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Island Country Club golf course. Its a one-acre parcel. The applicants Peter and Patricia Patrick are requesting a special permit to establish a Wellness Center on approximately 1/3 of an acre of the one-acre parcel. Looking at the site map submitted by the Applicants. This would be Mamalahoa Highway travelling in an east-west direction again directly across from the entrance of the Big Island Country Golf Course. We have the driveway connecting to the highway that comes on the east-west side of the property. And in the red area is identified as the proposed Wellness Center, which will be built in a traditional barn style. Within your application they actually have what appears to be a proposed layout for the barn. The, on the property at this time is an existing 3-bedroom, 2-bath house. Theres a large yard area. And the applicants again are proposing to construct a barn as well as a parking area for the Wellness Center. The applicants Patricia and, Peter and Patricia Patrick- Peter has a background in psychology and developmental disabilities as well as, he is a physical therapist. Patricia is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist with over 40-years of experience. The Planning Department had requested additional information regarding the definition of a Wellness Center and their proposed uses. ThiswassubmittedtousbytheapplicantsonMay26andismadepartofyourrecord.IfImay just read what they identify as a Wellness Center. Its a place to gather and be guided on the path to self awareness and self actualization on a physical, spiritual and mental level using a variety of non-medical techniques which can include Shigong movements, meditation, dancing, singing, dream interpretation, walking, playing, interpretive artwork and textile therapy for the senses, eye, ear, nose and breath and it continues on in the letter. We, the Planning Department has received several letters of support from the applicants from people in the area and weve received one letter of concern from Mr. and Mrs. Whittemore, which is also part of your record. The Planning Director within the Recommendation had pointed out that there is no clear definition of a Wellness Center and therefore he has placed in the recommendation condition number 2 which recommends that the type and scale of the activities and the physical improvements to the property shall be in substantial conformance to the description in the application. Therefore in the future if these, if the Patricks were to sell the property and a new owner would come in they would not create a new use that would be under supposedly the guides of a Wellness Center but that the only activity that would be allowed there by this Special Permit would be very similar to what is being proposed today. There was within the letter from the Whittemores a concern regarding the driveway access and that has been handled under condition number 6, which requires the applicants to conform- that the connection, the driveway connection to Mamalahoa Highway be approved by the Department of Transportation. The Planning Director is recommending approval by the Planning Commission of this Special Permit. Are there any questions? GALDONES:Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA:Yes I was noticing the letter from the Whittemores their item number 2, barn style structure to be constructed for the Wellness Center shall not be used for any other purpose than what has been represented in this application and yet this property is part of a State Land Use Agricultural District and Im wondering if at some point in the future this property gets transferred to someone else does this mean that the barn cannot be used as a barn? DARROW:The- EXHIBIT D 2