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for school. I’ve never read the Plan as trying to plan where everything would happen in the community, like a 16-child tutoring center after school program.There are all kinds of things that people do in real communities that are of not really, that are not like a 7-Eleven as far as a commercial business, or a gas station, or an office building, or your typical idea of a school. Now if the Department of Education was thinking of putting a school in Paradise Park we would urge them to follow the Paradise Park Master Plan and to put it into one of the 20-acre sites. But you can’t preplan everything; and that’s why in the agricultural area you have the opportunity for special permits. We’ve been, and this is where the scale and the impact of a particular use is really very important. I think that the Department, we’ve been very consistent in trying to get commercial uses of a certain scale into commercial areas. We’ve also supported very small scale kinds of businesses that can and are often operated out of homes. Like we’ve done, we did a special permit for somebody to do a barber shop. You know, they run it out of their home. And this is where the situation in Puna and the Ag areas is really unfortunate because in a residential area, residential zone we have a thing called home occupations. People can do things that are very similar to what is being proposed here in a residential area without going to a board like this and getting a special permit. People have, they can teach, they have hula classes. A home occupation is simply a business that’s run out of someone’s home with a maximum of one employee. There are limits. You can’t have signs, it has to be run within the home; and there are certain kinds of businesses that you can’t do as a home occupation. But one of the things you can do in a home occupation is group instruction. Unfortunately in the whole area of Puna which is, you know, the size of Oahu and now has over 40,000 people there are practically, you know, all the truly residential areas like Paradise Park are in the State Land Use Agricultural District; and our Zoning Code says a home occupation needs a special permit. Okay, be that as it may there they’re properly here for a special permit. But it’s the kind of thing that happens in communities, it happens in neighborhoods. This and having, she’s talking about running a 16- child tutoring center out of her home that she lives in. This is the kind of thing you have to have in a community. This is community building. If you say, well, some day somebody is going to build something on this 20-acre site, first of all, there’s no economic incentive to do something like that for tutoring centers and the like; and you’re really dooming the community to not having these kinds of functions. And the last thing I’d like to say is that, you know, in any special permit we have to look at the impact on surrounding property owners and look at that very carefully. In this case we have two neighbors objecting who don’t live on the street that the traffic, that the cars would come on to thth do the drop-off. The proposed center is on 6, the two neighbors who objected are on 7. We th have in the files at least five residents on 6 who are in favor. There are a couple who I can’t tell th from the letters whether they live on 6 or not. And what I’d like to leave you with is that this is very much the kind of thing we have to have in our communities if we’re going to build real communities. KAISER: Can I read something from the Master Plan to the Commission? WOODWARD: Certainly, go ahead. KAISER: The purpose of the plan is to provide -. IWASHITA: Excuse me, can you be specific about what Master Plan and -? EXHIBIT B 18