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They are requesting a State Land Use Boundary amendment from Agricultural to Urban for approximately 10.001 acres. Additionally, they are requesting a Change of Zone from Agricultural 5-acres to Multiple-Family 1,000-square feet or RM-1 for the 10.001 acres. The applicant in this case is proposing to do a 306-unit affordable housing rental project. This is the preliminary layout. There are approximately 18 three-story structures, which they are made up of approximately 90 studio units, 108 one-bedroom units and 108 two-bedroom units. This particular parcel is a part of a previous 50-acre lot subdivision, which was subdivided, this 50-acre lot was subdivided into five lots; you see Lots 1, 2, 3, 4 and then the roadway lot as No. 5. And the particular area that we are looking at is located in this area. You’ll notice that there already is an area that’s been rezoned in this particular area; it’s identified in brown, which is the zoning for Multiple-Family Residential 4,000-square feet. Currently, the applicant is working on a 108-unit affordable housing project on that particular property. We’ve encountered a situation where the applicant -, the Planning Department had sent out a notification to the applicant, requesting that they do the second round of notification where they inform surrounding property owners of the hearing date. Unfortunately, the applicant says that he did not receive that letter, therefore did not do the second notification. It appears, because of this situation, that this application will be continued. I’ll defer to the Corporation Counsel. But before I do that, I’d also like to bring to your attention that we have received a letter this morning from Executive Director, Anthony Ching, from the State Land Use Commission. This is the same letter that is identified as Exhibit 11 within your application. This is a comment letter from the Land Use Commission stating their concerns regarding this application. Additionally, just to bring to your attention, we have Exhibit 12 that the Planning Director had sent response to these particular issues. Additionally, we’ve received – since this application has been forwarded to the Planning Commission – we’ve received a comment letter from the Office th of Housing and Community Development dated July 18; you folks should have gotten that within your packet. With that, I’d like to defer to our Corporation Counsel as to how to proceed with this application. ALAMEDA: Mr. Torigoe? TORIGOE: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Given the lack of notice to the surrounding property owners as required under your Rules and the Codes, I have to recommend deferral or continuance of this matter as well. However, it has been agendized, and the Executive Director of LUC, Mr. Tony Ching, I believe is here and would like to testify, so I think you should allow him to speak to you. You have his written testimony also. But I would not advise going into any kind of deliberation on this because, you know, you don’t want to deprive the surrounding property owners of the opportunity to be involved. ALAMEDA: That sounds like a good recommendation. I agree with it. Can we start? Okay. Applicant, please raise your hand, right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth now before the Hawaii County Planning Commission? DICKLER: I do. ALAMEDA: All right. Would you please state your name and address for the record? EXHIBIT B 2