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BRODER:My name is Sherry Broder and I am the Hearings Officer appointed by the Planning Commission for the County of Hawaii. GALDONES:Thank you. TSUKAZAKI:Ben Tsukazaki, I am the attorney for the Applicant. GALDONES:Mr. Yuen? YUEN:Go ahead. ARAI:My name is Daryn Arai. IÓm representing the Planning Department. Sitting next to me is our Planning Director, Christopher Yuen. GALDONES:Okay. Thank you very much. Mrs. Broder? BRODER:Okay. I have submitted a report to the Planning Commissi its Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law and Recommendation. ItÓs 33 pages long so IÓm not going to go over all the details. I wanted just draw your attention to page, starting on page 28, which is the Recommendation and it includes the most part, I adopted the conditions proposed by the Planning Director and I added a few additions based on the testimony and the evidence that was p If you go back to page 4, it describes what the Applicant was willing to agree to itself. So the Applicant, which is Doutor Coffee, in its application indicated that it would follow these guidelines. So all of these guidelines are incorporated into the limitations on the permit. These include assigned days and time, a period of time the tours, the business hours, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Applicant indicated that they would agree to a certain decibel level for the noises. They wanted to include, in No. 3 they said the guest arrivals will be no more than 80 per day. Item ÐdÑ wa retail non-agricultural items within two existing gazebos, not to exceed a gross floor area of 1,000 square feet, although with the possibility of future expansion. They said that they would turn on their water fountain feature which is actually quite a large feature, itÓs a big, big reflecting pool, only during business hours, and only when guests and visitors were present. They do serve food on the premises; they indicated that they would abide by family-style picnics, except on Sundays. They said that they would have special events directly associated with products grown on the subject property. Other types of functions such as weddings, farmerÓs market, craf permitted. They said large tour buses will be discouraged from property. I thought that, we did a site visit and I thought it was quite evident that thereÓs a traffic problem on Mamalahoa Highway, that the large buses were a problem for the residents and that -. We followed the route that the large tour buses would take in terms of dropping visitors off on an unimproved site at the present time where rocks were moved, back-and-forth, depending on whether or not the tour buses are there, and then go 3