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testifying against this. The Paradise Park Community Association has supported it. Mrs. Naeole from the Council, Councilwoman Naeole has supported this. The only, not one agency that was sent for comments has opposed it. The only person that’s opposed is Mr. Yuen because he feels in his mind, I believe he feels, that industrial uses belong in the Industrial zoned district; and we just don’t have it. Finally, Mr. Yuen is also saying that the use is contrary to the General Plan because this is zoned Orchards -- You have all of these five permits attached -- I’m sorry, General Plan for Orchards, for Rural, I’m sorry. Whether the General Plan was Orchards as it was prior to the last amendment to the General Plan or whether it was Rural, each one of these five permits, the findings of the Commission with the recommendation of Mr. Yuen was that the special permit was consistent with the General Plan. In this case now he’s saying it’s inconsistent. So there’s more than ample authority for you as a Commission to find that this permit meets all the standards for special permits. It is not changed by this one permit, it is not changing the whole character of the area. In addition, if other permit holders have violated the terms of their permit, you shouldn’t hold it against Carnor Sumida, and you can’t hold it against Carnor Sumida. rd Carnor on his own made this improvement to 33 before he even had a right to use the property. So he has already expended his time and money here. He is willing to live with conditions that would require his occupancy, conditioned upon doing the necessary improvements; and I believe that this Commission then could properly issue a permit. Now if you have any questions, I’d be glad to answer them. WATANABE: Yes, Ms. Siracusa. SIRACUSA: I have a whole bunch of questions, but Mr. Watanabe will not allow me to fire them at you one at a time. So for one thing Mr. Gapp, I think his name was, had talked about the waterline and ripping up the road and then putting -. We’ve seen that the County used to do a lot of that, put the road in and then rip it up for a waterline, and then they’d have to repave it and it becomes all lumpy. So I’m glad that people are finally thinking along those lines. But I’d like to know what your position is about that, cause you heard Mr. Gapp’s testimony. SONG: Oh, okay. I think what Mr. Gapp was talking about, what Mr. Yuen wants to see done is a road improvement, a 12-inch waterline for fire protection purposes, and I think he talked about a 20-foot landscaped buffer on both the mauka and makai sides. What has been required up till now is a 20-foot paved road. And it is correct, Mr. Woodward is correct, if you want to put in your waterlines, if only 20 feet is paved you don’t have to tear up the road. If you have a road that is more to County dedicable standards, for example if you want the full 40 feet of the right-of-way paved which is unlike any other place in Paradise Park, any other road in Paradise Park, then you would have to tear it up and put in the improvements. I can’t tell you if you put in a 12-inch line how big a ditch you have to make that would go into the easement, because that 12-inch water line is a pretty big thing to put in. So, and I’m not an engineer so I can’t answer that. WATANABE: Yes, Ms. Siracusa. SIRACUSA: Yes. You mentioned about the landscaping mauka and makai. There is, one of the other special permit people has podocarpus and they have it along the Highway side. That’s where I see it, so I don’t know if it’s on the makai side as well. And it does a really good EXHIBIT C 11