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HAYASHI:Correct. FUJIKAWA:Thank you. GALDONES:Commissioners, any further questions? Hearing none, will the Applicant or his representative, please step forward? Mr. Fuke, please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the HawaiÒi County Planning Commission? FUKE:I do. GALDONES:Mr. Fuke, state your name and your residence address and you may begin -. Wait, name and address for now. FUKE:Thank you, Mr. Chair. It has been a long day. My name is Sidney Fuke, IÓm a Planning Consultant. IÓm here assisting the Applicant on this matter, Kona Hospitality. Mr. Robert Saunders is also in the audience. HeÓs the local representative for the developer. We also have the architect in the event the Commission wants to ask questions of the architect, Mr. Boone Morrison. The staffÓs Background Report and the Recommendation, as well as the proposed amendment as was circulated by your staff earlier today, were reviewed by the Applicant; and the Applicant found the Background Report, the Recommendatio to be totally accepted. Your staffÓs report was fairly comprehensive as well the presentation. I would like to note, however, that, just for the record, that the property is not on the corner of Kuakini and Sarona Road. There is an intervening parcel between this parcel and the Kuakini Highway. I think Mr. Fujikawa is very familiar with that particular so-called neck-of-the-wood. The architect has, at the instructions of the owner, had designed a building that would be very much typical of the Kona way of life. They had used a lot of the design criteria that was established in the Kailua Village Design Plan; and, as a result, what you see on the poster board is, the rendering rather, is a shot from Sarona Road looking directly at the proposed type of hotel. They intend to use, as you can see, the colors are pretty much along that line. They would want to have like a multi-pitch roof. TheyÓre going to have a railing, you know, at the different levels to just kind of soften the building, retain a lot of the native rock wall, the existing plumeria trees in the front to the extent that they can be retained along Sarona Road. You know, it will all be kept. There is, as your staff point out, there is a crypt located at the southwestern corner of the property; and itÓs identified in orange on the site map. Well, that falls on the subject property. For years it has been the area where it hasnÓt been kept up and it has been just subject to vandalism, and people do drug traffic and all that stuff. So what the architect had done, again, at the direction of the owner, was really try to incorporate that particular crypt into the design of the project. And so by providing this sense of ownership, you 3