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rd 33 Avenue is a short street. It does not go all the way to Paradise Park. It has a deadend rd approximately in this area. Access is from 33 and from the Highway. This particular map, what I’ve done is I’ve indicated with black dots the previous special permits that were issued. The area of the special permit application for this application is identified with a black outline. Previously, as I mentioned, in the past five years we have had four other special rd permits on Makuu and 33. These include: Whitney Investment and Mango Trust, they’re located two lots away from the applicant; Walter Tavares had applied and received a special permit for an auto repair and towing business; Greg Plescia had received a special permit for a commercial kitchen to process foods; and, lastly, Vern Wood had received a special permit for a contractor’s baseyard, mainly for his water business. The applicant in this case is requesting a special permit to allow an uncovered parking lot for up to 15 tractor-trailers, 3 water trucks, a water and freight trailers on a compacted red cinder surface. Also, a storage container to store truck parts and related equipment, a six-foot chain link fence and podocarpus trees along the perimeter to be able to mitigate the visual impacts of the rd parking lot. And, lastly, access will be limited to 33 Avenue. What I’ve done is I’ve put a copy of the area of the General Plan. The dark brown color that you see in the majority of the area is identified as Rural in the General Plan. You’ll see a few orange areas, these are Medium Density Urban that was changed in the last General Plan Amendment. thth We have one area identified on Kaloli between 13 and 15 that’s identified for Industrial uses under the General Plan. This particular area, these applicants that came in previously had unique conditions. They had a five-year permit life for each of these four previous conditions. So every five years they need to come back before the Planning Commission. Three of these four permits had another condition rd that stated no extension of the permit will be granted unless paving was done on 33 Avenue. At this time paving has not been done. At this time also we have two of the applicants that are preparing to come before the Planning Commission for a time extension request. This was a time, in review of this application, for the Planning Director to look at the long-range land use pattern, or land use plan for this particular area; and he has made a decision that this is not an appropriate area to establish a Light Industrial area. It’s not consistent with the General Plan. At this time this area is Rural under the General Plan designation. There are areas located within Keaau that allow for these, and Pahoa, that allow for Industrial-type uses, mainly Shipman Industrial Park. The area near Milo Street is identified for General Plan Industrial uses. We thth have the industrial node, as mentioned, on Kaloli between 13 and 15; and also in Pahoa we have quite a large Urban Expansion area where Malama Market is also located. The Planning Director is recommending that this application be denied at this time, or that it be deferred until we receive a response from a correspondence that the Planning Director had sent rd out to lot owners on both the mauka side and the makai side of 33 asking for their opinion as to whether or not they would be supportive of seeing this area being transitioned into a Light Industrial area. These letters have been submitted to the Planning Commission for review. They do go into detail as to what is requesting of these land owners, and also it has questions for them whether they would be supportive of participating in improvements, such as road improvements, water improvements, and landscaping improvements. Again, at this time the Planning Director EXHIBIT C 2