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proposing to do – and I’m hoping it’s okay with the Commission – is that in front of that deck, since the ground has been disturbed by the construction of the deck, to really hire professional landscapers and put in a very, very beautiful garden with trees that are strategically placed but not to just totally reforest it, but a beautiful garden that then could be used as an adjunct to the type of outdoor work that I would do with children. Dr. Juvik was in support of that as compared to just reforesting that land. SIRACUSA: Okay. Part of the reason why I’m asking these questions is because I want to figure out if we need to put in something in addition to Rule 17 Landscaping, you know, about hiding that part of the deck; but it seems like you’ve already got that planned out. I do mention that considering that you are within, you know, you’ve got the forest there and a lot of native forest birds and Alala, I hope that you will concentrate on native species of vegetation when you do that, but I’m not about to micromanage and put it in the condition. R. LELAH: We will do the best with that, Commissioner. WATANABE: Thank you. Maybe at this time I should remind the Commissioners as well as the audience that we have quite a few people here that want to testify. We also have a rather full agenda. And so I think we need to work to hurry this along because at our last special meeting when we discussed the Puna Community Development Plan, we ran from 6 to 10 o’clock just with testimony, okay. We tried to limit testimony to five minutes and we never ever deliberated on any of it; we never discussed it because we only had the facility till 10 o’clock. So I’d like to make sure that, you know, we get to address all of these issues, rather than focusing on smaller issues maybe -. MOOERS: Mr. Chairman, can I make a comment? WATANABE: Yes. MOOERS: I know that Dr. Lelah has a number of supporters that have appeared today. And if there is no opposition and if it looks like the votes are there for the Special Permit, we would ask those people not to testify, if that would accelerate your program. WATANABE: I appreciate that, but I’m a little leery of restricting public testimony; so if you all could be brief, and I have twelve testifiers signed up -. By the way – maybe I’m getting ahead of myself – just for the record, are there any further questions of the applicant? None. Okay, then you all may be seated then. Thank you. Again, I have twelve testifiers signed up; I’d like to limit you all to three minutes each, and I’d like to ask you to please not be redundant. If you are in support of it, I think, you know, coming up and being brief about why you are in support of this particular Special Permit will suffice. And so with that, may I call up the first – yeah, we have four chairs – first four who signed up: Pio Humphreys, Hank Silva, Michelle McClellan and Michael Toia. So will those four please come up. Would you all raise your right hand, so I can swear you in. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth now before the Planning Commission? TESTIFIERS: Yes. EXHIBIT A 13