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WATANABE: Yes, Ms. Siracusa. SIRACUSA: Referring back to the other shot of the deck as seen from the side where you can see all the (speaker noise) substructure -. DARROW: Unfortunately, it appears that our system is being interrupted by cell phones. So if we could ask if anyone does have cell phones even on vibrate, it might be better to just turn them off at this time. Thank you. SIRACUSA: Thank you. And the -, Jeff, you said that the picture was taken – that’s the one, back, yeah, that’s the one – was taken from the Juvik property. DARROW: Correct. SIRACUSA: So I’m wondering what kind of distance do we have there, and is there some landscaping between those two parcels that -, I mean, did you have to be on Dr. Lelah’s side of the property line when you took that picture or was it from the Juvik side? DARROW: This – just to clarify, we had someone from the Kona staff go out for us and take some pictures for us – but this picture is from the Juvik’s property looking towards the applicant’s property that I believe – and the applicant can correct me if I’m wrong – I believe that the property line is pretty close where that yellow tape is on the ground. Is that correct? R. LELAH: Yes, that’s correct, Commissioner. DARROW: Okay. So there was an issue that the deck may have been infringing on the setback; so at this time the applicant was in the process of cutting back the deck to be out of the setback but they had come to agreement with Mr. Juvik to even cut it back further. One of our conditions is going to require the applicant to put landscaping between the two properties. SIRACUSA: That was the basis for my question; I was going to try to figure out how close to the property line that was. So -, because it looks like something really ugly to look at from a neighbor’s side, and I was wondering, if the landscaping would be further away on the boundary, it seems to me that you would still need some landscaping around the base of this deck in order to hide that. Was that your intention? R. LELAH: Yes, I can address that, Commissioner. First of all, that picture for the purposes of this meeting is actually -, doesn’t represent what this is going to end up being. The land drops off significantly as you move toward makai. And what I had spoken to Dr. Juvik about was that we are actually going to be removing most of that deck. So most of that is not even going to be there; only the back 25 feet of the deck will remain. And if you would look at the post and pier that holds the makai region of that 25 feet, it’s much less in height than anything like what this is. So that’s the first part, that the deck will be really quite small. The second part is that when I spoke with Dr. Juvik, we were talking about he wants to -, where the yellow string is over there, that actually is the property line and then his setback area and he wants to plant some koa and things over there, as he told me on the phone. What I was EXHIBIT A 12