I can see where that would be the case. But here you have the existing building already so you know how much floor space there is. What Im wondering is, and I dont know how well to scale that map is, is there sufficient space on the parcel to accommodate the parking that would be allowed at, what is it, one space per 300 square feet or whatever it is? Because you already have that figure, you already have the building in place. I just want to make sure that the parcel can accommodate the legal amount of parking. GRAHAM:Jeff? DARROW:Yeah, in this particular application because theres one acre of land theres quite a bit of amount of area for parking, more so than if it was just a 20,000-square foot lot. GRAHAM:Commissioner Alameda? 8EXHIBIT B