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the permit, I would guarantee you that landscaping will be up quickly because he wants to park his trucks there as soon as possible, and his lease expires in October. As far as roadway paving, he’s also supportive of paving the roadway. He, in fact, and it has been difficult to get all the owners to get together to pave the road. They all have these five-year permits. But he has obtained an estimate for paving the roadway , he’s willing to work with the other owners and make sure that the roadway does get paved. As far as, somebody mentioned an rd improvement on 33 that Carnor made. He made that at the request of the Association so that there would be a better turning radius. They asked that a sign be moved, that is private so he did do that. How many months ago? SUMIDA: Seven months ago. SONG: Okay, all right. I also want to apologize for submitting something so late to the Commission, and also that it’s such a thick packet. But what it really is, all those exhibits are the prior special permits that this Commission has issued in the area; and I thought that the Commission should have those permits. And each of those permits, and those permits are as rd Mr. Darrow said for two contractor’s baseyard, one is on 33, the other one is across the highway, a towing and automobile repair shop, a commercial kitchen and a warehouse. Now when I looked at, part of submitting this so late is we also received the recommendation very late. I received the recommendation Wednesday; and since Mr. Yuen is recommending against it I felt that it was important to respond to Mr. Yuen’s comments and his recommendation. And I submit to you, if you look at Mr. Yuen’s recommendation in light of the findings of this Commission in the five prior permits, there is no basis for his recommendation. Mr. Yuen just doesn’t want to see this area used at all for Light Industrial. His position is go to the Industrial area. The industrial area of Shipman is about 9 miles away. That’s a long way away. The area thth of 14 and Paradise, 14 and Kaloli, which is General Plan designation, it is owned by Watamull, the developer of Paradise Park, there are no plans to develop that area. It’s three miles to bring water down to the area. And you very well know that if that area were ever zoned, and it would be a boundary amendment and a rezoning, it would take a minimum of five years, and the County would require Kaloli probably to be improved to dedicable standards. The costs for that kind of zoning for a project would be astronomical. There needs to be a place, places in Puna where small businesses can survive. A special permit is a way on Ag land to allow a small business. If you follow Mr. Yuen’s advice and say Mr. Sumida move to the Industrial area then every water hauler with more than one water truck, and most of them do, will be put out of business in the Puna area, except for Keaau Service, because there won’t be available land. Where are they going to move? This is a permit that will allow a vehicle for Mr. Sumida to be there in a permitted fashion. And you can also impose conditions on that permit to mitigate any impacts that may be unreasonable, particularly the visual impacts. Now I would like to point out that Mr. Yuen has alleged that this use is not a reasonable use because he says that it’s going to create traffic safety problems with 15 to 20 additional trucks traveling the road. There are not going to be 15 to 20 additional trucks traveling on the road. In addition Mr. Yuen sent out, as he always does, this application to all sorts of agencies, including the State Department of Transportation. And the State Department of Transportation specifically said they don’t see any problems or adverse impacts on the State Highways. The Department of Public Works did not say there’s any problem. And the Police also said the staff upon reviewing the provided documents and visiting the proposed site does not anticipate any EXHIBIT C 9