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so I will ask that you be real specific in your testimony. We have a lot of letters so I’m going ask that you don’t read your letter, ‘cause we’ve already read it; but just speak from your heart and in a concise, as concise as possible, and try not to go off on tangents. If you do, please respect my non-verbal time-out. I’ll bring you right back so we can stay on track. And, also, if you can limit it to about three minutes, that way we’ll get everybody out of here before dark. So, with that, let me take a five-minute recess to just make sure that we get all the testifiers on paper; and if there’s no objection to that, I’d like to do that at this time. Seeing none, five-minute recess. RECESSEDThe Chair called a short recess at 11:26 a.m. RECONVENEDThe meeting reconvened at 11:31 p.m. ALAMEDA:Okay. So it’s little over 11:30 right now and I have a proposal. We have over 27 testifiers and I just wanted to get permission from my fellow Commissioners that I wanted to just hear it all and whenever we end, then we can take lunch. Any objection to that or -? Might be dinner but -.So is there any objection to that? ‘Cause I want to make sure that we honor the folks that are here today. Some of you took off from work and we don’t want to keep you guys any longer than you need to be. So thank you guys for coming. So we’ll just push on through. Agenda Item No. 6, says, “Initiated: Planning Director.” Staff? DARROW:Thank you, Mr. Chairman. At our last Planning Commission meeting, we had testimony in regards to this initiative that has been initiated by the Director. I’d like to just do a little house-cleaning. We’ve submitted to the Commissioners a new second revised Background and Recommendation. It has been distributed to the Commission. I’ll go more into this in a second. Mr. Chairman and Commissioners this hearing was continued from the last Planning Commission meeting in Kona on August 25, 2006 where the Commission heard numerous testimony from the public. Additionally, since our hearing, we’ve received numerous letters, and those have all been passed out to the Commissioners. This morning we have received one letter from Day-Lum Rentals, and I believe the Commissioners have gotten a copy from them. If it’s okay with the Commission, I’m just going to do a short presentation, just reading a short excerpt from the Revised Background so that way we can kind of be on the same page here. ALAMEDA:Sure, Mr. Darrow. Go ahead. DARROW:Thank you. The Planning Director is initiating an amendment to the definition of “family” in the County of Hawai`i Zoning Code. The amendment will address group living facility-type programs that will operate within a single-family dwelling which are licensed and regulated by the Department of Health. The amendment will allow up to eight residents plus any program staff in a group home licensed or certified by the Department of Health. Presently, group homes are limited to five unrelated persons unless they fall under exemptions allowed by the Zoning Code and state law. Within the State Land Use Agricultural District a special permit can be applied for to increase the amount beyond five unrelated persons. These group living programs are meant to be non-institutional and are designed to be operated EXHIBIT D 2