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SPRINGER:Thank you. Well begin with the gentleman at the desk. Could you please, beginning with Mr. Moore, give your name and address? MOORE:My name is Bill Moore. My address is 159 Halai, H-a-l-a-i Street, Hilo, Hawaii. SPRINGER:Thank you, Mr. Moore. FANG:My name is Yen Wen Fong, my address is 2262 Kilauea Ave., Hilo, Hawaii. SPRINGER:Thank you. Mr. Moore, will you begin? MOORE:Yes.Firstofall,IamrepresentingDJSM,Dr.AlanTakase.Yen is the engineer, the civil engineer on the project. Before I begin, I do want to apologize for the last hearing. I had a family, it was a funeral for my nephew that I was called away to the week before, so I didnt have any time to prep or get Mr. Tsukazaki ready. So I put him in a very untenable situation, as well as the Commission. So I really apologize for the problems and delays and the confusion it caused and, hopefully, we can get a lot of that resolved today. SPRINGER:Thank you, Mr. Moore. MOORE:Just to go over, there were, as I went through the transcripts there really were two issues, two major issues; and within that one major issue two separate, what I would call sub-issues. The first is the appropriateness of the zoning, should this area be in commercial. The area was zoned in 1989, it was reconfirmed in 92 when a proposed subdivision condition was deleted. At the time, the General Plan for this area was High Density Urban as part of the current revisions. And there has been no change to that designation over these years, so it still is in High Density Urban today. In terms of the current General Plan amendments, the amendment was actually to expand the High Density Urban in this area up to Kinoole Street and further over to past Lanikaula. So it is not just acknowledging that this area is appropriate but this area and the surrounding areas are appropriate. You know, we do understand the transitions. There are the residents there and, you know, are willing to work with them. But in terms of the zoning we really feel it is appropriate. The foundations havent changed since this was adopted, and we want, again, I think thats reflected in the staffs recommendation for approval of this time extension. In terms of the flooding, I will do a little bit of discussion and will turn it over to Yen, and were going to kind of work together. Yen has given me a broad and strong education over the last couple of days in terms of drainage and flood studies, and I really 2