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If I may direct your attention to the location map. The area of this application is going to <br />be within the Kohanaiki Business Park. This red line here is the SMA line running along <br />Queen Kaahumanu Highway, running in a north/south direction. This area down here is <br />the previous Rutter application, if you recall that. And then this area here is the recently <br />Clifto’s project that we had been dealing with. This area here is the Kaloko Light <br />Industrail Park; and this area here is Kaiminani Drive, just to give you bearings on <br />location where this is. As you come south towards Kona on Queen, you would take a left <br />going mauka into the business park. This will be on Hulikoa Drive; and this little dot <br />here in red signifies where the application location is at.The applicants in this case, <br />Shawn Nakakura and Sam Lee, are requesting a use permit to allow the operation of a <br />cremation business for both humans and animals. The application, the request is to allow <br />cremation of human animal remains within EPA approved ovens that are built <br />specifically for that purpose. There will be no funeral services held on-site. <br />The reason for the request is that, at this time, there are two locations in Hawaii, the Big <br />Island, where cremation of human occurs. This is located within East Hawaii. There is <br />one facility for pet cremation, again, this is in East Hawaii. Having a facility in West <br />Hawaii will both save time to be able to allow loved ones to have, I mean, residents of <br />West Hawaii to have loved ones returned to them quicker and to save costs in <br />transportation. Again, we have had a petition for standing in a contested case hearing <br />from Mr. Edmund Wong. <br />FUJIKAWA: Commissioners, any questions of staff? Ms. Springer? <br />SPRINGER:Just to reorient me, could you please point out where the property <br />owned by the petitioner for standing is situated? <br />DARROW:Thank you, Commissioner Springer. Just to the north of the <br />business park, there is this parcel here located between this larger parcel. It runs right <br />along the boundary of the business park; and this is the property that the petitioners are <br />associated with. <br />SPRINGER:And, question, is the property owned by the petitioner’s family, <br />does it share a border with the Lee and Nakakura property? <br />DARROW:Yes it does. <br />SPRINGER:Shares a boundary with the -? <br />DARROW:Correct. <br />SPRINGER:Thank you. <br />FUJIKAWA:Any other questions, Commissioners, to the staff? <br />2 <br /> <br />