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The cost savings in terms of tax dollars is really dramatic. Community-based intervention services such as the homes that we provide here in Hawai`i County is approximately 10 percent of the funding required for institutional care. So we are respectfully requesting that the current zoning laws be amended to specify that eight or fewer persons who reside in a group home be allowed. Thank you very much for allowing me to testify. ALAMEDA:Thank you. Any questions for the testifier? Sure, Commissioner McCall? MCCALL:On your facility up in Kaumana, would you be willing to go through and get a special permit to allow, you know, go through a public hearing to allow that to have more than five? MICHELL:I wouldn’t have any objection to that, although I can say that we are certified by Adult Mental Health Division, we’re monitored very closely. If there are any discrepancies when they do do their observations, there are plans of corrections and so forth. But we certainly wouldn’t have any objection to that, no. ALAMEDA:Commissioner Watanabe? WATANABE:Yeah. But as a follow-up to Mr. McCall’s question, I believe special use permits are only permitted in ag areas; and I’m not sure if that area is in a ag district. Am I correct in that? YUEN:You said Kaumana or Kaumana City? MICHELL:It’s up at Kaumana on Amau Road, A-m-a-u. Maybe my pronunciation is incorrect. It’s Upper Kaumana. YUEN:I don’t know that area. Norman, what do you think? Is that State Land Use Urban? Amau Road, I don’t know where that is. ALAMEDA:Across 7-Eleven? YUEN:Sorry, where? HAYASHI:Is that in the vicinity of Wilder Road? MICHELL:Yes, it is. Yes, Wilder Road I believe it is, yeah. HAYASHI:Then that, if I’m not mistaken, that area could be zoned for Single-Family Residential use. YUEN:How big is the lot? MICHELL:I’m not sure the exact dimensions of the lot. I know the dimensions of the house, approximately 2,500 square feet. EXHIBIT D 10