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KERN: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Jeff, if my information serves me correctly, the special permit for the Orchidland Trade Center was originally approved five years ago or so and it had to come through for an extension. Is that right? And it was done within the last year or so? DARROW: Originally the Orchidland Trade Center was approved in May of 1994. So since that time theyÓve consistently come in for time extension requests, as well as amendments to their permit. KERN: And when was the last time extension request? DARROW: The last extension was September of 2008 for a five-year period. KERN: Thank you. WOODWARD: Any other questions? Okay. If we could get the applicant and/or representative up and weÓll hear from you. All right. Good morning, gentlemen. MELROSE: Morning. WOODWARD: If I could get you to raise your right hand, IÓll swear you in. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth today before the Windward Planning Commission? MELROSE: I do. MALOOF: I do. WOODWARD: All right. If you could give us your name and address, and then you may begin your testimony. Mr. Melrose, youÓre going to start? MELROSE: Yeah, Well, let me -. Jeff Melrose, 1405 Waianuenue Avenue, Hilo. What IÓd like to do is just take a couple of, I had a couple of other images to this that are in the PowerPoint, just so we see that. And then IÓd like to have, Brooks has prepared thoughts that heÓd like to kind of share with you folks. And then I want to come back and a issues, some of what Taka had already started to raise. But let me just start by looking at a couple of other images, just so we can get, you know, our little bit of that story told as well. So this is that intersection looking directly down Orchidland. You can see the property is on the right. This is the subject property here. So thatÓs the look from the road. This is a picture of Orchidland and the frontage. This is really just to show you the kind of general tending and caring that he took to the property when he got it -- it was quite a mess when he originally acquired it and has cleaned it up and put a nice fence and the like around it -- and, also, to emphasize the importance of the fact that this cleared area is the only area weÓre asking for the special permit. These large lychee trees are probably 40 years old maybe. I mean these are fully matured. ThereÓs a whole orchard of them; and itÓs about 200 feet from the Orchidland intersection to the first entrance into the property. These are mailboxes which I understand serve the Orchidland community and that are being relocated inland. So this, although there are a 7 EXHIBIT A