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that you folks will give us consideration of our small use and b superior project that serves the Orchidland community and the people of Puna. WOODWARD: Thank you. Do we have any questions for Mr. Melrose or Mr. Maloof? WeÓll get to your other questions, your other points in a minute, Jeff. Are there any questions to this point? No? Okay, Mr. Melrose, you had something further? MELROSE: Yeah, thank you. Thank you, Commissioners. You know, before I get started, this is a historic moment here today that I just want to recognize. Norman Hayashi has been doing these Planning Commission meetings for 41 years. This is his last one, he said to me this morning; and I just want to acknowledge that. Because I think as a planner he may well end up on this side of the table in front of you guys at some point in the future. I donÓt know that would say that. But I do think that Norman has taught us all a great deal over the years, and certainly has carried the ball for planning for a long time. So before I start our pitch I really want to acknowledge Norman for his efforts. So there you go, Norman. Thank you for that. HAYASHI: Thank you. MELROSE: You know, Mr. Maloof, is a, I found a very responsible client. You want to kind of understand kind of where Norman, I mean, Brooks is at. HeÓs currently renovating the old Kalakaua Cleaners for this first kind of restaurant operation, just above the Kress Store. And I think his sense of detail and sense of doing the right thing and trying to make a right thing happen is really apparent in that circumstance. I think youÓll see the same thing in the way he carries himself in this circumstance if heÓs approved. I want to say that this is a very modest use. This is not a major traffic generator. ItÓs really intended to serve the community thatÓs already coming and going from that intersection, and the Orchidland Community in general. And in the process of preparing the permit, we had to go back and forth several times. We were very clear about a very narrow slice of uses that we would be allowed to have. This is a special permit. This is not a rezoning, this does not enable a large body of types of uses. ItÓs a special permit. Special permits can and do live outside of General Plan designations. They do all over the place. There are four, there are four special permits in this node. Only one of them is in the General Plan designation. So carrying this sense of the importance of that General Plan line, all youÓve got to do is look at whatÓs already done to know that that is a variable circumstance; and thatÓs quite appropriate to me. The designation of a General Plan is to give you a general feel for where this location should be. 0 So I want to talk about two issues. These are really kind of the two key ones that are here. One is that CDP/GP issue; and one is traffic. The County Planning Department is putting a lot of emphasis on the exact boundary of the GP line. And as I said history already shows you that approvals hav of that. This is simply another effort in close proximity. The last effort, Jeff referred to the last effort of the prior Planning Director to go to the Council at the time of the planning when the General Plan was being adopted, I think this was 2006. They were trying to, he was trying to create a little broadening of this designation, basically to enhance it inland; and I think it went up 11 EXHIBIT A