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BOWMAN: Right there. YUEN: Right there, that’s the ocean. DARROW: Okay. And then this is the property. BOWMAN: Okay. WATANABE: Right. Those are actually two lots, I believe, what you’re pointing to there. DARROW: And then I’ll put it back so you can again refer to it. WATANABE: Okay. Well, I guess it’s all more like testimony technically. So since you’re already sworn in and we’re not going to proceed any further with the staff presentation, maybe you can do the presenting, Mr. Yeh, for the applicant. YEH: Yes, thank you, Mr. Chairman. First of all, yeah, this is a little bit of a different context that we’re in because of the hybrid nature of these kinds of applications. Normally when the SMAA application comes in for an SMA minor there actually isn’t any notice given to surrounding property owners, and administratively the Planning Director can issue that permit. While the applicant does want to give the Commission a brief outline of what transpired from even the time before the application was submitted to the present, we do want to reserve our ability because not having now seen the entire Planning Department presentation to be able to respond to it, to be able to at least have that opportunity at the next scheduled meeting for this matter. What you have in front of you also as part of the Planning Department’s presentation and materials is, if you take a look at their Exhibit F, and I’m not sure you all have that, you will see that that’s the blown-up version of what’s on the screen. But you will see that there’s a red vehicle and then there’s a couple of vehicles that you’ll see actually parked on what is Waiopae Road. The applicant’s property is actually approximately where that blue vehicle is. And our position is that the applicant’s property which is mauka of where that blue vehicle is does not abut the shoreline, pretty clearly. There is what I would probably characterize as a super high tide, some water that comes from the ocean and goes on to a portion of Waiopae Road. Now Waiopae Road is a lot in and of itself. So we’re talking about what property abuts the shoreline, clearly the one that’s makai of Waiopae Road and even at the greatest stretch Waiopae Road itself, but not the applicant’s property. And so as you’ve seen from our presentation that’s part of the thrust of what our position is here today, is if you take a look at the rule itself it says “shoreline survey required for properties which abut the shoreline.” EXHIBIT A 6