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HAYASHI:Okay. My understanding is that the time of the lease is up till 2015; however, the Applicants have asked Mr. Ian Bernie from the State Harbors Division to appear today to explain some of the lease, the terms of the leases. But these, as far as the zoning of these properties, these are also zoned General Industrial. GALDONES:Okay, thank you. ALAMEDA:Thank you, Mr. Galdones. Other questions, Fellow Commissioners, for Norman? I have a thought. There are two potential contested issues that we need to deal with, correct? HAYASHI:That is correct. ALAMEDA:I need to check with our Corp. Counsel. I would like to invite the Applicant up to speak generally about the application and then maybe address the potential Contested Case issues. TORIGOE:Right, that’d be fine. You know, you can let the Applicant just fill out whatever background they want to do at this point just as introduction and then the first order of business has to be to deal with the Contested Case requests under your Rule 4-7. ALAMEDA:Okay. Very well. Will the Applicant or its representative please come forward. Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth now before the Hawai`i County Planning Commission? FUKE:I do. ALAMEDA:Thank you. You may proceed. FUKE:Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Members of the Commission. My name is Sidney Fuke. I’m a planning consultant assisting Brian Kitagawa, Kitagawa and Co., Ltd. Brian, Mr. Kitagawa is also seated in the audience. He has had a chance to review the staff’s Background Report and the proposed Recommendation and found that to be acceptable. I hear what your counsel is saying that the whole issue of the Contested Case portion would be deferred, I guess, subsequent to just general opening comments. In that regards, I had passed out some material that possibly may be more germane or pertinent to the Contested Case portion but, and perhaps I can kind of defer to that component a little bit later.But generally, as you know, in response to a question to the, by the Commissioners to the staff, there was a car dealership established way back in 1967. And at that time it was called the Volkswagen and the Petitioner or the family had title to this property for like, I don’t know, maybe generations I guess. And subsequent to the Volkswagen, then it changed to like a different type of dealership; they had Datsun; and then Datsun became Nissan. And at one point in time, if you remember traveling that area, you also used to see a motorcycle dealership in that area. And more recently since probably like three or four years ago, it was then, it has now been utilized as a used car operation. EXHIBIT A 4