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permit for the re-establishment of a neighborhood store. This is the former Morihara Store. Looking at the site plan submitted by the applicants, the existing store is identified in red and again this is located directly across the intersection of Keala O Keawe Road. We have Hawaii Belt Road running in a north-south direction. This area identified in brown is the proposed parking area and the applicants had proposed access in this location here. We had received comments from the Department of Public Works and they were concerned regarding the sight distance to the south. In this particular area theres an area that extends out makai and makes it difficult for people travelling in a northern direction to be able to see people coming out of the store area or for people coming out of the store area to see vehicles coming from the south. The Planning Director requested a sight analysis report be conducted by the applicant. At that time the first report was done by engineer Bruce Witcher, which confirmed the inadequate sight distance of the area in this location. The Planning Director requested that an additional sight analysis report be conducted but this time looking at an access point 100 feet to the north. After that was conducted it was seen that sight distance would be acceptable in this particular area. ThePlanningDirectorhasaddedacondition,conditionnumber7,whichhasbeenpassedoutto the Planning Commission. Weve added the following sentence to condition number 7: The access point shall be moved approximately 100 feet to the north of the proposed access. So again proposed access was in the area of the parking lot. The new access will be located, in the pictures youll see a guardrail, itll be right before the guardrail to the south. Other conditions to mention: Condition number 4, which states that the square footage of the building will be limited to the present store size. Condition number 5 hours of operation shall be from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and again Condition number 7 not only speaking about the access point but also that the parking lot shall be constructed to the north of this store. The Planning Department has not received any letters from the general public on this application. The Planning Director is recommending that this be approved by the Planning Commission. Are there any questions? SPRINGER:Commissioners? Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA:I was looking at the background report page 2 where it describes the property and it says that there are 10,000 square feet of land for the store and parking area and the remainder of the property consists of 3 acres planted in macadamia nut trees and approximately 1 acre planted in coffee trees. 3 acres plus 1 acre plus 10,000 square feet does not equal 6.16 acres which is what were told this parcel is and I was wondering if you could clarify that discrepancy? DARROW:Well the remainder of the- you want to know what the remainder of the property? SIRACUSA:Yeah, yeah. DARROW:Okay, if we could defer that to the applicant I believe its unimproved land. In the application they informed us that 4 acres are planted in particular types of agricultural activity and theyre requesting 10,000 square feet of area for this. So, I would, if I could defer that question to the applicants representative to confirm what the remainder is. EXHIBIT A 2