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DEFRANCO: When you lift it up and I think Commissioner Vitousek was <br /> mentioning too about the sight. How much higher again was it from the previous, from the <br /> neighbors, what do you — <br /> ROY: I didn't measure to the neighbors but from previous it's only 4-foot <br /> difference, a 4-foot height difference. <br /> DEFRANCO: Okay, thank you. <br /> ROY: Yeah. <br /> DEFRANCO: Are there any other questions for the County? No, okay. Thank <br /> you. So, we're going to hear now from the applicant's presentation. So, we have John Pipan and <br /> Frank Sirlin via Zoom. So, I'm going to get you to raise your hand and to swear you in and to tell <br /> the truth today before the Leeward Planning Commission. <br /> PIPAN: I do. <br /> DEFRANCO: You do. And Frank are you and you do too. Okay, thank you. <br /> Okay, now just again please speak directly into your mic. All right, and you've received the <br /> background recommendation and reports from the Planning Department? <br /> PIPAN: We have, yes. <br /> DEFRANCO: And do you agree with the recommendations including all of the <br /> conditions? <br /> PIPAN: Yes, we agree. <br /> DEFRANCO: And so now, please proceed with your presentation. <br /> PIPAN: Aloha kakou. John Pipan, I live just outside of Honoka`a here on <br /> the Big Island. Thank you all very much for your time and dedication to this process. Thanks <br /> Deputy Director Darrow, Planning Department staff for the excellent presentation, the favorable <br /> recommendation, and the hard work that went into evaluating this request. We think the merits of <br /> this request that were outlined just previously by Mr. Roy are significant and that we are retreating <br /> from the shoreline voluntarily. We're starting with an old property that's been developed for <br /> decades right so the first home was built late 50's early 60's. It was added on to in the mid-70's <br /> compliant with all the rules and regulations at that time. All of those rules have changed over the <br /> intervening decades. So, what we've got now is a legal development that doesn't conform to <br /> current rules in terms of its setback from the shoreline primarily and the compliance with the flood <br /> zone regulations. So, this is what we're starting with. <br /> Mr. Sirlin, the applicant, has been very proactive,very conservation minded. The idea to reuse, <br /> salvage, recoup many of the building materials from the existing dwelling and incorporate those as <br /> he can into the new dwelling came from him. I didn't have to push for the enhanced aerobic <br /> 10 <br /> EXHIBIT A <br />