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Just for reference, the location of this particular area is within the North Kohala District. More specifically, we are looking along the Mhukona coast. The actual project location is identified with a dot. It is directly across the entrance to the Kohala Ranch Estates. Just to the south would be Kawaihae, and this particular area is located just to the north of that particular location. This is an aerial photo again kind of identifying the project area. And then again we have the entrance to the Kohala Ranch Estates. This is the General Plan for the particular area. Again, we are identifying the project location with a dot. And youÓll notice that the different colors identify the General Plan designation. For this particular property we are looking at yellow as Low-Density Urban and white as Extensive Agriculture, and those are both located on the property. Along the coastline of the entire coast we have a portion of Open General Plan designation. And with that, if we could pass it on to the appli WATANABE: Thank you. Mr. Lim and Mr. Mooers, may I swear you in, please? Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth now before the Planning Commission? LIM: I do. MOOERS: I do. WATANABE: And, well, both of you know the drill, so name and address from each of you cause I guess you are going to shift back and forth. LIM: ThatÓs correct. Steven Lim from Carlsmith at P. O. Box 121, Hilo 96721. MOOERS: Gregory Mooers, P. O. Box 1101, Kamuela, HawaiÒi 96743. WATANABE: Okay, thank you. Are you going to begin, Mr. Lim, with the basic chronology? LIM: Yes, IÓll refresh the people who were involved. I see thereÓre three of the Planning Commission members who sat through many hours of long testimony, and we have two new ones. So welcome to the Kohala LLC continuing saga. We left off, I think, last with the Planning Commission in November of 2008. And all of this started in approximately mid-2007 with the Planning DirectorÓs attempt to downzone the property. What we had are RS-15 zoning, potential total density of about 110 lots. They received an SMA Permit, No. 379, for 50 single family lots in about 1997, and proceeded along with development efforts. One of the prior owners passed away, so they transferred it over afterwards to Kohala LLC who then proceeded to develop its plans. And as the members who sat on the Commission previously know, we went through 2007 and 2008 in numerous procedural battles in an effort to try to maintain our entitlements. We attempted to negotiate with the Planning Director at that time, but we were not successful. And in the end what happened was the rezoning that was proposed by the Director went forward to the County Council for 5-acre zoning. When it was up at the County Council, Pete Hoffmann changed it to 15-acre zoning. And at that point, I think, the Mayor and the Planning Director felt EXHIBIT B 2