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requesting a Special Management Area Use Permit, an after-the-fact Special Management Area Use Permit, to allow the construction of an approximately 2,000 lineal feel pedestrian path and landscaping. The area of this application is within the North Kohala District. More specifically, we are looking at the Akoni Pule Highway running in an east-west direction, we have Hawi Road running in a north-south direction, and the area of the application is outlined in black; this is part of the Pahoa Beach Estates Subdivision. This gives a little closer location map of the properties. We have, from Hawi Road, we have an access road called Uli Road, which has a little cul-de-sac at the end of the road. We are looking at Parcels 66 and 67 that’s identified in your background/recommendation. This is an aerial photo, which again shows Uli Road with the end of the cul-de-sac, the two parcels. We have a dwelling that’s been constructed on the outer parcel. This is the gulch, and the location of the pedestrian access and landscaping area. We also have some other photos, but before I go into those, I just want to give a brief history on this. In March 2003 this location was granted final subdivision for five lots, Subdivision 7640, which created Pahoa Beach Estates Subdivision. Within that subdivision map, there was a pedestrian public access. After this subdivision occurred, there were several violations that occurred with grading of these pedestrian accesses to quite a wide width that seemed to be providing vehicular access. The first one was in December 2003, which was basically a steep road that comes from the applicant’s residence down to the gulch and then this area here down to the beach area. Additionally, in September 2004 there was another violation that was issued; that was actually four separate violations because it involved the previous violation as well as grading of a new pathway from the end of the cul-de-sac to the area where the previous violation occurred, which was approximately 0.3 mile. We’ll be able to show some photos. These site photos were taken in September 2004. This is across the gulch looking towards the applicant’s residence; you can see the pathway that’s been graded down to the Pahoa Beach area. This is the pathway that was graded on the second violation up to the end of the cul-de-sac. Again, these were taken in September 2004. It shows the western portion of the gulch, and shows the width of the road here. This is down by the beach area showing the path continuing on. These photos were taken in November 2005, again, showing the erosion that’s beginning on the cliff side as well as the growth that’s been occurring as far as landscaping. The Planning Director required the applicant to put in what’s called “jute” netting to be able to stabilize the cuts on the first violation; this is, and also to do landscaping, this is part of that requirement. Here is another photo showing that. Again, this shows the landscaping that was starting to come in a year later. These photos were just taken recently in May 2008. This shows the landscaping that’s in. This is the beach. This shows, again, the steep access road from the gulch up to the applicant’s property. We have the other – here is the access coming down; this one goes to the beach area, and then again we show the second violation that occurred on the pathway. The applicant has submitted this after-the- fact permit in response to a requirement in the Notice of Violations to be able to correct this. A second revision of the subdivision map has been approved by the Planning Director, which aligns this new pedestrian access in line with what’s on the ground. There are some conditions to mention. We do have Condition 3, which requires concrete jersey barriers to be put along those steep cuts, so that if anything falls down, it’s going to catch those. There also is Condition 6 requiring public access from Hawi Road to the cul-de-sac and then also to the beach. The Director wanted me to mention Condition 7 – there has been a subdivision that occurred on the properties to the east, and this is in this location, which does have a lateral public EXHIBIT B 2