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With regard to noise, the activity that is actually on the property is quite limited. The employees will arrive in the morning between 7:00 and 7:30 a.m. to pick up the delivery vehicles. They will leave the property shortly thereafter and go to do their pickups. They do not return to the property until the end of the day when all of the deliveries have been made. So, basically, they are arriving to get the vehicles and then returning them to the property. He does do a limited amount of on-site repair and maintenance, but this is only routine maintenance. He does not utilize any heavy equipment or activities that generate a whole lot of noise. The larger vehicles that are used, the dump trucks and the tractor trailers that are utilized for more construction-related types of activities are not a large part of his business activity right now. He has indicated to me that that part of the business is clearly secondary to his home delivery business for Sears and Home Depot. As far as the site distance is concerned, the concern raised by the Department of Public Works, the property is situated on a curve and currently, and I’m mainly talking about sight distance to the south of the property because when the vehicles leave the property, they’re making right turns onto Ainaola and would need to take, I mean, would need to look to the south of the property before they enter Ainaola. That site distance is approximately 200 feet. But upon inspection, there are several large trees that could be cut down that would increase the site distance by at least double that amount and allow the drivers to look through the curve so that that becomes less of a factor. With regard to, you know, the Land Use issues, we’d like to point out that there have been several special permits that have been approved in the Waiakea Uka area, four that I would like to mention. The first is there was a quarry operation that had been approved off of Hoaka Road and was in effect for 15 years. That permit has since been terminated. There has been a, the New Hope Christian Fellowship Church off of Kupulau Road, which was approved, and that church accommodates a membership of, at the time of the application was 800 members, and accommodated services for approximately 500 people. And there was another Special Permit approved off of Ainalako Road for a tree-trimming business; and at the time of that application, that business employed 20 employees, had 15 vehicles, allowed the storage of wood chips, employee parking, repair and maintenance and fuel tanks on the property. There was another Special Permit that was approved off of Ainaola Drive, but that was a much smaller operation for an ice cream manufacturing facility within an, I believe within an existing dwelling that had limitations on the days of operations that really that one really isn’t comparable. But with the exception of that ice cream manufacturing facility, I would venture that the impacts generated by those activities that have been previously approved through a Special Permit process would be comparable or even exceed the impacts generated by Mr. McNicoll’s application. And, again, you know, with the 21 letters of support from surrounding property owners or people that live within the Waiakea Uka community, we believe that that’s an indication that the impacts that his business has generated is not so over-bearing that, you know, they would not be able to support, I mean, there are people living right next door to him that have no objections to this request. ALAMEDA:Okay. Mr. McNicoll, would you like to add anything to that or -? EXHIBIT D 5