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down the highway, turned around in a cemetery, and then wait across the street in front of some mail boxes with the engines running. That seem to me to be totally unacceptable; and then the buses have to cross the highway in order to pick up the visitors when theyÓre done with the tour. So, youÓll see that, what the Planning Director recommended, and I accepted his recommendation, is that the large tour buses not be obvious from the common sense point of view that the Mamalahoa Highway is crowded and difficult to accommodate tour buses of that size, and that the procedure that they were following to disembark and pick up customers was not safe. They have a 20-stall paved parking area, and that is inside the premises. During the proceedings before the Hearings Officer Doutor had represented that no weddings have been held in the property and none were intended. I note that in their exceptions to the Hearings OfficerÓs report, they said that they want to have weddings there but not commercial weddings. During the proceedings, they represented specifically that no weddings were intended and there was no distinction made during the proceedings. So based on that I took no evidence on whether weddings, no evidence whatsoever on weddings because I felt that it wasnÓt an issue in the proceedin They said that they, they insist that they characterized this as owners that come, the owners from the evidence that was produced at the hearing, franchisees from Japan. So Doutor Coffee has the equivalent of what is like a Starbucks in Japan and so they have, the evidence at the hearing was that they had approximately a thousand outlets all over Japan. So I donÓt know how many owners that makes for the Doutor Coffee property or how many of those people would qualify. So I think to keep it simple and not have a lot of litigation later on, that the original representation that wa Officer of no weddings should be followed. Number 15 describes the current improvements on the property: two gazebos, the picnic barbecue area with kitchen, which is quite, which is good-sized, the restroom/storage building, tractor/storage shed, open pavilion and restroom with a reflecting pool and water feature. The reflecting pool is quite large and the water feature has water that comes up right, not as big as the, whatÓs her name, Dion at the Belagio in Las Vegas, but it still comes up pretty good. Then next door is a neighbor and his property is right close to the parking lot; and he testified that large tour buses had blocked his driveway access. And, of course, since heÓs the adjacent neighbor, he can hear and see the visitors and activities on the property. I note that another neighbor has also filed exceptions with the Planning Commission since my report was filed; and he says various neighbors are in different parts of the property but they also complain about noise on the subject property. There were, okay -. So it is my opinion, after I heard the evidence that and also saw the site, that the large tour buses cannot be accommodated on the property at the present time. Number 20 describes how the tour buses, the large tour buses, access the property, is as IÓve previously described to you. 4